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1	root	1.481	There was a longstanding meme in the meetings (and on comp.std.c) that "if
2			you don't understand the reasoning behing something in the C Standard, the
3			answer is the IBM AS400".
4
5			[Clive D.W. Feather in <Y1onchv4w2mQsJDQ@davros.org>]
6			%
7	root	1.480	MRT sagt:
8			29. Juli 2022 um 17:02 Uhr
9
10			Rein spekulativ angenommen: was wären denn mögliche Konsequenzen wenn
11			heraus kommen würde, dass ein EU-Mitgliedsstaat (z.B. Ungarn) Spionage
12			gegen die EU betreibt?
13
14			René sagt:
15			29. Juli 2022 um 20:30 Uhr
16
17			Suche Dir das stumpfste Schwert aus.
18
19			[https://netzpolitik.org/2022/pegasus-ausschuss-eu-kommission-bestaetigt-hacking-spuren-auf-geraeten/]
20			%
21	root	1.479	Apparently "zork" was a nonsense word used at MIT for the current
22			uninstalled program in progress, and stuck. Just as this document uses
23			the term "Z-machine" for both the machine and its loaded program (which
24			is also sometimes called the "story file"), so ZIP (Zork Implementation
25			Program) was used to mean either the interpreter or the object code it
26			interpreted. Code was written in ZIL (Zork Implementation Language),
27			which was derived from MDL (informally called "muddle"), a particularly
28			unhelpful form of LISP. It was then compiled by ZILCH to assembly code
29			which was passed to ZAP to make the ZIP.
30
31			[http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/appd.html]
32			%
33	root	1.478	"How We Test Power Supply Units"
34
35			In case a PSU explodes [...], we note this in the review and subtract the
36			corresponding performance points from its overall performance score.
37
38			[https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-we-test-psu,4042-12.html]
39			%
40	root	1.477	22:15:54 <Mikachu> the whole thing didn't strictly crash, but the game used --in-process-gpu and the gpu
41			process called exit when it couldn't init the gpu
42			22:16:01 <Mikachu> without that the game ran in software at 1fps just fine
43			%
44			Whatever feature of the STE you want to use, it will either not work as
45			planned or require special treatment. If it works as planned and does not
46			require special treatment, it will definetly not work on the TT or the
47			Falcon.
48
49			[http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Atari_STE_FAQ_compiled_by_The_Paranoid_/_Paradox]
50			%
51	root	1.476	In 1729, how could they know where the north pole was when it was only
52			discovered in 1909?
53			-- Ebon Kim, Flat-Earth Youtuber
54			%
55	root	1.475	Fun with the north korean Red Star OS:
56
57			It does have some components that prevent the normal user from
58			editing/deleting various protected files (securityd, scnprc and opprc). We
59			call it “oppression” if we’re speaking of DPRK and “defending your
60			privacy and security” if we’re speaking of Apple. Two sides of the
61			same coin, I guess, depends on which side you’re on.
62
63			[https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/]
64			%
65	root	1.474	Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam clarified in Parliament
66			during the Committee of Supply debate on Mar. 3 that inmates in Singapore
67			do not need to thank prison staff after being caned.
68
69			[https://mothership.sg/2022/03/no-requirement-thank-guard-after-caning/]
70			%
71			The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the
72			HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with
73			preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any
74			basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only
75			the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at
76			improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the
77			IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every
78			principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping
79			Google's initiative.
80
81			Poul-Henning Kamp, in https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=27162
82			%
83			[HGST engineer, taking about drive reliability]
84
85			we don't want to test it, because that costs time, we just wait for the
86			market feedback and put that into our calculations.
87			%
88	root	1.473	[wdleng.c in unix V6 iolib]
89
90			wdleng ()
91			/* returns number of bits in a machine integer */
92			/* written so kernighan can tell where he is running */
93			{
94			int k, leng;
95			k = leng = 1;
96			while (k =<< 1)
97	root	1.476	leng++;
98	root	1.473	return (leng);
99			}
100			%
101	root	1.470	Dana Angluin's List of Proof Techniques
102
103			Proof by example:
104			The author gives only the case n=2 and suggests that it contains most
105			of the ideas of the general proof.
106
107			Proof by intimidation:
108			'Trivial.'
109
110			Proof by vigorous handwaving:
111			Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
112
113			Proof by cumbersome notation:
114			Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
115
116			Proof by exhaustion:
117			An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful.
118
119			Proof by omission:
120			'The reader may easily supply the details.'
121			'The other 253 cases are analogous.'
122			'...'
123
124			Proof by obfuscation:
125			A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically
126			related statements.
127
128			Proof by wishful citation:
129			The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem
130			from the literature to support his claims.
131
132			Proof by funding:
133			How could three different government agencies be wrong?
134
135			Proof by eminent authority:
136			'I saw Karp in the elevator and he said it was probably NP-complete.'
137
138			Proof by personal communication:
139			'Eight-dimensional colored cycle stripping is NP-complete' [Karp,
140			personal commmunication].
141
142			Proof by reduction to the wrong problem:
143			'To see that infinite-dimensional colored cycle stripping is decidable,
144			we reduce it to the halting problem.'
145
146			Proof by reference to inaccessible literature:
147			The author cites a simple corollary of a theorem to be found in a
148			privately circulated memoir of the Slovenian Philological Society,
149			1883.
150
151			Proof by importance:
152			A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.
153
154			Proof by accumulated evidence:
155			Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.
156
157			Proof by cosmology:
158			The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular
159			for proofs of the existence of God.
160
161			Proof by mutual reference:
162			In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from Theorem 3 in reference
163			B, which is shown to follow from Corollary 6.2 in reference C, which is
164			an easy consequence of Theorem 5 in reference A.
165
166			Proof by meta-proof:
167			A method is given to construct the desired proof. The correctness of
168			the method is proved by any of these techniques.
169
170			Proof by picture:
171			A more convincing form of proof by example. Combines well with proof by omission.
172
173			Proof by vehement assertion:
174			It is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience.
175
176			Proof by ghost reference:
177			Nothing even remotely resembling the cited theorem appears in the reference given.
178
179			Proof by forward reference:
180			Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author, which is
181			often not as forthcoming as at first.
182
183			Proof by semantic shift:
184			Some standard but inconvenient definitions are changed for the
185			statement of the result.
186
187			Proof by appeal to intuition:
188			Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.
189
190			Proof by elimination of the counterexample:
191			'Assume for the moment that the hypothesis is true. Now, let's
192			suppose we find a counterexample. So what? QED.' (from Don Woods
193			<DON@SU-AI.ARPA>)
194
195			[https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/proofs.html]
196			%
197	root	1.469	polkit: Similar to sudo but much more complicated
198
199			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
200			%
201			D-Bus: IPC, but complicated. Why do we need XML schema files, why is there
202			sometimes / notation and sometimes ., and so on. IPC is a good thing, but
203			this implementation is too complicated!
204
205			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
206			%
207			Pipewire: Solution in search of a problem you don't have without Wayland?
208
209			[https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies]
210			%
211			In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.
212
213			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
214			%
215			The Wayland "reference implementation" is a small set of libraries that
216			can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries
217			currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll. In
218			pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the
219			patches haven't been accepted upstream. Wayland is written with the
220			assumption of Linux to the extent that every client application tends to
221			#include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's designers didn't see the need
222			to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse button IDs.
223
224			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
225			%
226	root	1.468	As best I can tell (from the long and unsatisfactory thread I pursed on
227			the Wayland Developers list some little time ago), the core issue with
228			Wayland and Color is social, not technical:
229
230			1. none of the key developers have the faintest idea what Color or Color
231			Management is, and (worse):
232
233			2. they have no idea why it would be at all important.
234
235			[https://discuss.pixls.us/t/wayland-color-management/10804/4]
236			%
237			> (isn't it the case with ifconfig vs. ip already?)
238
239			Wayland is more like they created ip but named the command ifconfig, then
240			told you to go fix your scripts.
241
242			If the Wayland developers had sense, they would have carefully considered
243			how to make it a seemless transition for developers. Instead, they decided
244			they were the ultimate authority on software engineering and screw
245			developers, they are all doing it wrong anyways.
246
247			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3862027]
248			%
249			Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every
250			client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's
251			designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse
252			button IDs.
253
254			[https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and]
255			%
256			... a basic barebones TWM for X11 works better and offers more features
257			than Weston which contains ~20 times more code
258
259			[https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277#gistcomment-3526530]
260			%
261			"It is true that Wayland somewhat sucks ass" -- The Lutris founder
262			[The Lutris founder quoting himself]
263			%
264			Eine solche Regulierung schafft man in Deutschland nur für wirklich
265			wichtige Themen wie zur Durchsetzung der Bereitstellung von Schnittstellen
266			für die Telekommunikationsüberwachung. Bei so irrelevanten Themen wie
267			dem Katastrophenschutz und der Alarmierung der Bevölkerung braucht man
268			den Markt nicht zu regulieren.
269
270			[https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20210719-smscb/]
271			From: Stephen Searle
272			Date: 18 Mar 1998, 09:00:00
273			Subject: A Clockwork Nethacker
274
275			What if the next version of Nethack has a new class based on the Droogs
276			of Anthony Burgess' novel (and later Stanley Kubrick film) "A Clockwork
277			Orange"?
278
279			I imagine the language would be radically different, like the
280			Samurai-speak only much, much more so...
281
282			Your rookers glow red -more-
283			You tolchock the floating glazzy real horrorshow! -more-
284			The floating glazzy appears bezoomny.
285			You brosay your britva at the floating glazzy -more-
286			The floating glazzy is oobivatted!
287
288			Ugh - that Pishcha was rotten! -more-
289			You feel a malenky bit bolnoy.
290
291			You govoreet with the charlie of Bog -more-
292			The charlie asks you for some cutter for the temple.
293
294			The devotchka flashes her groodies at you -more-
295			"Take off your platties, they're in the way" -more-
296			Raz stands still while you and the devotchka lie in each other's rookers...
297			(or:)
298			"You're such a bolshy chelloveck, I wish..."
299
300			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you!
301			Your shlem blocks the attack to your gulliver.
302			The rassoodock-flayer tolchocks you real horrorshow!
303			Your brain is eaten! You feel gloopy!
304
305			An enormous dook appears next to you!
306			You are poogly to snuffit and unable to itty!
307
308			You slooshy someone cursing prestoopnicks.
309
310			You ittied from the shop without pretty pollying! -more-
311			You crasted 100 gollies worth of veshches! -more-
312			A millicent's whistle zvooks -more-
313			The Keystone rozzes are after you!
314
315
316			Heh... I think I will have to write a little text filter for Nethack :-)
317
318			-SJS
319
320			[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/3P5KdEPru6o/m/UxXyLvAsJUwJ]
321			%
322			"Validity of journal" is not an argument from authority fallacy, it is an
323			assessment of the prior on source quality.
324			%
325	root	1.467	You know what they say though, if the punishment for a crime is a fee
326			then it’s only a crime for the poor.
327			%
328	root	1.466	[https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/]
329
330			In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be
331			periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never
332			used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or
333			data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files
334			will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some
335			time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone
336			number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think
337			are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over
338			time. There is no other significance to these files.
339			%
340	root	1.465	"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's
341			life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy
342			that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,
343			leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
344			deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
345			- John Rogers
346			%
347	root	1.464	The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt
348			witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are
349			silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group — as if by magic —
350			become witches.
351
352			– Bret Weinstein
353			%
354	root	1.463	Looting is transition to freedom.
355			- Rumsfeld 2003
356			%
357	root	1.462	I’m adding a new favorite Randroid argument to my list:
358
359			1) "You disagree with me, therefore you don’t understand Rand’s ‘philosophy’."
360
361			2) "You didn’t REALLY read her books and essays. Go read them again… you still disagree?" (defer back to 1)
362
363			3) Angry name calling (always a favorite)
364
365			4)!! "Read Rand’s disciples, they surely knew better what Rand REALLY meant." (Last line of defense when 1,2,3 fail)
366
367			[commenter at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/the-system-that-wasnt-there-ayn-rands-failed-philosophy-and-why-it-matters/]
368			%
369	root	1.461	Doubly-linked lists are hard
370			- a rust tutorial
371			%
372	root	1.460	As someone who has been acquainted with a surprisingly large number of
373			people who write fantasy, I can tell you that the difference between
374			fantasy and reality is that fantasy has to make sense.
375
376			[Tyvor Winn, https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2019/07/fire-breathing-dinosaurs.html]
377			%
378			The overarching theme of the code of conduct has always been Be Nice and
379			that has been problematic for a long time.
380
381			[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334058/are-there-specific-issues-with-unwelcoming-behavior-toward-lgbtq-persons-on-stac/]
382			%
383	root	1.459	GNU Powered it
384			GPL Protected it
385			GOD Blessed it
386
387			[from Nala Ginrut's mail signature]
388			%
389	root	1.458	a friend once told me that "ex-mother-in-law-to-be" was the most wonderful
390			kinship term she'd ever heard.
391
392			[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/tense.html]
393			%
394			> I have long considered that the BRs were written by the in-group, for
395			> the in-group, and do not adequately call out the expected processes for
396			> an outsider wanting to join the in-group.
397
398			I don't agree.
399
400			> The outsiders sometimes struggle not because they are trying to
401			> accomplish anything of wrong intent, but because the step by step path
402			> is not as clear as it could be.
403
404			As an outsider, it's true that you are expected to know how to be a
405			trustworthy CA. The ecosystem is not designed to help you to learn how
406			to be trustworthy - the ecosystem does not improve from having more
407			applicants who lack that knowledge - and so yes, the baseline expectation
408			is that applying CAs are operated beyond reproach.
409
410			[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262]
411			[darkmatter uae trying to get a root certificate for nefarious purposes]
412			%
413			> that way you can adapt your own UID allocation to reliably avoid that range.
414
415			That is my major issue with systemd: That it postulates that everybody
416			else shall adapt to its conventions, w/o configurability, even if there
417			other conventions exist for a very long time.
418
419			[https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/]
420			%
421			static void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(void) __dead;
422
423			[minix/sbin/shutdown sources]
424			%
425	root	1.457	However, as you can imagine, this is a terrible idea for some zones. If
426			you could walk the .gov zone, you could learn every US government agency
427			and government agency portal.
428
429			[wow, it's terrible if people could learn about every US government
430			agency? of the people, for the people, no?]
431
432			[https://blog.cloudflare.com/black-lies/]
433			%
434			Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.
435
436			[hollycrap in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1016]
437			%
438			The theory of gravity explaining our solar system, can easily be disproved
439			as objects that only had attractive force towards each other would end up
440			smashing into each other, sooner or later.
441
442			[aa5 in https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1957]
443			%
444			Windows 98 "SE" "Suckers Edition"
445			Windows "ME" Mistake Edition
446			Windows "NT" Not to Terrible
447			Windows 2000 ahhhhh! A good OS!
448			Windows "XP" eXtra Problems
449			%
450	root	1.456	Instead of banning every word out there, we should make the mental effort
451			to do better than the political correctness movement that stops at the
452			surface. So, let’s call it master-slave, and instead make a call for US,
453			where a sizable black population is very poor, to have free healthcare,
454			to have cops that are less biased against non-white people, to stop death
455			penalty. This makes really a difference.
456
457			[http://antirez.com/news/122]
458			%
459			"MASTER/Slave" is ungood crimethinkful oldspeak. plusgood rectify unword.
460			Is Minitrue doubleplusgoodwork truthwise. chocorat anyone?
461
462			[https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692#issuecomment-44847465]
463			%
464	root	1.455	Somebody should tell EU, 1984 was not an instruction manual.
465
466			[BhishmPitamah, in https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9f9za4/europe_just_voted/]
467			%
468	root	1.454	[supposedly from the firmware update script for certain tesla car models]
469
470			# We should have some way here of keeping the car parked. What if
471			# they try to drive off while we're in the middle of an upgrade?
472
473			# We should also have a mutex around everything that follows. What if
474			# unpack.sh gets triggered on the same tarball twice? This is more of
475			# a problem now that we might be deferring installation.
476
477			# We should also have a recovery system. What if we remove the
478			# tarball filename but this process is killed before it can complete?
479
480			[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3862643&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=87#post]
481			%
482	root	1.453	[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor]
483
484			Vim 15.2%
485			Emacs 3.8%
486
487			[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments]
488
489			Vim 26.1%
490			Emacs 5.2%
491			%
492	root	1.452	Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
493
494			Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
495
496			R! /dir/.* destroys root.
497
498			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?"
499
500			Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
501
502			Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
503
504			Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
505
506			Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
507
508			'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
509
510			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."
511
512			'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
513
514			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721]
515			%
516			[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques]
517
518			>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on
519			>>> their own servers.
520			>>
521			>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!)
522			>
523			> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing.
524
525			[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2]
526			%
527	root	1.451	The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome.
528
529			[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing
530			them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea]
531			%
532	root	1.450	Chronology of Significant Events
533			================================
534
535	root	1.449	November 2002
536
537			Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding
538			hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough
539			treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant.
540
541			---
542
543			Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to
544			dehydration and fatigue.
545
546			---
547
548			Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with
549			interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily
550
551			---
552
553			Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs
554
555			November 19 2200 hrs
556			guard check - Rahman is alive.
557
558			2300 hrs
559			guard check - Rahman is alive.
560
561			November 20 0400 hrs
562			guard check - Rahman is alive.
563
564			0800 hrs
565			guard check - Rahman is alive.
566
567			1000 hrs
568			guard check - Rahman is dead.
569
570			[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation]
571			%
572	root	1.448	In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back
573			when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making
574			the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d
575			intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream
576			through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the
577			proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her
578			music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured
579			another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only
580			be a better place.
581
582			[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466]
583			%
584	root	1.447	> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I
585			> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any
586			> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was
587			> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads
588			> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time
589			> in technology.
590
591			-P
592			Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong.
593
594			[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811]
595			%
596			> Simon Cooke wrote:
597			> shrugs I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific.
598
599			I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection.
600
601			[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563]
602			%
603	root	1.446	Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555
604			for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random
605			number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum
606			of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is
607			55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555
608
609			[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/]
610			%
611	root	1.445	Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or
612			anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes
613			the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the
614			hashtag #sexualassault.
615
616			[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/]
617			%
618	root	1.444	From: Linus Torvalds
619
620			And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
621			trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.
622
623			[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577]
624			%
625			> How is the old way a problem?
626
627			That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known
628			things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks
629			it's smarter than you.
630
631			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557]
632			%
633	root	1.443	Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is
634			dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows
635			better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it
636			less lethal.
637
638			[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591]
639			%
640	root	1.442	From: Richard Stallman
641
642			[...]
643
644			> then that sounds like a layering violation.
645
646			The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU.
647			If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one,
648			we won't let "layering" get in the way.
649			%
650	root	1.470	"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to "Teyrnas
651			Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or "Rìoghachd Aonaichte
652			Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to "Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are
653			also now legal names for the UK.
654	root	1.441
655			[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca]
656			%
657			From: Russ Allbery
658			To: tz@iana.org
659			Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
660
661			> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break
662			> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented
663			> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to
664			> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along
665			> with the documentation on change impact including budget,
666			> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production
667			> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone."
668
669			A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects
670			and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine.
671
672			It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow
673			any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a
674			contractual relationship with that requires following those rules.
675			Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to
676			jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through.
677
678			It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software
679			project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software
680			project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the
681			form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining
682			private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and
683			adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company
684			(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the
685			entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer
686			certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal.
687
688			Some companies don't want to spend that money, and try to do it on the
689			cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free
690			software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software
691			maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not
692			carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be
693			weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free
694			software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by
695			far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes,
696			whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software
697			maintainer.
698			%
699	root	1.440	[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names]
700
701			They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally,
702			such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if
703			an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term
704			"BST", but no:
705			http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498
706			%
707			To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
708			Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone
709
710			Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
711			> When can we expect the updated version
712
713			About three weeks ago.
714			%
715	root	1.439	[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water
716			not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
717			%
718			[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite.
719
720			[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html]
721			%
722	root	1.438	Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich
723			was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an
724			neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off.
725
726			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2]
727			%
728			From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
729
730			Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
731
732			> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second"
733			[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4]
734
735			\| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of
736			\| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of
737			\| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day.
738
739			Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a
740			full day per year.
741			%
742	root	1.437	Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
743			de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI.
744			[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.]
745			%
746			File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
747			-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
748			%
749			Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect
750			storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed
751			me - lately?".
752			-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective
753			Seagate HDD's, Class of '94.
754
755			[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885]
756			%
757			I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly
758			fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized
759			arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a
760			variable-sized array as the last field of the struct.
761
762			I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work
763			because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work
764			because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may
765			your lives be a living hell.
766
767			[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2]
768			%
769	root	1.436	Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.
770			[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident]
771			%
772			Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming
773			for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me
774			out with a problem I'm having?
775
776			Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask.
777
778			Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help.
779
780			Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I
781			want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements
782			from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for
783			doing this, I just can't find it anywhere...
784
785			Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :)
786
787			Newbie: Oh, cool. :)
788
789			Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax.
790
791			Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list).
792			[http://c2.com/]
793			%
794			Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for
795			controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all
796			right-parenthesis.
797			[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp]
798			%
799			Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of
800			yourself?
801			Software development is the career for you!
802
803			[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176]
804			%
805	root	1.435	[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
806			-- Richard Dawkins
807			%
808			There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard
809			choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed,
810			and security.
811
812			[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html]
813			%
814			[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"]
815
816			We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and
817			used for the purposes for which they both are designed.
818			-— National Security Agency, June 1992
819			%
820			In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the
821			exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not
822			known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time
823			this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography,
824			they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an
825			undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F.
826
827			[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html]
828			%
829			tiny hsv2rgb
830			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;}
831
832			vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) {
833			return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)v;
834			}
835			%
836			Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :)
837			Only Java makes it possible!
838
839			[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1]
840			%
841			'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and
842			generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is
843			extremely poettering''
844			%
845			"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1."
846			-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs
847			%
848			"I drank what?!"
849			-- Socrates
850			%
851			It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be
852			implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now
853			400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else.
854
855			Jon Callas in
856			http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html
857			%
858			"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
859			-- Conway's Law
860			%
861			The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system
862			(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version
863			of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it
864			because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced
865			to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to
866			have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered
867			untangling this mess right now so).
868
869			[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html]
870			%
871			Option "NoPM" "boolean"
872			Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM
873			enabled on platforms that support it.
874			[xorg.conf(5)]
875			%
876			> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does.
877			> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that
878			> would work on code.
879
880			Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me
881			like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature
882			and language with the idea to let them start writing novels.
883			[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org]
884			%
885	root	1.434	[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore]
886			As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that
887			hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At
888			the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock
889			option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble
890			a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in
891			that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all —
892			there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or
893			the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it.
894			%
895			Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to
896			acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is
897			sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to
898			work around your bugs, and say that we should have done so from the
899			very beginning.
900			[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384]
901			%
902			systemd creates user session information in
903			/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would
904			only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact
905			that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only
906			allowed one session per user.
907			[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html]
908			%
909	root	1.433	> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes
910			> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than
911			> about anything else.
912			>
913			> Why is it like that?
914
915			Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill.
916
917			[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574]
918			%
919			[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality]
920
921			>> However, there are a number of serious problems:
922			>>
923			>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is
924			>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is
925			>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they
926			>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work.
927			>
928			> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way.
929
930			That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer.
931			The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible.
932			%
933			(partial) Beaufort Table
934			Name # km/h (min) m/s (min)
935			Calm 0 0 0
936			Light Air 1 1.1 0.3
937			Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6
938			Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4
939			Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5
940			Fresh Breeze 5 29 8
941			Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8
942			Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9
943			Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2
944			Strong Gale 9 75 20.8
945			%
946			"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)."
947			- random imdb forum quote excerpt
948			%
949			"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure
950			sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett]
951			%
952			The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his
953			profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and
954			suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always
955			on the cards.
956			%
957			[random comment from amule sources]
958			// trust noone ;-)
959			// lol, useless comment but made me lmao
960			// wtf you guys are weird.
961			%
962	root	1.432	Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
963			- Kin Hubbard
964			%
965			[random .sig]
966			I'm a muslim.
967
968			No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
969			%
970			[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
971			of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
972			before.
973
974			[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
975			%
976			<imho>
977
978			BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
979			Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
980			Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
981			Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
982
983			ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
984			Java - public static void not fun.
985			C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
986			C - usually not fun.
987
988			What about modern scripting languages?
989
990			JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
991			Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
992			Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
993
994			</imho>
995
996			[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
997			%
998			"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
999			Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
1000			%
1001
1002			* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
1003			*
1004			* This routine sets the specified display mode.
1005
1006			n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
1007			[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
1008			%
1009			# The user is always right.
1010			if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
1011			[autoconf]
1012			%
1013			from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
1014
1015			/*
1016			* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
1017			* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
1018			* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
1019			* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
1020			* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
1021			* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
1022			* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
1023			* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
1024			* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
1025			* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
1026			* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
1027			* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
1028			*/
1029			%
1030			Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
1031			was new to me:
1032
1033			switch(c)
1034			{
1035			case 'x': base=16; type \|= 4; if(0) {
1036			case 'o': base= 8; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1037			case 'u': base=10; type \|= 4; } if(0) {
1038			case 'd': base=-10; }
1039			switch(type)
1040			{
1041			case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
1042			case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
1043			case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
1044			case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
1045			case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
1046			case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
1047			default:val=0; break;
1048			}
1049			cp = __numout(val,base);
1050			if(0) {
1051			case 's':
1052			cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
1053			}
1054			%
1055			Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
1056			is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
1057			timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
1058			at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
1059			extra second and see how far you get :-)
1060			[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
1061			%
1062			> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
1063			> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
1064			> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
1065			> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
1066			>
1067			> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
1068			> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
1069
1070			It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
1071			infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
1072
1073			[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
1074			%
1075			It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
1076			should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
1077			heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
1078
1079			Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
1080
1081			http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
1082			%
1083			(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
1084			whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
1085			know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
1086			beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
1087			nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
1088			settings)
1089
1090			http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
1091			%
1092			How do I deal with memory leaks?
1093
1094			By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
1095
1096			[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
1097			%
1098			This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
1099			ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
1100
1101			http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
1102			%
1103			The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
1104			recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
1105			hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
1106			Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
1107
1108			The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
1109			public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
1110			justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
1111			children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
1112			Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
1113			rewarded for their creativity.
1114
1115			Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
1116			will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
1117			that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
1118			librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
1119			would never have made it in the first place.
1120
1121			http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
1122			%
1123			"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
1124			future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
1125			%
1126			Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
1127			it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
1128			Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
1129			capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
1130			to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
1131
1132			http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
1133			%
1134			"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
1135			Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
1136			- Mohandas Gandhi
1137			%
1138			"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
1139			the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
1140			handiwork of the Lord."
1141			- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
1142			%
1143			Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
1144
1145			I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
1146			Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
1147			must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
1148
1149			Scientific scrutiny works like this:
1150			Scientist A publishes results.
1151
1152			Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
1153			and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
1154			x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
1155
1156			A: x, y, and z are such and such.
1157			B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
1158			sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
1159			A: ...
1160			B: You fraud!
1161
1162			Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
1163
1164			A publishes results.
1165
1166			B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
1167			Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
1168			A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
1169			article. Did you have something specific in mind?
1170			B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
1171			experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
1172
1173			-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
1174			[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
1175			%
1176			[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
1177			them because they need the money to operate]
1178
1179			"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
1180			readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
1181			readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
1182			site or its bottom line."
1183			%
1184			"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
1185			the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
1186			who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
1187			enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
1188			that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
1189			adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
1190			contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
1191			being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
1192			their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
1193			are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
1194			Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
1195			– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
1196			%
1197			Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
1198
1199			Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
1200
1201			Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
1202			%
1203			["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
1204
1205			>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
1206			>>>> and the beating of children?
1207			>>>
1208			>>> Subjugation of women...
1209			>>
1210			>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
1211			>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
1212			>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
1213			>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
1214			>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
1215			>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
1216			>> shake partner.
1217			>
1218			> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
1219			>
1220			> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
1221			> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
1222			> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
1223			> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
1224			>
1225
1226			As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
1227			was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
1228			traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
1229			of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
1230			really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
1231			those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
1232			and your wife.
1233			%
1234			Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
1235			cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
1236			still kill you. - arestheblue
1237			%
1238			Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
1239			abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
1240			specifications for GSS-API.
1241
1242			It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
1243			the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
1244
1245			There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
1246			Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
1247
1248			[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
1249			%
1250			[from the minix 3 users guide]
1251
1252			ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
1253			%
1254			[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
1255
1256			During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
1257			[...]
1258			You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
1259			complaintant to guess this is true.
1260			%
1261			"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
1262			- Ken Thompson.
1263			%
1264			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
1265
1266			"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
1267
1268			Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
1269			universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
1270			source code excerpt:
1271
1272			int sn()
1273			{
1274			char pwr;
1275
1276			int input1 = 0;
1277			double output1 = 0;
1278
1279			system("clear");
1280			cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl;
1281			cin>>input1;
1282			output1 = (sin(input1));
1283			cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl;
1284			cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl;
1285			cin>>pwr;
1286			if(pwr == 'a')
1287			sq();
1288			if(pwr == 'm')
1289			system("pause");
1290
1291			}
1292			%
1293			It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
1294			full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
1295
1296			[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
1297
1298			http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
1299			%
1300			From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
1301			app for me" department:
1302
1303			From: Evan LeCompte
1304
1305			Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
1306			Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
1307			developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
1308			%
1309			"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
1310			a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
1311			indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
1312
1313			http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
1314			%
1315			"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
1316			Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
1317			– Steve Jobs[47]
1318
1319			"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
1320			– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
1321			the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
1322			%
1323			The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
1324			-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
1325			%
1326			Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
1327			From: Patrick Horgan
1328			Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
1329			To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
1330
1331			Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
1332			writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
1333			documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
1334			by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
1335			posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
1336			the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
1337
1338			[...]
1339			%
1340	root	1.431	"Logic has made me hated among men"
1341			— Peter Abelard
1342			%
1343			A man said to the universe:
1344			"Sir I exist!"
1345			"However," replied the universe,
1346			"The fact has not created in me
1347	root	1.432	A sense of obligation."
1348			- Steven Crane
1349	root	1.431	%
1350			He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
1351
1352			He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
1353
1354			He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
1355
1356			He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
1357
1358			– Sanskrit Saying
1359			%
1360			[anonymised discussion]
1361			AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
1362			Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
1363			%
1364			[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
1365
1366	root	1.432	Additions to the WGL Specification
1367	root	1.431
1368			First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
1369			existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
1370			appear.
1371			%
1372			"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
1373			sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
1374			- Douglas Adams
1375			%
1376			I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
1377			[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
1378			%
1379	root	1.462	"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
1380			lose both, and deserve neither" -- Thomas Jefferson
1381	root	1.431	%
1382			"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
1383			in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
1384			- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
1385			http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
1386			%
1387			Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
1388			%
1389			"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
1390			- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
1391			President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
1392			Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
1393			Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
1394			%
1395			It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
1396			programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
1397			or her career.
1398			[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
1399			%
1400			It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
1401			as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
1402			Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
1403			%
1404			I LOVE YOU
1405			["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
1406			%
1407			General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
1408			the air impeller.
1409
1410			Alan Cox
1411			%
1412			"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
1413			with a minimum computer science background."
1414			%
1415			From: Eric Sosman
1416			Newsgroups: comp.std.c
1417			Subject: Re: about graphics
1418
1419			prince wrote:
1420			> how to get command over graphics in c language?
1421
1422			#include <stdio.h>
1423			int main(void) {
1424			puts("graphics\rcommand");
1425			return 0;
1426			}
1427			%
1428			I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
1429			amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
1430			wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
1431			detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
1432			%
1433			[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
1434
1435	root	1.471	While the 2^128 step search [takes] a very long time indeed,
1436	root	1.431	it still is a constant-time attack.
1437			%
1438			"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
1439			-- Karl Joseph Simrock
1440			%
1441			From: David Damerell
1442
1443			Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>:
1444			>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
1445			>caps to make it different.
1446
1447			Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
1448			painful but will take less typing.
1449			%
1450			Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
1451			of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
1452			compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
1453
1454			Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
1455			%
1456			From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
1457
1458			> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
1459			> free than the BSD.
1460			>
1461			> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
1462
1463			The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
1464			by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
1465			%
1466			[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
1467
1468			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1469			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1470			from incompatible pointer type
1471			State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF , struct CV *,
1472			struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1473			makes pointer from integer without a cast
1474			State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void ()(struct CoroSLF ,
1475			struct CV , struct SV *, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
1476			%
1477			The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
1478			people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
1479			convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
1480			rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
1481			not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
1482			by society to accomplish certain specific things.
1483
1484			[Chandon Seldon]
1485			%
1486			[Wikipedia]
1487			Differences between vi and Emacs
1488
1489			The neutrality of this article is disputed.
1490			%
1491			[lost the reference]
1492			Remember that openssl is generally the upper
1493			bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
1494			%
1495			"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
1496			to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
1497			elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
1498			%
1499			[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
1500
1501			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1502			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1503			Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
1504			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1505			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1506
1507			well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
1508			ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
1509			have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
1510			working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
1511			your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
1512			yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
1513			piss on your leg.
1514
1515			?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1516			maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
1517			spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
1518
1519			[then, a day later]
1520
1521			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1522			From: puezalb024@aol.com
1523			Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
1524			To: schmorp@schmorp.de
1525			X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
1526
1527			just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
1528			aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
1529			your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
1530			previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
1531			all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
1532			quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
1533			response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
1534			fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
1535			copies n post em on your walls too buddy
1536
1537
1538			-----Original Message-----
1539			From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
1540			To: puezalb024@aol.com
1541			Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
1542			Subject: Re: fcrack help
1543
1544
1545
1546			On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
1547	root	1.432	>
1548	root	1.431	> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
1549
1550			I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
1551
1552			Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
1553			I hope you don't object :)
1554			%
1555			>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
1556			>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
1557
1558			You made my day
1559			%
1560			[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
1561
1562			Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
1563			implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
1564			the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
1565
1566			Linus
1567			%
1568			The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
1569
1570			From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de>
1571
1572			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 ...
1573
1574			[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
1575
1576			As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
1577			emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
1578			when sending emails to other people:
1579			http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
1580
1581			[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
1582
1583			[mail quoted with permission btw.]
1584			%
1585			* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
1586			<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
1587			<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those
1588			<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
1589			<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :)
1590			%
1591			I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
1592			be used if run as administrator in windows.
1593
1594			Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com>
1595			%
1596			[on italy]
1597
1598			#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
1599
1600			@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
1601			majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
1602			wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
1603			only politicized, but also spectacularized.
1604
1605			Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
1606			corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
1607			by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
1608			funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
1609			suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
1610			on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
1611
1612			http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
1613
1614			Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
1615			during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1616			1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
1617			from fascism period.
1618
1619			We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
1620			cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
1621			them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
1622			author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
1623			song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
1624			created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
1625			royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
1626			they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
1627			SIAE.
1628
1629			We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
1630			code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
1631			you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
1632			elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
1633			explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
1634			explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
1635			your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
1636			electronic ones
1637
1638			#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
1639
1640			Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
1641			don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
1642			(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
1643			CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
1644			based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
1645			western country.
1646
1647			I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
1648			very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
1649			but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
1650			elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
1651			deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
1652			Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
1653			laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
1654			innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
1655			also the governments of "center-left".
1656
1657			Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
1658
1659			If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
1660			great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
1661			without any restriction.
1662
1663			Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
1664			and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
1665			world.
1666
1667			Long life to the Bay, forever.
1668			Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
1669			Thank you for reading.
1670			%
1671			> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
1672			>
1673			> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
1674
1675			How very ironic.
1676			%
1677			With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
1678			evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
1679			takes religion."
1680
1681			--Steve Weinberg
1682			%
1683			http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
1684			%
1685			[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
1686			[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
1687			[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
1688
1689			"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
1690			solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
1691			solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
1692			%
1693			[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
1694			The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
1695			the right tool for me.
1696			%
1697			[deliantra]
1698			02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
1699			%
1700			I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
1701			%
1702			cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
1703			/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
1704			Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
1705			%
1706			From the CFA633 datasheet:
1707
1708			* Do not eat the LCD panel.
1709			%
1710			>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
1711			>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
1712
1713			It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
1714			actually tells you it's American.
1715			%
1716			[better do not hire this programmer]
1717			From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
1718			Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
1719			Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
1720
1721			Hi
1722
1723			I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
1724			someone here can advise me.
1725
1726			I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
1727			that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
1728			wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
1729			dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
1730			happens with the customer looking on!!).
1731
1732			I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
1733			like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
1734			on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
1735			Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
1736			exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
1737			corresponding thing in C?
1738
1739			Thanks!
1740			%
1741			[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
1742
1743			// See bug 53763.
1744			nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
1745			nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
1746			if (shell) {
1747			kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
1748			%
1749			[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
1750			amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
1751
1752			0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx
1753			0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx
1754			0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax
1755			0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
1756			0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq
1757			%
1758			(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
1759			zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
1760			error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
1761			must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
1762	root	1.462	"display quality too high").
1763	root	1.431
1764			[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
1765			%
1766			Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
1767
1768	root	1.432	> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
1769	root	1.431	> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
1770
1771			Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
1772
1773			x / y * z
1774
1775			and
1776
1777			x / y * z
1778
1779			That'll never cause problems, right? :)
1780
1781			(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
1782			design decisions.)
1783			%
1784			endergt:
1785			> snoofle:
1786			> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
1787			> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
1788			> > you understand what you are doing...
1789			>
1790	root	1.432	> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
1791	root	1.431
1792	root	1.432	debug
1793	root	1.431	%
1794			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%.
1795
1796			Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
1797			%
1798			Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
1799			are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
1800			for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
1801
1802			Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
1803			pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
1804			6 Decompilation
1805
1806			1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
1807			reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
1808			of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
1809			necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
1810			computer program with other programs, provided that the following
1811			conditions are met: [...]"
1812			%
1813			http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
1814			%
1815			Why Linux Sux ?
1816
1817			Easy .
1818			Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
1819			Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
1820			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 .
1821			Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
1822			GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
1823			Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
1824			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! ) .
1825			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 .
1826			Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
1827
1828			You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
1829			no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
1830			working ones . Screw linux users .
1831			%
1832			19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
1833			19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
1834			19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)
1835			%
1836			> The Dell 30"...
1837
1838			It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
1839			the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
1840			%
1841	root	1.432	Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
1842	root	1.431
1843			> > 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".
1844	root	1.432	>
1845	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!
1846	root	1.432	>
1847	root	1.431	> your welcome, pinhead!
1848	root	1.432
1849	root	1.431	Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a beep during ww2 I will respond.
1850
1851			1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
1852			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.
1853			3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
1854	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.
1855	root	1.431	%
1856			[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
1857			Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
1858			public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
1859			%
1860			ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
1861
1862			Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
1863			es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
1864			dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
1865
1866			Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
1867			anderen betriebssystemen.
1868
1869			Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
1870			auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
1871
1872			habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
1873			Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
1874			Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
1875			Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
1876			einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
1877
1878			Frage?
1879			Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
1880			Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
1881			Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
1882
1883			Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
1884			%
1885			"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
1886			Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
1887			of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
1888			religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
1889			has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
1890			and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
1891			%
1892			19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
1893			19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
1894			19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
1895			19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
1896			%
1897			What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
1898			reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
1899
1900			God bless the re-inventers
1901
1902			Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
1903			what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
1904
1905	root	1.432	Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
1906	root	1.431
1907			The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
1908			one.
1909			%
1910			[rfc2665]
1911			The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
1912			Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
1913			useful in theory than in practice.
1914			%
1915			15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
1916	root	1.432	15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
1917	root	1.431	mit windows zu tun
1918			15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
1919			15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
1920			15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
1921			15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
1922			15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
1923	root	1.432	15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
1924	root	1.431	geaendert haben :->
1925			15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
1926	root	1.432	15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
1927	root	1.431	15:30
1928			15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
1929			15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
1930			%
1931			[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
1932			The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
1933			If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
1934			%
1935			http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
1936
1937			Strictly for beginners
1938
1939			Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
1940			[...]
1941			%
1942			http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
1943			%
1944			17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
1945			17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
1946			17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
1947			17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
1948			17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
1949			17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
1950			17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
1951			17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
1952			17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
1953			17:35:48 <elmex> :->
1954			17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
1955			17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
1956			17:36:18 <elmex> uh
1957			17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
1958			17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
1959			17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
1960			17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
1961			17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
1962			17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
1963			17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
1964			17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
1965			17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
1966			17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
1967			17:40:42 <elmex> lol
1968			17:41:06 <schmorp> :)
1969			%
1970			[A Gentoo User]
1971			First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
1972			distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
1973			doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
1974			[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
1975			Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
1976			environment and think LFS is to much work.
1977			[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
1978			%
1979			20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
1980			20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
1981			20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
1982			20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
1983			20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
1984	root	1.432	20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
1985			least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
1986	root	1.431	can do
1987			20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily
1988			20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
1989			20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
1990			20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
1991			20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
1992			20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story
1993			%
1994			23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
1995	root	1.432	23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
1996			between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
1997			processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
1998	root	1.431	times before) and (idiots)
1999			23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
2000	root	1.432	23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
2001			general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
2002	root	1.431	out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
2003			%
2004			[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
2005			Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
2006			%
2007			[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
2008
2009			Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
2010			to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
2011			be slow in Windows 2000"
2012
2013			In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
2014			upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
2015			that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
2016			%
2017			[so much for type-safety]
2018			List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>;
2019			lst.add(null);
2020			int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
2021			%
2022			[just for reference]
2023			Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
2024			kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
2025			einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
2026			dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
2027			weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
2028			es nicht.
2029
2030			Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
2031			lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
2032			einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
2033			letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
2034			hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
2035			wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
2036
2037			Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
2038			war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
2039			das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
2040			Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
2041			Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
2042			Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
2043			die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
2044			mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
2045			regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
2046			Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
2047			man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
2048			Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
2049			Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
2050			verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
2051
2052			Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
2053			Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
2054			anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
2055			in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
2056			tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
2057			verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
2058			nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
2059
2060			Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
2061			mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
2062			soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
2063			letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
2064			krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
2065			nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
2066			Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
2067			Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
2068			mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
2069			oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
2070			leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
2071			Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
2072			alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
2073			anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
2074			für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
2075			slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
2076			alternativ' Idioten!
2077
2078			Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
2079			Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
2080			bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
2081			euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
2082			war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
2083			dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
2084			Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
2085			ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
2086			lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
2087			brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
2088			Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
2089			damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
2090			niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
2091			Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
2092
2093			Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
2094			nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
2095			Ausgestossenen beitragen!
2096
2097			Ich will R A C H E !
2098
2099			Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
2100			gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
2101			Dinge zu sagen:
2102
2103			1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
2104
2105			Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
2106			unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
2107			welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
2108			diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
2109			anfange.
2110
2111			2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
2112			denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
2113			haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
2114			dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
2115			dieser verdammten schule!
2116
2117			Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
2118			die Welt zu bieten hat!
2119
2120			S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
2121
2122			Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
2123			was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
2124			Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
2125			Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
2126			allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
2127			oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
2128			eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
2129			Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
2130			Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
2131			können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
2132
2133			S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
2134			Einschulung.
2135
2136			Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
2137			wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
2138			Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
2139			und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
2140			Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
2141			wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
2142			zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
2143			wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
2144			Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
2145			herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
2146
2147			WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
2148			SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
2149
2150			Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
2151			Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
2152			müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
2153			sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
2154			zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
2155			sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
2156			Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
2157			Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
2158
2159			Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
2160			sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
2161			benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
2162			Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
2163			weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
2164			Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
2165			Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
2166			NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
2167
2168			Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
2169			ihr dafür bezahlen!
2170
2171			Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
2172			einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
2173			Hand genommen.
2174
2175			Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
2176			gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
2177
2178			Ich bin weg...
2179			%
2180			01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers
2181			01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
2182			%
2183	root	1.432	19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
2184			kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
2185			wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
2186			die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
2187	root	1.431	abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
2188			19:19 <schmorp> rofl
2189			19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
2190			19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
2191			19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
2192			19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
2193			19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
2194			%
2195			http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
2196			%
2197			[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
2198			[The reason I left Perl 6]
2199
2200			The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
2201			worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
2202			bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
2203			considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
2204			better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
2205			%
2206			http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
2207			%
2208			00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
2209			00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit
2210			00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
2211			%
2212			[very funny read]
2213			Hack-a-Bike
2214			USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
2215			%
2216			Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
2217			be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
2218			Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
2219			still can.
2220
2221			http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
2222			%
2223	root	1.432	23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
2224			Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
2225	root	1.431	Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
2226			%
2227			[without words]
2228			http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
2229			%
2230			[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
2231			We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
2232			a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
2233			with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
2234			actual kid in an actual bath.
2235			%
2236			Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
2237			today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2238			makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
2239			may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
2240			absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
2241			government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
2242			what happened to you.
2243			%
2244	root	1.472	--
2245	root	1.431	Markus Schulz
2246
2247			A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
2248			Q: Why is top posting bad?
2249			%
2250			On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
2251	root	1.432	> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
2252			> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
2253	root	1.431	> important difference.)
2254
2255			Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
2256			you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
2257			implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
2258			instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
2259			just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
2260
2261			- Ted
2262			%
2263			[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
2264			"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
2265			Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
2266			as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
2267			Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
2268			me, but we have the truth!"
2269			%
2270			[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
2271			(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
2272			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
2273			(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
2274			%
2275			[nethack extinctionist faq]
2276			The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
2277			tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
2278			didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
2279			monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
2280			other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
2281			in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
2282			genociding every monster.
2283
2284			I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
2285			genocide them for good measure!
2286			%%
2287			[nethack instadeath faq]
2288
2289			* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
2290
2291			Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
2292			%
2293			17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
2294			17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
2295	root	1.432	17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
2296	root	1.431	Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
2297			17:58 <Murch> lol
2298			%
2299			22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
2300			%
2301			[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
2302			http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
2303			%
2304			http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
2305			%
2306			http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
2307
2308			There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
2309			or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
2310			adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
2311			%
2312			http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
2313
2314			At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
2315			announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
2316			into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
2317			the Eastern Time Zone.
2318			[...]
2319			Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
2320			sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
2321			allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
2322			daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
2323			%
2324			Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
2325
2326			_dl_profile_output
2327			= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
2328			%
2329			[CRYPTO-GRAM]
2330			By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
2331			a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
2332			watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
2333			security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
2334			can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
2335			that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
2336
2337			http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
2338			%
2339			[famous last words]
2340			11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by plonk?
2341			%
2342			What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
2343
2344			"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
2345
2346			"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
2347
2348			--
2349			Jay Hennigan
2350			%
2351			http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
2352			%
2353			[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
2354			held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
2355			of homeland security]
2356			http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
2357			%
2358			"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
2359	root	1.432	seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
2360	root	1.431	Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
2361			version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
2362			are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
2363			range of spyware available to us?"
2364
2365			[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
2366			%
2367			[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
2368			00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
2369			00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
2370			%
2371	root	1.432	<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
2372	root	1.431	to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
2373			%
2374			The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
2375			http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
2376			%
2377			Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
2378			did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
2379			I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
2380			shooter.
2381
2382			The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
2383			done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
2384			to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
2385			they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
2386			opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
2387			puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
2388
2389			Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
2390			in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
2391			Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
2392			apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
2393			way.
2394
2395			And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
2396			bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
2397			key graphic good. Make me happy."
2398
2399			shrugs But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
2400			%
2401			> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
2402			> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
2403			> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
2404			> above comment about Hitler).
2405
2406			I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
2407			mention Hitler loses.
2408			%
2409			[siggraph '99 course 12]
2410			Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of
2411			introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
2412			your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
2413			can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
2414			program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
2415			UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
2416			including <windows.h>.
2417			[...]
2418			Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
2419			but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
2420			gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
2421			wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
2422			programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
2423			coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
2424			extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
2425			environments.
2426			%
2427			http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
2428			%
2429			[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
2430			"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
2431			%
2432			[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
2433			[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
2434			computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
2435			do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
2436			use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
2437			advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
2438			software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
2439			their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
2440			companies want to own your computer.
2441
2442			Some examples:
2443
2444			1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
2445			distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
2446			software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
2447			secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
2448			Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
2449			Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
2450			software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
2451			an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
2452			wanting to own its customers' machines.
2453	root	1.432
2454	root	1.431	2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
2455			Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
2456			security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
2457			because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
2458			software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
2459
2460			3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
2461			addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
2462			trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
2463			from Microsoft? You can't.
2464
2465			4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
2466			the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
2467			blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
2468			useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
2469			just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
2470			isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
2471			adversely affect its business partners.
2472
2473			5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
2474			computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
2475			their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
2476			about your behavior.
2477
2478			6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
2479			try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
2480			security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
2481			disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
2482			presumed infractions.
2483
2484			Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
2485			examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
2486			Computing will only make the problem worse.
2487
2488			There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
2489			people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
2490			legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
2491			invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
2492			user's device against him.
2493			[...]
2494			You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
2495			respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
2496			their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
2497			like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
2498			owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
2499			back-room marketing deals.
2500			%
2501			[John Carmack on Java]
2502			Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
2503			platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
2504			the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
2505			(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
2506			performance.
2507			%
2508			[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
2509
2510			"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
2511			ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
2512			und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
2513			Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
2514			%
2515			http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
2516			%
2517			"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
2518			once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
2519			a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
2520			http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
2521			%
2522			http://funroll-loops.org/
2523			%
2524			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
2525			When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
2526			initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
2527			goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
2528			a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
2529			to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
2530			of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
2531			it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
2532			celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
2533			Fahrenheit documentation.
2534			%
2535			[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
2536			the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
2537			sure its much slower than CVS]
2538			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2539			svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
2540			svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
2541	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2542	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
2543			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2544	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2545	root	1.431	cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
2546			svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
2547	root	1.432	[Exit 1]
2548	root	1.431	[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
2549			humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
2550			%
2551	root	1.430	[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
2552
2553			... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
2554			role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
2555	root	1.431	%
2556	root	1.429	Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
2557
2558			> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
2559			> systems ?
2560
2561			Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
2562			probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
2563
2564			Jesper
2565			%
2566	root	1.428	[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
2567
2568			"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
2569			YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
2570
2571	root	1.432	~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
2572	root	1.429	%
2573	root	1.427	http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
2574			%
2575	root	1.426	[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
2576
2577			You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
2578			like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
2579			evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
2580			measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
2581			direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
2582			into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
2583			but that's the truth.
2584			%
2585	root	1.424	[de.alt.ufo]
2586
2587			Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote:
2588
2589	root	1.432	> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
2590			> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
2591			> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
2592			> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
2593	root	1.424
2594			Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
2595	root	1.425	einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
2596			ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
2597	root	1.424	gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
2598
2599			Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
2600			was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
2601	root	1.425	der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
2602	root	1.424	gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
2603			in Richtung Boden.
2604
2605			[...]
2606
2607	root	1.432	> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
2608	root	1.425	> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
2609	root	1.424
2610			Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
2611	root	1.425	da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
2612	root	1.424	Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
2613
2614			[...]
2615
2616			> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
2617	root	1.432	> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
2618	root	1.425	> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
2619	root	1.424
2620			Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
2621	root	1.425	mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
2622			schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
2623			die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
2624	root	1.424	Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
2625			sofort.
2626			%
2627	root	1.423	[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
2628			By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
2629			like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
2630			software from Microsoft.)
2631	root	1.424	%
2632	root	1.422	http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
2633	root	1.424	%
2634	root	1.421	> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
2635
2636			Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
2637			gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
2638			afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
2639			much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
2640	root	1.424	%
2641	root	1.420	http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
2642	root	1.419	http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
2643	root	1.424	%
2644	root	1.418	Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
2645			From: Rodrigo Severo
2646			Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
2647			To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
2648
2649			On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
2650
2651			"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes:
2652			It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
2653			obviously-broken regulations like this.
2654
2655			I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
2656			isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
2657			brazilian ;)
2658			Rodrigo Severo
2659	root	1.424	%
2660	root	1.431	[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
2661	root	1.417
2662			http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
2663	root	1.424	%
2664	root	1.416	[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
2665
2666			I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
2667
2668			Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
2669
2670			Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
2671			squid (in mostly default debian config).
2672
2673			sigh
2674	root	1.424	%
2675	root	1.415	A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
2676			By Bertrand Russell
2677
2678			Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
2679			decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
2680			it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
2681			might be set forth as follows:
2682
2683			1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2684
2685			2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
2686			evidence is sure to come to light.
2687
2688			3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
2689
2690			4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
2691			or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
2692			authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
2693
2694			5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
2695			contrary authorities to be found.
2696
2697			6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
2698			do the opinions will suppress you.
2699
2700			7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
2701			was once eccentric.
2702
2703			8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
2704			for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
2705			agreement than the latter.
2706
2707			9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
2708			more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
2709
2710			10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
2711			paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
2712
2713			"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
2714			Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
2715	root	1.424	%
2716	root	1.413	[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
2717	root	1.412	John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
2718			the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
2719			Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
2720
2721			"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
2722			that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
2723			purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
2724			European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
2725			or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
2726			United States."
2727	root	1.413	---
2728			It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
2729			outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
2730			communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
2731	root	1.414	---
2732			"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
2733			discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
2734			quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
2735			street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
2736			$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
2737
2738			This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
2739			play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
2740	root	1.424	%
2741	root	1.411	[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
2742			Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
2743	root	1.424	%
2744	root	1.410	[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
2745
2746			Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
2747			almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
2748
2749			Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
2750			set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
2751
2752			Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
2753
2754			[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
2755			believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
2756	root	1.424	%
2757	root	1.409	[Copyright History - US view]
2758			http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
2759	root	1.424	%
2760	root	1.408	[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
2761			X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
2762			tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
2763			the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
2764			to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
2765			656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
2766	root	1.424	%
2767	root	1.406	[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
2768
2769			"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
2770			they care about it?"
2771			-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
2772	root	1.407
2773			[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
2774	root	1.424	%
2775	root	1.405	Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
2776			-- Gregory Chaitin
2777	root	1.424	%
2778	root	1.432	13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
2779	root	1.404	gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
2780			13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
2781			[...]
2782	root	1.432	13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
2783			wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
2784	root	1.404	wieder alles groß
2785	root	1.424	%
2786	root	1.403	[man perlsub]
2787			That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
2788			having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
2789			for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
2790			those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
2791			sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
2792	root	1.424	%
2793	root	1.402	[glibc's bits/socket.h]
2794
2795			if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
2796	root	1.432	/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
2797			return 0;
2798	root	1.424	%
2799	root	1.400	http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
2800	root	1.401
2801			> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
2802			> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
2803			> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
2804			> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
2805			> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
2806			> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
2807			> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
2808			> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
2809			> transparent.
2810
2811			Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
2812			der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
2813			die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
2814			Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
2815	root	1.424	%
2816	root	1.399	Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
2817			aber falsche Lösungen.
2818	root	1.424	%
2819	root	1.398	A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
2820			and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
2821			as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
2822			is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
2823	root	1.424	%
2824	root	1.397	On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
2825			>
2826			> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
2827			> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
2828			> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
2829			> than useful to the user.
2830
2831			I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
2832
2833			This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
2834			Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
2835			use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
2836			since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
2837
2838			Please, just tell people to use KDE.
2839
2840			Linus
2841	root	1.424	%
2842	root	1.396	Move 80, Node 81
2843			theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
2844			setzer [?]: what about 9d
2845			theodore [22k?]: they control it
2846	root	1.424	%
2847	root	1.395	[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
2848			Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
2849
2850	root	1.398	Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
2851	root	1.395	als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
2852			--
2853			Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
2854
2855			Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
2856	root	1.424	%
2857	root	1.393	[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
2858			I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
2859
2860			Person: What do you do?
2861			Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
2862			Person: <viciously> I hate you.
2863
2864			If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
2865			agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
2866			exactly getting off on the right foot.
2867	root	1.394
2868			[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
2869			http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
2870	root	1.424	%
2871	root	1.392	"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
2872			extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
2873			illegal downloaders."
2874
2875			Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
2876
2877			"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
2878			profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
2879			liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
2880			to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
2881			have to emerge."
2882
2883			http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
2884	root	1.424	%
2885	root	1.425	>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
2886	root	1.391	>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
2887
2888			Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
2889			immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
2890
2891			Bye, Andy
2892	root	1.424	%
2893	root	1.398	[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
2894	root	1.425	>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
2895	root	1.390	>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
2896	root	1.425	>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
2897	root	1.390
2898			Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
2899			Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
2900			System, die das wegstrippen :(
2901			Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
2902			halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
2903			wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
2904			Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
2905			- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
2906			Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
2907			ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
2908			alle Benutzer.
2909			Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
2910			Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
2911			irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
2912			probieren (bis es knallt)?
2913			Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
2914			der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
2915			Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
2916			Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
2917			Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
2918			insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
2919			es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
2920	root	1.424	%
2921	root	1.389	[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
2922
2923			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2924			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2925			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2926			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
2927			svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
2928			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
2929			svn: Working copy '.' locked
2930			svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
2931			cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
2932			cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
2933			unfinished operations, etc.
2934			usage: cleanup [PATH...]
2935
2936			Valid options:
2937			--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
2938			--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
2939
2940			[Thanks for the details. Not.]
2941	root	1.424	%
2942	root	1.388	But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
2943			ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
2944			_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
2945			to provide.
2946			- perl6-language - michele dondi
2947	root	1.424	%
2948	root	1.386	[From: perl6-language]
2949
2950			The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
2951			alarm people more.
2952
2953			-Nate
2954
2955			[...]
2956
2957			My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
2958			Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
2959			image of the language that is created here.
2960
2961			Juerd
2962
2963			[...]
2964
2965			(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
2966			'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
2967			perl526 translator will dump core on those)
2968
2969	root	1.432	--
2970	root	1.386	H.Merijn Brand
2971	root	1.387	%
2972	root	1.385	Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
2973	root	1.388	dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
2974	root	1.385	Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
2975			Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
2976	root	1.387	%
2977	root	1.384	[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
2978			http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
2979	root	1.387	%
2980	root	1.383	[Priceless :)]
2981			http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
2982	root	1.387	%
2983	root	1.382	[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
2984			>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
2985			[...]
2986			> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
2987			"Windows is broken."
2988	root	1.387	%
2989	root	1.381	[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
2990			Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
2991			is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
2992	root	1.387	%
2993	root	1.380	[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
2994			on being able to kill their children legally]
2995			http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
2996	root	1.387	%
2997	root	1.379	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
2998			The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
2999			whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
3000	root	1.387	%
3001	root	1.377	[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
3002			"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
3003			that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
3004			the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
3005			personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
3006			by law enforcement policies all over the country."
3007	root	1.378	--
3008			"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
3009			administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
3010			war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
3011			rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
3012			reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
3013			DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
3014			wasteful government spending."
3015	root	1.387	%
3016	root	1.376	[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
3017			http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
3018	root	1.387	%
3019	root	1.375	[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!]
3020			http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
3021	root	1.387	%
3022	root	1.375	["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
3023			http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
3024	root	1.387	%
3025	root	1.374	[Pencil Carving]
3026			http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
3027	root	1.387	%
3028	root	1.374	[Copyright]
3029	root	1.373	http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
3030	root	1.387	%
3031	root	1.372	[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
3032			http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
3033	root	1.387	%
3034	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
3035			captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
3036	root	1.371	nation from terrorist attacks.
3037	root	1.432	23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
3038			necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
3039	root	1.371	States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
3040	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
3041			consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
3042	root	1.387	%
3043	root	1.370	[Looks extreme]
3044			http://www.counterpunch.org/
3045	root	1.387	%
3046	root	1.369	[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
3047			"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
3048			foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
3049			their weapons over our heads."
3050			http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
3051	root	1.387	%
3052	root	1.368	[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
3053			http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
3054	root	1.387	%
3055	root	1.367	[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
3056			Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
3057			about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
3058			space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
3059			sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
3060	root	1.387	%
3061	root	1.366	[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
3062	root	1.387	%
3063	root	1.366	The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
3064			several requests for clarification.
3065
3066			Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
3067			not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
3068			unter TCG definitions.
3069	root	1.387	%
3070	root	1.366	But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
3071			force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
3072			policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
3073			do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
3074	root	1.387	%
3075	root	1.366	It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
3076			terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
3077			get people on board.
3078			%
3079	root	1.365	To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
3080			patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
3081			accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
3082			DRM.
3083
3084			The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
3085			injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
3086	root	1.387	%
3087	root	1.364	[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
3088			switch ($decade) {
3089			case "the 50's":
3090			s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
3091			break;
3092			case "the 60's":
3093			s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
3094			break;
3095			case "the 70's":
3096			s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
3097			break;
3098			case "the 80's":
3099			s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
3100			break;
3101			case "the 90's":
3102			s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
3103			break;
3104			case "the 00's":
3105			s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
3106			break;
3107			}
3108	root	1.387	%
3109	root	1.363	http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
3110
3111			"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
3112			in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
3113			assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
3114			suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
3115
3116			"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
3117			at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
3118			thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
3119
3120			""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
3121			why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
3122			fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
3123			that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
3124			is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
3125			sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
3126			latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
3127			question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
3128			I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
3129			plastic lover, pondering my existence."
3130	root	1.387	%
3131	root	1.362	"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
3132			that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
3133			married or unmarried."
3134
3135			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
3136			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
3137			http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
3138			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
3139			http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
3140	root	1.387	%
3141	root	1.362	http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
3142
3143			[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
3144			Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
3145			to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
3146			watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
3147			are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
3148			conditioning.
3149
3150			[And this is religion at its best:]
3151			Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
3152			Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
3153			this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
3154	root	1.387	%
3155	root	1.361	[Racism]
3156			http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
3157	root	1.387	%
3158	root	1.360	[A link, just a link]
3159			http://www.oilcrisis.com/
3160	root	1.387	%
3161	root	1.359	As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
3162			the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
3163
3164			I apologise for this.
3165
3166			If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
3167			me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
3168	root	1.387	%
3169	root	1.358	PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
3170			induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
3171			el says: ich kenn da wen
3172			el says: bei dem wars so
3173			[...]
3174			PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
3175			el says: und bekam augenkrebs
3176			el says: gehirntumor auch
3177			el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
3178	root	1.387	%
3179	root	1.357	wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
3180	root	1.387	%
3181	root	1.356	[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
3182			no sense in the kernel]
3183			From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
3184
3185			[...]
3186
3187			Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
3188			models.
3189
3190			In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
3191			models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
3192			they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
3193	root	1.387	%
3194	root	1.354	[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
3195			There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
3196			contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
3197			--
3198			Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
3199	root	1.355	--
3200			This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
3201			you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
3202			like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
3203			jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
3204	root	1.387	%
3205	root	1.353	An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
3206			Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
3207			1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
3208			attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
3209			strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
3210			forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
3211			<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html>
3212			[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
3213	root	1.387	%
3214	root	1.352	[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
3215			which you currently do not posess]
3216			http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
3217	root	1.387	%
3218	root	1.388	Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
3219			Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
3220	root	1.351	[Nach: Time Bandits]
3221	root	1.387	%
3222	root	1.350	http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
3223	root	1.387	%
3224	root	1.349	Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
3225			a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
3226	root	1.387	%
3227	root	1.432	Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
3228			is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
3229			paragraphs.
3230	root	1.387	%
3231	root	1.347	[the average IQ seems to be declining]
3232			http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
3233			http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
3234	root	1.387	%
3235	root	1.346	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
3236			> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
3237
3238			Most catholics aren't American.
3239	root	1.387	%
3240	root	1.345	[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
3241
3242			[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
3243			In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
3244			Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
3245			against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
3246			fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
3247
3248			[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
3249			How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
3250	root	1.387	%
3251	root	1.344	[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
3252			Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
3253			replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
3254			because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
3255			civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
3256			criminals."
3257	root	1.387	%
3258	root	1.343	The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
3259			[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
3260	root	1.387	%
3261	root	1.342	To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
3262			than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
3263	root	1.387	%
3264	root	1.341	[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
3265			http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
3266	root	1.387	%
3267	root	1.340	The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
3268			I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
3269			card (They went up in flames).
3270	root	1.387	%
3271	root	1.432	05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
3272			it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
3273			higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
3274			was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
3275	root	1.338	white flag factories, disabling their military.
3276	root	1.432	05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently:
3277	root	1.339	http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
3278	root	1.387	%
3279	root	1.337	[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
3280			we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
3281			by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
3282
3283			"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
3284
3285			[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
3286	root	1.387	%
3287	root	1.336	[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
3288			Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
3289			the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
3290			application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
3291			violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
3292			elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
3293			but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
3294			a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
3295			of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
3296			--
3297			Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
3298			of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
3299			people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
3300			but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
3301			the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
3302			explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
3303	root	1.387	%
3304	root	1.335	http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
3305			The Obfuscated V contest
3306	root	1.387	%
3307	root	1.335	Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
3308			soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
3309			shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
3310			cigarette lighters."
3311			http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
3312	root	1.387	%
3313	root	1.334	<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/>
3314			Does it run under Windows ?
3315			- Who cares?
3316	root	1.387	%
3317	root	1.333	[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
3318	root	1.332	http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
3319	root	1.387	%
3320	root	1.331	http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
3321			Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
3322			[...]
3323			Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
3324			[...]
3325			Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
3326			to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
3327			is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
3328	root	1.387	%
3329	root	1.329	[de.alt.ufo]
3330	root	1.432	> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
3331			> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
3332			> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
3333	root	1.388	> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
3334	root	1.330	> www.ufo-finder.de
3335	root	1.432	> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
3336	root	1.330	> mehr!
3337			> richy.
3338
3339			Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
3340	root	1.387	%
3341	root	1.330	[de.alt.ufo]
3342	root	1.329	> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
3343			> zugetragen hat?
3344
3345			Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
3346			warum behauptest Du es dann?
3347	root	1.388	[später]
3348			> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
3349	root	1.329
3350			Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
3351			Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
3352			naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
3353			ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
3354			aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
3355
3356			Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
3357
3358			Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
3359			von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
3360			ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
3361	root	1.387	%
3362	root	1.388	[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
3363	root	1.328	Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
3364			dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
3365	root	1.387	%
3366	root	1.327	[res_nsend.c]
3367			/* give the hook another try */
3368			if (++loops < 42) /doug adams/
3369			break;
3370	root	1.387	%
3371	root	1.326	[sr_port/mdq.h]
3372	root	1.432	/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
3373	root	1.326	in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
3374			#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))
3375	root	1.387	%
3376	root	1.325	Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
3377	root	1.387	%
3378	root	1.324	* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]:
3379	root	1.432	> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
3380	root	1.324	> current settings of the list.
3381	root	1.432	>
3382			> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
3383			> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
3384	root	1.324	> the original sender, not the list.
3385	root	1.432	>
3386			> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
3387			> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
3388	root	1.324	> as TO).
3389	root	1.432	>
3390	root	1.324	> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
3391
3392			Your mail client is not being blamed. It is your
3393			responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
3394			is your responsibility to see that your posts are properly
3395			addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
3396			being discourteous to.
3397
3398			The fault is all yours. It is/was your choice.
3399			--
3400			Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
3401	root	1.387	%
3402	root	1.323	[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
3403	root	1.388	"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
3404	root	1.387	%
3405	root	1.322	An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
3406			software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
3407			http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
3408			http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
3409			http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
3410	root	1.387	%
3411	root	1.322	[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
3412			"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
3413			what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
3414			you don't have any'."
3415	root	1.323
3416			[I also am very fond of this quote:]
3417			"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
3418			would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
3419			[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
3420	root	1.387	%
3421	root	1.321	[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
3422			Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3423			3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
3424			Implemented Inventions Common Position!
3425	root	1.387	%
3426	root	1.319	[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
3427			The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
3428			execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
3429			should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
3430			Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
3431			reason will not win many fans.
3432
3433			[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
3434			documents in the algorithm section]
3435	root	1.387	%
3436	root	1.318	["Blue in the Face"]
3437			Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
3438			irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
3439			und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
3440			die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
3441
3442			Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
3443	root	1.387	%
3444	root	1.317	And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
3445			Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
3446			that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
3447	root	1.388	of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
3448	root	1.317	Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
3449			[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
3450	root	1.387	%
3451	root	1.316	[Better know what they actually do...]
3452	root	1.388	[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
3453	root	1.316	http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
3454	root	1.315	[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
3455			ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
3456	root	1.387	%
3457	root	1.314	[rfc4096]
3458			The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
3459			amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
3460			or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
3461			the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
3462			Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
3463	root	1.387	%
3464	root	1.313	[just a really nice md5sum]
3465			99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
3466	root	1.387	%
3467	root	1.312	[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
3468	root	1.432	* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
3469	root	1.312	* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
3470			* at their price list.
3471	root	1.387	%
3472	root	1.311	[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
3473			You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
3474			time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
3475			wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
3476			had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
3477			terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
3478			level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
3479	root	1.387	%
3480	root	1.309	21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
3481			21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
3482	root	1.387	%
3483	root	1.308	03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
3484			03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
3485			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
3486			03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder
3487	root	1.387	%
3488	root	1.319	[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
3489	root	1.307	http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
3490	root	1.387	%
3491	root	1.306	[some SPAM]
3492			Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
3493	root	1.387	%
3494	root	1.305	cowsay -f head-in oink \| cowthink -n -f sodomized
3495	root	1.387	%
3496	root	1.304	[star wars episode guide]
3497			1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
3498			2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3499			3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
3500			4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
3501			5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
3502			6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
3503			[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
3504	root	1.387	%
3505	root	1.300	[God knows his enemies]
3506			http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
3507	root	1.302	[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
3508	root	1.303	http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
3509	root	1.387	%
3510	root	1.299	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
3511	root	1.301	[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
3512	root	1.387	%
3513	root	1.298	[http://www.bildblog.de/]
3514	root	1.388	Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
3515			rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
3516			hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
3517	root	1.298	Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
3518
3519			Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
3520
3521			Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
3522			Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
3523	root	1.388	ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
3524	root	1.298	Zigarette sucht.
3525
3526			Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
3527
3528			[usw.]
3529
3530			Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
3531	root	1.388	geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
3532	root	1.298	bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
3533
3534			Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
3535			brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
3536			Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
3537			Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
3538			der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
3539	root	1.387	%
3540	root	1.388	[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
3541	root	1.297	http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
3542			http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
3543	root	1.387	%
3544	root	1.296	[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
3545			Which fanboy are you?
3546
3547			1. Windows
3548
3549			You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
3550			would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
3551			in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
3552			in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
3553			MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
3554			to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
3555			about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
3556			"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
3557			dates in bars but women laugh at you.
3558
3559			2. Apple
3560
3561			You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
3562			in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
3563			next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
3564			is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
3565			would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
3566			Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
3567			they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
3568			you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3569
3570			3. Linspire
3571
3572			You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
3573			too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
3574			pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
3575			continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
3576			installed Linspire on your machine.
3577
3578			4. Umbongo
3579
3580			You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
3581			multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
3582			operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
3583			knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
3584			houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
3585			such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
3586			very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
3587			never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
3588			themselves.
3589
3590			5. Gentoy
3591
3592			You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
3593			yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
3594			Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
3595			from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
3596			matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
3597			to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
3598			law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
3599			read those complicated regulatory documents.
3600
3601			6. Linux From Scratch
3602
3603			Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
3604			sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
3605			matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
3606			matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
3607			because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
3608			alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
3609			and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
3610	root	1.387	%
3611	root	1.295	[/usr/bin/cowsay]
3612			if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
3613	root	1.387	%
3614	root	1.294	[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
3615
3616			In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
3617			in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
3618
3619			Coda 6.0.10 is out
3620	root	1.387	%
3621	root	1.293	<opine@orifice2.com> wrote:
3622
3623			> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
3624	root	1.432	>
3625	root	1.388	> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
3626	root	1.293	> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
3627	root	1.388	> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
3628			> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
3629			> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
3630	root	1.432	>
3631			> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
3632	root	1.293	> smell attracting flies of course...
3633	root	1.432	>
3634	root	1.293	I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
3635			request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
3636	root	1.388	cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
3637	root	1.387	%
3638	root	1.432	00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
3639	root	1.387	%
3640	root	1.291	War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
3641	root	1.387	%
3642	root	1.290	98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
3643	root	1.387	%
3644	root	1.289	[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
3645			show "Correspondent"]
3646	root	1.288
3647			[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
3648			years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
3649
3650			[so know we know who creates reality now]
3651			%
3652	root	1.287	[from wordnet]
3653			cock sucking, blowjob
3654			=> fellatio, fellation
3655			=> oral sex, head
3656			=> perversion, sexual perversion
3657			=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
3658			=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
3659			=> organic process, biological process
3660			=> process
3661			=> phenomenon
3662	root	1.387	%
3663	root	1.286	10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
3664			10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
3665	root	1.387	%
3666	root	1.285	[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
3667			[slightly edited]
3668			Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
3669			(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
3670			than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
3671			that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
3672
3673			About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
3674			sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
3675			laws on terrorism and drugs.
3676
3677			Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
3678			told them about emancipation proclamation?).
3679	root	1.387	%
3680	root	1.284	"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
3681			(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)
3682	root	1.387	%
3683	root	1.283	Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
3684	root	1.282	advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
3685	root	1.387	%
3686	root	1.281	A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
3687	root	1.432	I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
3688			realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
3689	root	1.281	- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
3690	root	1.387	%
3691	root	1.279	"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
3692			- oesi
3693	root	1.387	%
3694	root	1.278	[US, Metric]
3695			http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
3696	root	1.387	%
3697	root	1.432	[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
3698	root	1.277	[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
3699	root	1.275	Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
3700			Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments \| #23269 ]
3701
3702			It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
3703			started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
3704			important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
3705			increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
3706			to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
3707			post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
3708			to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
3709			that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
3710			spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
3711			have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
3712			your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
3713			seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
3714			truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
3715			days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
3716			their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
3717			more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
3718			few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
3719			yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
3720			for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
3721			Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
3722			servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
3723			becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
3724			ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
3725			petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
3726
3727			This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
3728			rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
3729			fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
3730			more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
3731			repute yourself and initially forego payment.
3732
3733			Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
3734			tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
3735			basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
3736			appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
3737			subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
3738			question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
3739			as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
3740			and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
3741			not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
3742			perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
3743			the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
3744
3745			In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
3746			programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
3747			some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
3748			their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
3749			myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
3750			student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
3751			of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
3752			trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
3753			of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
3754			everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
3755			unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
3756			sovereign nation.
3757
3758			While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
3759			jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
3760			hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
3761			sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
3762			test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
3763			CSPAN, don't post here.
3764
3765			-scott
3766	root	1.387	%
3767	root	1.274	But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
3768			University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
3769			capacity to feel pain.
3770
3771			"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
3772			as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
3773	root	1.387	%
3774	root	1.273	Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
3775			From: Sven Neumann
3776
3777			Hi,
3778
3779	root	1.388	Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
3780	root	1.432	> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
3781	root	1.273
3782			Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
3783			that
3784
3785			ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
3786
3787			does not do what you would expect it to do.
3788	root	1.387	%
3789	root	1.271	http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
3790	root	1.272	the original comment says:
3791			This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
3792			Waiting at the gate means you fail.
3793	root	1.387	%
3794	root	1.271	{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
3795			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
3796			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
3797			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
3798			{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
3799			{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
3800	root	1.387	%
3801	root	1.275	[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
3802	root	1.270	interesting read]
3803			http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
3804	root	1.387	%
3805	root	1.269	[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
3806			http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
3807			http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
3808	root	1.387	%
3809	root	1.268	In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
3810			gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
3811			various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
3812			linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
3813			the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
3814			locks can open the gate.
3815
3816			This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
3817			simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
3818			with different locks in parallel and in series.
3819	root	1.387	%
3820	root	1.267	http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
3821			Safecracking for the computer scientist
3822	root	1.387	%
3823	root	1.265	Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
3824
3825			Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
3826
3827			Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
3828			species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
3829			and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
3830			'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
3831			explanation of this.
3832
3833			Theory: An explanation of an observation
3834
3835			Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
3836			which explains why the hammer falls.
3837
3838			Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
3839			how a population's genome can change over time.
3840
3841	root	1.266	Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
3842			mathematical relationship between two values.
3843	root	1.265
3844			Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
3845			brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
3846
3847			Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
3848			acceleration.
3849
3850			Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
3851			of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
3852			evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
3853			evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
3854			evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
3855			useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
3856			longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
3857			high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
3858			false.
3859
3860			[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
3861	root	1.387	%
3862	root	1.388	[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
3863	root	1.264	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
3864
3865			Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
3866			Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
3867	root	1.388	sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
3868			Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
3869			und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
3870	root	1.264	und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
3871
3872	root	1.388	Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
3873			Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
3874			außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
3875			sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
3876			sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
3877			Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
3878			risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
3879	root	1.264
3880			Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
3881	root	1.388	Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
3882			(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
3883			umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
3884			fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
3885	root	1.264	sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
3886	root	1.388	Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
3887	root	1.264	sportlich.
3888
3889	root	1.388	Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
3890			Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
3891			ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
3892			wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
3893			Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
3894	root	1.264
3895	root	1.388	Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
3896	root	1.264	Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
3897	root	1.388	Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
3898			während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
3899	root	1.264	vorzuweisen hat.
3900
3901			"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
3902			Forscher.
3903	root	1.387	%
3904	root	1.263	[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
3905			the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
3906			EULA-style license]
3907	root	1.262	http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
3908	root	1.387	%
3909	root	1.261	The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
3910			a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
3911			cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
3912			pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
3913			Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
3914			in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
3915			of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
3916	root	1.387	%
3917	root	1.260	Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
3918	root	1.387	%
3919	root	1.259	[Happy New Year]
3920			23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
3921			Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
3922			00:24 <schmorp> re
3923	root	1.387	%
3924	root	1.258	[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
3925	root	1.388	Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
3926			liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
3927	root	1.258	sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
3928			wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
3929	root	1.387	%
3930	root	1.257	[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
3931			bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
3932			proponents of such theories.]
3933			http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
3934			"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
3935			evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
3936			took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
3937			`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
3938			spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
3939			procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
3940			University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
3941			it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
3942			intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
3943			(below, right)."
3944	root	1.387	%
3945	root	1.256	[wonderful info...]
3946			http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
3947			[useful info...]
3948			http://www.snopes.com/
3949	root	1.387	%
3950	root	1.253	Computer analyst to programmer:
3951			"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
3952	root	1.387	%
3953	root	1.252	[Fun!]
3954			http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
3955	root	1.387	%
3956	root	1.388	[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
3957	root	1.251	"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
3958			Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
3959	root	1.387	%
3960	root	1.250	[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
3961			ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
3962			#!/usr/bin/sh
3963			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
3964			# All Rights Reserved
3965
3966			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
3967			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
3968			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
3969
3970			#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
3971	root	1.432	ddev5:~$
3972	root	1.387	%
3973	root	1.249	22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
3974			22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
3975			22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
3976	root	1.387	%
3977	root	1.248	[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
3978			# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
3979			# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
3980			# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
3981			# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
3982			# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
3983			#
3984			# say it with me: "i hate win32."
3985	root	1.387	%
3986	root	1.388	Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
3987	root	1.247	Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
3988			worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
3989			-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>
3990	root	1.387	%
3991	root	1.246	http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
3992	root	1.387	%
3993	root	1.245	[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
3994	root	1.388	Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
3995			gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
3996	root	1.387	%
3997	root	1.244	http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
3998			[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
3999			are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
4000	root	1.387	%
4001	root	1.243	http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
4002	root	1.387	%
4003	root	1.243	[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
4004			Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
4005			Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
4006			that you have a problem.)
4007			<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
4008	root	1.387	%
4009	root	1.242	[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
4010			PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
4011	root	1.247	25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
4012	root	1.242	26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
4013
4014			[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
4015			and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
4016	root	1.387	%
4017	root	1.241	That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
4018			sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
4019
4020			Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
4021			declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
4022			etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
4023			exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
4024			programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
4025			because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
4026			code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
4027			it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
4028			less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
4029			themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
4030			namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
4031			techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
4032			that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
4033			got implemented in main-stream compilers.
4034
4035			Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
4036			"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
4037			paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
4038			create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
4039			programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
4040			hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
4041			MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
4042	root	1.387	%
4043	root	1.240	[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
4044	root	1.239
4045			Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you only
4046			have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
4047			doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
4048	root	1.387	%
4049	root	1.238	[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
4050			"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
4051			knows this, and it's true for software too.
4052	root	1.387	%
4053	root	1.237	> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
4054
4055			... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
4056			;)
4057	root	1.387	%
4058	root	1.235	[this is not a blogggggg]
4059			One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
4060			having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
4061			proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
4062
4063			NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
4064
4065	root	1.236	Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
4066			framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
4067	root	1.387	%
4068	root	1.234	[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
4069			using so many abbreviations...]
4070
4071			Hi Volker -
4072
4073			alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
4074	root	1.388	Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
4075			spät ...
4076	root	1.234
4077			Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
4078
4079			Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
4080
4081	root	1.388	schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
4082			nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
4083	root	1.234
4084	root	1.388	herzliche Grüsse
4085	root	1.234
4086			tom
4087	root	1.247
4088	root	1.234	PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
4089	root	1.388	'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
4090	root	1.234	... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
4091	root	1.388	Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
4092	root	1.234	schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
4093	root	1.387	%
4094	root	1.233	From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
4095			Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
4096			Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
4097
4098			On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
4099	root	1.247	> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
4100			> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
4101	root	1.233	> someone else?
4102
4103			Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
4104			===================================================================
4105			--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
4106			+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
4107			@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
4108			S: 79098 Freiburg
4109			S: Germany
4110
4111			+N: Hans Reiser
4112			+E: reiser@namesys.com
4113			+W: http://www.namesys.com/
4114			+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
4115			+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
4116			+S: Oakland, CA 94611
4117			+S: USA
4118			+
4119			N: Joerg Reuter
4120			E: jreuter@yaina.de
4121			W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
4122	root	1.387	%
4123	root	1.232	Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
4124			[poeppel_magenta.gif]
4125	root	1.387	%
4126	root	1.231	[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
4127			Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
4128	root	1.387	%
4129	root	1.230	[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
4130			Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
4131	root	1.387	%
4132	root	1.229	[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
4133			[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
4134			[...]
4135			Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
4136			within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
4137			$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
4138			ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
4139			[...]
4140			Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
4141			$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
4142			(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
4143			to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
4144	root	1.387	%
4145	root	1.228	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
4146			[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
4147			Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
4148			Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
4149			Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
4150			Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
4151	root	1.387	%
4152	root	1.226	[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
4153	root	1.227	[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
4154			button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
4155			fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
4156			be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
4157			clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
4158			to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
4159			anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
4160			anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
4161	root	1.387	%
4162	root	1.223	[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
4163			I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
4164	root	1.224	picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
4165	root	1.223	A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
4166	root	1.387	%
4167	root	1.222	[bts show 215647]
4168			[yes, the whole thing]
4169	root	1.387	%
4170	root	1.221	[bts show 254316]
4171	root	1.247	> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
4172			> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
4173			> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
4174	root	1.221	>
4175			> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
4176
4177			We'll use a larger wall.
4178	root	1.387	%
4179	root	1.220	[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
4180			This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
4181			horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
4182			by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
4183
4184			The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
4185			non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
4186
4187			There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
4188			but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
4189
4190			It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
4191			cost.
4192			["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
4193	root	1.387	%
4194	root	1.219	When searching on google for:
4195
4196	root	1.225	kakerlake schabe made
4197	root	1.219
4198			Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
4199
4200	root	1.225	kakerlake _schwabe_ made
4201	root	1.387	%
4202	root	1.218	What we learned this week;
4203			"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
4204	root	1.387	%
4205	root	1.216	"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
4206			Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
4207	root	1.387	%
4208	root	1.215	[translated]
4209			23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken
4210			23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
4211			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
4212			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
4213			23:07 <schmorp> ...
4214			23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu
4215			23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
4216			23:07 <schmorp> and it works
4217	root	1.387	%
4218	root	1.214	History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
4219			-- Lord Balfour
4220	root	1.387	%
4221	root	1.213	The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
4222	root	1.387	%
4223	root	1.212	<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
4224			I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
4225			him to forgive me.
4226	root	1.387	%
4227	root	1.211	[slashdot]
4228			> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
4229
4230			I have been to NZ. You have no television.
4231	root	1.387	%
4232	root	1.210	[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
4233			"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
4234			get bored during the sex scenes.
4235	root	1.387	%
4236	root	1.209	I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
4237			strangler is to the woman home alone.
4238			- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
4239	root	1.387	%
4240	root	1.208	[Bruce Schneier]
4241			SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
4242			widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
4243			pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
4244			to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
4245			secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
4246	root	1.387	%
4247	root	1.207	[From Paul Eggert]
4248			[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
4249			violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
4250			HP-UX customer. [...]
4251	root	1.387	%
4252	root	1.206	>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
4253			>>
4254			>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
4255			>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
4256			>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
4257			>>spelled it in UC.
4258	root	1.247	>
4259			>
4260	root	1.206	> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
4261
4262			C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
4263	root	1.387	%
4264	root	1.205	[comp.lang.c]
4265			> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
4266
4267			I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
4268			usage.
4269
4270			Richard
4271	root	1.387	%
4272	root	1.204	I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
4273			tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
4274			at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
4275			creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
4276			play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
4277			repair that weakness before your program notices it."
4278	root	1.387	%
4279	root	1.203	21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
4280			21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
4281	root	1.387	%
4282	root	1.202	MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
4283	root	1.387	%
4284	root	1.201	A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
4285			competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
4286			make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
4287			don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
4288			will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
4289			anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
4290			no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
4291			nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
4292			existence means and implies.
4293
4294			[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
4295	root	1.387	%
4296	root	1.201	> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
4297			>
4298			> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
4299			> said you were wrong I'll get more...
4300			>
4301			> You're WRONG!
4302
4303	root	1.388	void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
4304			and §7.20.3.1).
4305	root	1.387	%
4306	root	1.200	From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
4307			In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
4308			knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
4309	root	1.387	%
4310	root	1.199	[another variation, more useful]
4311			A. It should be obvious.
4312			Q. How is it hard?
4313			A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
4314			Q. Why is top-posting bad?
4315	root	1.387	%
4316	root	1.198	[windows is a good place to learn programming]
4317			Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
4318
4319			Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
4320			The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
4321
4322			- works ok on linux
4323			- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
4324
4325			Any clues why?
4326			I am new to the non windows world.
4327
4328			Thanks
4329	root	1.387	%
4330	root	1.197	[comp.lang.c]
4331			> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
4332			> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
4333			> this ?
4334
4335			This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
4336			we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
4337	root	1.387	%
4338	root	1.196	[comp.std.c]
4339			In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
4340			Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
4341
4342			> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
4343	root	1.247	>
4344			> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
4345			>
4346	root	1.196	> Yup, mine!
4347	root	1.387	%
4348	root	1.195	[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
4349			Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
4350
4351			Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
4352	root	1.387	%
4353	root	1.194	[an old question, revisited]
4354			http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
4355	root	1.387	%
4356	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4357	root	1.247	> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
4358	root	1.194
4359			This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
4360			obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
4361	root	1.387	%
4362	root	1.194	[comp.lang.c]
4363			I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
4364	root	1.387	%
4365	root	1.193	according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
4366	root	1.387	%
4367	root	1.192	[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
4368			Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
4369	root	1.247	deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
4370	root	1.387	%
4371	root	1.388	[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
4372			aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
4373			Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
4374	root	1.190	DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
4375
4376	root	1.388	"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
4377	root	1.190
4378	root	1.388	Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
4379	root	1.190	dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
4380			wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
4381			Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
4382	root	1.388	diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
4383			abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
4384			schützen können.
4385	root	1.387	%
4386	root	1.189	[Reiner Gamma]
4387			http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
4388	root	1.387	%
4389	root	1.188	>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
4390			[...]
4391	root	1.187	>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
4392	root	1.188	[...]
4393	root	1.187	Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
4394			crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
4395			never get your message.
4396	root	1.387	%
4397	root	1.186	[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
4398			As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
4399			filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
4400	root	1.387	%
4401	root	1.185	[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
4402			(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
4403			a sourceforge project called GT.M).
4404	root	1.387	%
4405	root	1.184	bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
4406			01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes?
4407			01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
4408			01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
4409			01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php
4410			01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php
4411			01:15 <schmorp> g
4412			01:15 <Sesse> :-D
4413	root	1.387	%
4414	root	1.183	http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
4415			[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
4416			since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
4417			think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
4418			when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
4419			reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
4420			work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
4421			dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
4422	root	1.387	%
4423	root	1.182	[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
4424			[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
4425			disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
4426	root	1.387	%
4427	root	1.181	[Eugene Spafford]
4428			During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
4429			email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
4430			Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
4431			systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
4432			systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
4433			of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
4434	root	1.387	%
4435	root	1.180	[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
4436			If you can't vi it, it sucks.
4437	root	1.387	%
4438	root	1.180	[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
4439			GNOME TERMINAL
4440			[...]
4441			The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
4442			author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
4443			fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
4444			[.. later]
4445			There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
4446			bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
4447			interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
4448	root	1.387	%
4449	root	1.179	[I love X programs]
4450			[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
4451			/*
4452	root	1.247	* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
4453	root	1.179	*/
4454			void blip()
4455	root	1.247	{
4456	root	1.179	fflush(stdout);
4457			fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
4458			fflush(stderr);
4459	root	1.247	}
4460	root	1.387	%
4461	root	1.178	[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
4462			+ int alternative_order = 999;
4463
4464			Why not 666? :-).
4465	root	1.387	%
4466	root	1.178	[yosh on gimp-developer]
4467			It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
4468			sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
4469			users are clueless.
4470	root	1.387	%
4471	root	1.177	[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
4472			http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
4473	root	1.387	%
4474	root	1.176	[beware german translations]
4475			dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
4476	root	1.387	%
4477	root	1.175	[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
4478			NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
4479	root	1.387	%
4480	root	1.174	The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
4481			is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
4482			and", and finally, ampersand.
4483	root	1.387	%
4484	root	1.173	[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
4485			[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
4486			which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
4487			themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
4488			when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
4489	root	1.387	%
4490	root	1.171	[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
4491			WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
4492			use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
4493			destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
4494			or re-appoint George W. Bush.
4495	root	1.387	%
4496	root	1.170	[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
4497			Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
4498			the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
4499			sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
4500			and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
4501			from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
4502			[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
4503	root	1.387	%
4504	root	1.247	17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
4505	root	1.388	die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
4506			17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
4507	root	1.387	%
4508	root	1.168	[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
4509			Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
4510			standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
4511	root	1.387	%
4512	root	1.172	[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
4513	root	1.168	confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
4514	root	1.387	%
4515	root	1.167	[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
4516	root	1.247	And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
4517			is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
4518			ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
4519	root	1.167	%
4520	root	1.166	http://www.bash.org/?178890
4521	root	1.387	%
4522	root	1.165	[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
4523			<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
4524	root	1.387	%
4525	root	1.247	00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
4526			nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
4527	root	1.164	einfach :)
4528			00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei
4529	root	1.387	%
4530	root	1.163	[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
4531			/*
4532			* Function compares two strings.
4533	root	1.247	* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
4534	root	1.163	* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
4535			*/
4536			static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
4537			{
4538			int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
4539			[...]
4540	root	1.387	%
4541	root	1.163	http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
4542	root	1.387	%
4543	root	1.388	rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
4544	root	1.387	%
4545	root	1.162	[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
4546			/* grab colors before netscape does */
4547			Get_Colours ();
4548	root	1.387	%
4549	root	1.388	[oesi über apache-2.0]
4550	root	1.160	03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
4551			03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
4552			03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
4553			03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop
4554			03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4555			03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4556			03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten?
4557			03:12 <schmorp> rofl
4558	root	1.161	[...]
4559			03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
4560			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
4561			03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
4562			03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
4563			03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl>
4564	root	1.387	%
4565	root	1.159	[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
4566			[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
4567	root	1.387	%
4568	root	1.158	[rxvt/src/screen.C]
4569			#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
4570	root	1.247	assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
4571	root	1.158	#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
4572			MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
4573			#endif
4574	root	1.387	%
4575	root	1.157	[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
4576			[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
4577			UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
4578	root	1.387	%
4579	root	1.156	> > Ceterum censeo \| PGP encrypted mail preferred.
4580			> > Redmond esse delendam. \| PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
4581			>
4582			> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
4583
4584			Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
4585			--
4586			OpenVMS @ 25 \| Martin Vorlaender \| VMS & WNT programmer
4587	root	1.387	%
4588	root	1.388	Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
4589			IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
4590			Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
4591			mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
4592			auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
4593			Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
4594			Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
4595	root	1.387	%
4596	root	1.154	http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
4597			http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
4598	root	1.387	%
4599	root	1.153	Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
4600	root	1.387	%
4601	root	1.153	"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
4602			victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
4603			bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
4604			-- Robert Fisk
4605	root	1.387	%
4606	root	1.151	[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
4607			http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
4608	root	1.152	[see also the small satellites homepage]
4609			http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
4610	root	1.387	%
4611	root	1.150	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
4612			"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
4613			high-violence culture"
4614			[...]
4615			"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
4616			resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
4617			suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
4618			that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
4619			This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
4620			that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
4621			a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
4622			policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
4623
4624			Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
4625			they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
4626	root	1.387	%
4627	root	1.150	From: <[...]@aol.com>
4628			Subject: Re: [...]
4629
4630			Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
4631
4632			> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
4633			> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
4634			> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
4635			> saved it :)
4636
4637			Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
4638			addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
4639			[...]
4640	root	1.387	%
4641	root	1.150	From: Alan Cox
4642			> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
4643			> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
4644			> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
4645			> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
4646
4647			Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
4648			prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
4649			what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
4650			[...]
4651	root	1.387	%
4652	root	1.150	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4653	root	1.387	%
4654	root	1.150	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4655	root	1.387	%
4656	root	1.150	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4657	root	1.387	%
4658	root	1.149	[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
4659			even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
4660			claim to have decades of java experience]
4661			On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote:
4662			> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
4663			> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
4664			> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
4665	root	1.387	%
4666	root	1.149	http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
4667	root	1.387	%
4668	root	1.149	http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
4669	root	1.387	%
4670	root	1.149	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
4671	root	1.387	%
4672	root	1.147	[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
4673			[mail not to be delivered]
4674			> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
4675	root	1.247	>
4676	root	1.147	> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
4677
4678			My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
4679			bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
4680	root	1.387	%
4681	root	1.147	On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
4682
4683			> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
4684			>
4685			> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
4686			> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
4687			> >
4688			> > I don't think anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
4689			> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
4690			> > language which does support this?
4691			>
4692
4693			Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
4694
4695			In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
4696			other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
4697			heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
4698			a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
4699			since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
4700			than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
4701	root	1.387	%
4702	root	1.147	echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
4703			echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
4704			--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
4705	root	1.387	%
4706	root	1.146	AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
4707			spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
4708			Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
4709
4710			Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
4711			extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
4712			a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
4713			Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
4714			rising and setting of the sun, only God."
4715
4716			Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
4717			explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
4718			on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
4719			and thwart them that way.
4720	root	1.387	%
4721	root	1.146	[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
4722			There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
4723			that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
4724			unfortunate decision.
4725	root	1.387	%
4726	root	1.247	02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
4727	root	1.146	fest ;)
4728	root	1.387	%
4729	root	1.146	[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
4730
4731			Last updated: - Invalid Date
4732	root	1.387	%
4733	root	1.146	http://www.bash.org/?99060
4734	root	1.387	%
4735	root	1.145	[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
4736			http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
4737	root	1.387	%
4738	root	1.144	Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
4739
4740			A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
4741			similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
4742			local object as a "he":
4743
4744			"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
4745			has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
4746			He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
4747			nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
4748			metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
4749			kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
4750			the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
4751			EX-PARROT!"
4752
4753			- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
4754	root	1.387	%
4755	root	1.144	[ach du schande]
4756			"pflichtpfandfrei"
4757	root	1.387	%
4758	root	1.142	[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
4759			The police will shoot you.
4760
4761			OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
4762			arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
4763
4764	root	1.247	Just another average day in central London.
4765	root	1.387	%
4766	root	1.141	[this signature gave me a laugh...]
4767			[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
4768			reply.
4769
4770			pls. cc my email address
4771
4772			tia
4773			pd
4774
4775
4776	root	1.247	--
4777	root	1.141	^X^C
4778			q
4779			quit
4780			:q
4781			^C
4782			end
4783			x
4784			exit
4785			ZZ
4786			^D
4787			?
4788			help
4789			shit
4790			.
4791	root	1.387	%
4792	root	1.140	* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
4793	root	1.387	%
4794	root	1.140	[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
4795			Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
4796			with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
4797			because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
4798	root	1.387	%
4799	root	1.140	[I love it]
4800			http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
4801			http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
4802	root	1.387	%
4803	root	1.139	"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
4804			- Douglas Adams
4805	root	1.387	%
4806	root	1.138	Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
4807			PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
4808			to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
4809			an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
4810
4811	root	1.247	The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
4812			wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
4813			software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
4814			this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
4815			their software properly.
4816	root	1.138
4817			He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
4818			patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
4819			because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
4820			told the publication.
4821
4822	root	1.247	And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
4823			number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
4824			"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
4825			malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
4826			who want visibility and glory.
4827	root	1.387	%
4828	root	1.137	[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
4829
4830			o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
4831
4832			x Try not using it.
4833	root	1.387	%
4834	root	1.136	[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
4835			The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
4836			School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
4837			to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
4838			Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
4839			had given.
4840
4841			Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
4842			showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
4843			person as well."
4844	root	1.387	%
4845	root	1.136	[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
4846	root	1.388	"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
4847			habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
4848	root	1.387	%
4849	root	1.388	["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
4850	root	1.135	[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
4851	root	1.134
4852			Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
4853	root	1.388	des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
4854	root	1.135	[...]
4855	root	1.134	Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
4856	root	1.388	ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
4857	root	1.135	[...]
4858			Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
4859			oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
4860	root	1.387	%
4861	root	1.134	http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
4862	root	1.387	%
4863	root	1.132	[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
4864			on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
4865			mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
4866			-- Ulrich Drepper
4867	root	1.387	%
4868	root	1.131	GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
4869			-- Ulrich Drepper
4870	root	1.387	%
4871	root	1.131	Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
4872			written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
4873	root	1.133	correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
4874	root	1.387	%
4875	root	1.130	Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
4876			and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
4877			-- Ulrich Drepper
4878	root	1.387	%
4879	root	1.130	Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
4880			-- Ulrich Drepper
4881	root	1.387	%
4882	root	1.129	[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
4883	root	1.388	Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
4884			zuverlässiger
4885	root	1.387	%
4886	root	1.129	[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
4887			/*
4888			* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
4889			* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
4890			* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
4891			*/
4892	root	1.387	%
4893	root	1.128	[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
4894			Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
4895			you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
4896			dlls so that they aren't shared...]
4897			http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
4898	root	1.387	%
4899	root	1.128	[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
4900			Pirating Movies
4901
4902			[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
4903			them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
4904			illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
4905	root	1.387	%
4906	root	1.128	[Look at the time scale...]
4907			http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
4908	root	1.387	%
4909	root	1.127	[Just funny]
4910			http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
4911	root	1.387	%
4912	root	1.127	[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
4913			The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
4914			sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
4915			hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
4916			company's engineers would end up in jail?
4917	root	1.387	%
4918	root	1.126	[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
4919			Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
4920			and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
4921			etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
4922			sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
4923
4924			Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
4925			left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
4926
4927			Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
4928			9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
4929			million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
4930			$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
4931			the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
4932			them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
4933			the first place!
4934	root	1.387	%
4935	root	1.247	Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
4936			you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
4937			a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
4938	root	1.125	-- Philip Greenspun
4939	root	1.387	%
4940	root	1.124	"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
4941			don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
4942	root	1.387	%
4943	root	1.124	"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
4944			to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
4945	root	1.387	%
4946	root	1.123	"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
4947			platform."
4948			[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
4949	root	1.387	%
4950	root	1.123	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
4951			waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
4952			frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
4953			and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
4954			raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
4955	root	1.320	[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
4956	root	1.387	%
4957	root	1.123	[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
4958			http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
4959	root	1.387	%
4960	root	1.123	[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
4961			So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
4962			if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
4963			database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
4964			crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
4965			Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
4966			made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
4967			Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
4968			daily.
4969	root	1.387	%
4970	root	1.123	"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
4971	root	1.388	[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
4972			Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
4973	root	1.387	%
4974	root	1.123	[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
4975			Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
4976			to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
4977			Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
4978			convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
4979			revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
4980			consideration in all articles published by the APA."
4981	root	1.387	%
4982	root	1.247	"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
4983	root	1.123	-- Bruce Schneier
4984	root	1.387	%
4985	root	1.123	[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
4986			[...so it must be good]
4987			http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
4988	root	1.387	%
4989	root	1.123	[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
4990			[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
4991			raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
4992	root	1.387	%
4993	root	1.120	[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
4994			I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
4995			No idea why I announce it here...
4996	root	1.121	http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
4997	root	1.387	%
4998	root	1.119	[Oh My God!]
4999			Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
5000	root	1.387	%
5001	root	1.119	[How many squares are on a go-board?]
5002	root	1.118	http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
5003	root	1.387	%
5004	root	1.117	[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
5005			When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
5006			father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
5007			life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
5008			been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
5009
5010			'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
5011			Sacha.
5012	root	1.387	%
5013	root	1.116	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5014			A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
5015			desk one morning:
5016
5017			Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
5018
5019			Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
5020
5021			Employee: 123456
5022
5023			[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
5024			photograph of the employee.]
5025
5026			Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
5027			identification which has your picture on it?
5028
5029			Employee: Why would you need that?
5030
5031			Security Guard: To match against our records.
5032
5033			Employee: A picture of my face?
5034
5035			Security Guard: Yes
5036
5037			Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
5038
5039			Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
5040			compare against this one.
5041	root	1.387	%
5042	root	1.116	[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
5043			http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
5044			[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
5045	root	1.387	%
5046	root	1.116	MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
5047			Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
5048			my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
5049
5050			<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html>
5051			<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/>
5052	root	1.387	%
5053	root	1.123	Eppur si muove!
5054	root	1.387	%
5055	root	1.116	[bwahahaha]
5056			"RV K-17"
5057	root	1.387	%
5058	root	1.116	"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
5059			electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
5060	root	1.387	%
5061	root	1.116	[where NOT to learn german :)]
5062			[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
5063			<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
5064			=> Son las once menos cuarto.
5065	root	1.387	%
5066	root	1.115	ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
5067			ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
5068	root	1.387	%
5069	root	1.115	[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
5070	root	1.388	Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
5071			ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
5072	root	1.115	mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
5073	root	1.388	sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
5074			erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
5075	root	1.387	%
5076	root	1.122	http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
5077	root	1.387	%
5078	root	1.115	[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
5079			Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
5080	root	1.387	%
5081	root	1.115	[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
5082			[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
5083			<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5084			>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
5085	root	1.387	%
5086	root	1.115	[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
5087			This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
5088			Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
5089			an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
5090			grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
5091			RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
5092			to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
5093			She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
5094			it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
5095			Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
5096			of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
5097			entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
5098			the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
5099			tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
5100			Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
5101			code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
5102			bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
5103			diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
5104			should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
5105	root	1.387	%
5106	root	1.114	[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
5107			"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
5108	root	1.387	%
5109	root	1.114	[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
5110			rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
5111	root	1.387	%
5112	root	1.113	[Wasteland]
5113			Lester Moore,
5114			Shot in the head with a .44.
5115			No Les, no more.
5116	root	1.387	%
5117	root	1.113	[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
5118			Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
5119
5120			STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
5121			[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
5122	root	1.387	%
5123	root	1.113	[Fallout]
5124			Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
5125			Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
5126	root	1.387	%
5127	root	1.111	[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
5128			As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
5129			different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
5130			of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
5131			are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
5132	root	1.112	[...]
5133			It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
5134			[...]
5135			The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
5136			and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
5137			the result with SHA.
5138	root	1.387	%
5139	root	1.388	> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
5140	root	1.111	> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
5141			> ist!
5142	root	1.388	Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
5143			plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
5144	root	1.111	Du denn? Analphabeten?
5145	root	1.387	%
5146	root	1.388	"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
5147			[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
5148	root	1.387	%
5149	root	1.109	17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
5150	root	1.387	%
5151	root	1.108	[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
5152			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
5153			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
5154			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
5155			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
5156			64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
5157	root	1.387	%
5158	root	1.108	[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
5159			tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
5160	root	1.387	%
5161	root	1.107	[links are free ;)]
5162			http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
5163	root	1.387	%
5164	root	1.106	[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
5165			Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
5166	root	1.387	%
5167	root	1.105	[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
5168
5169			/* One positive side-effect of US's export
5170			* control history, is that we should at least
5171			* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
5172			* "initialisation"? */
5173			EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
5174	root	1.387	%
5175	root	1.105	[man pem]
5176			Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
5177	root	1.387	%
5178	root	1.105	[pth_native.c]
5179
5180			/* ``If you can't do it in
5181	root	1.247	ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
5182	root	1.105	-- Unknown */
5183	root	1.387	%
5184	root	1.104	[subculture]
5185	root	1.388	... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
5186			mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
5187	root	1.104	skillig vorkommen ...
5188
5189			[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
5190	root	1.424	%
5191	root	1.104	[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
5192			this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
5193	root	1.247	00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
5194	root	1.104	gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
5195	root	1.247	00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
5196	root	1.104	ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
5197			00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
5198	root	1.387	%
5199	root	1.103	[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
5200	root	1.388	... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
5201			suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
5202			Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
5203	root	1.103	im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
5204	root	1.388	Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
5205			an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
5206			vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
5207	root	1.387	%
5208	root	1.102	sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
5209			aber wenig freude.
5210	root	1.387	%
5211	root	1.102	[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
5212			- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
5213			and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
5214			That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
5215			must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
5216			based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
5217			to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
5218			Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
5219			and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
5220			in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
5221	root	1.387	%
5222	root	1.388	17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
5223			doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
5224	root	1.101	17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
5225			fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet g
5226	root	1.387	%
5227	root	1.100	For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
5228			don't work well in practise.
5229			http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
5230	root	1.387	%
5231	root	1.99	[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
5232			There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
5233			"ready, fire, aim."
5234	root	1.387	%
5235	root	1.98	[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
5236			license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
5237			free countries like Germany [1].
5238			[...]
5239			Regards
5240			Henning
5241
5242			[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
5243			part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
5244			might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
5245	root	1.387	%
5246	root	1.98	[...]
5247			The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
5248			establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
5249			to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
5250			same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
5251			itself give you none of these rights at all.
5252			[...]
5253			Wolfgang Walter
5254	root	1.387	%
5255	root	1.98	burro: i once played against a computer
5256			burro: it seemed very clever
5257			burro: but then all its groups died in yose
5258			burro: it forgot to defend later..
5259			burro: oops
5260			burro: accidental poetry
5261	root	1.387	%
5262	root	1.98	[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
5263			where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
5264			yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
5265	root	1.387	%
5266	root	1.98	[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
5267			#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
5268	root	1.387	%
5269	root	1.98	"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
5270			-- Oscar Wilde
5271	root	1.387	%
5272	root	1.98	[a principle used in florida's law]
5273			"guilty until proven innocent"
5274			[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
5275	root	1.387	%
5276	root	1.98	Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
5277			said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
5278			information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
5279			getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
5280			on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
5281			number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
5282			said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
5283			full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
5284			as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
5285			hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
5286			her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
5287			wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
5288			man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
5289			close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
5290			in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
5291	root	1.387	%
5292	root	1.98	[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
5293			// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
5294			// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
5295			// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
5296			// suit particular needs.
5297			_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
5298	root	1.387	%
5299	root	1.98	[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
5300			[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
5301			... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
5302	root	1.388	Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
5303	root	1.98	kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
5304	root	1.387	%
5305	root	1.97	[Onibaba - Great Movie]
5306			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
5307	root	1.387	%
5308	root	1.97	[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
5309			http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
5310	root	1.387	%
5311	root	1.96	[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously]
5312			[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
5313			Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
5314	root	1.387	%
5315	root	1.96	GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
5316			vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
5317	root	1.388	XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
5318			JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
5319	root	1.387	%
5320	root	1.96	[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
5321
5322			[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
5323			[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
5324			the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
5325			out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
5326			is not [...]
5327	root	1.387	%
5328	root	1.247	Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
5329	root	1.95	all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
5330			repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
5331	root	1.387	%
5332	root	1.94	[some hilights from:]
5333			[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
5334
5335	root	1.388	_Einfach erklärt_
5336	root	1.94
5337			GUI
5338			Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
5339			Globale Variable
5340	root	1.388	Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
5341	root	1.94	objektorientiert
5342			Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
5343			strukturiert
5344			dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
5345			Multithreaded
5346	root	1.388	Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
5347	root	1.94	Windows 95
5348	root	1.388	Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
5349	root	1.94	Emacs
5350	root	1.388	Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
5351			ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
5352			ein vernünftiger Editor.
5353	root	1.94	IPv6
5354			$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
5355			Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
5356			2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
5357			2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
5358	root	1.388	Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
5359			Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
5360	root	1.247	PHP
5361	root	1.388	Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
5362	root	1.94	in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
5363	root	1.388	die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
5364			e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
5365	root	1.247	Alleinstellungsmerkmal
5366	root	1.94	Bunt.
5367	root	1.388	Plattformunabhängig
5368			Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
5369			plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
5370	root	1.95	[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
5371	root	1.387	%
5372	root	1.93	[logic & fallacies]
5373			http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
5374	root	1.387	%
5375	root	1.93	http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
5376	root	1.387	%
5377	root	1.93	[nah]
5378			In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
5379			appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
5380			paint dry."
5381	root	1.387	%
5382	root	1.92	http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
5383			http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
5384			http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
5385	root	1.387	%
5386	root	1.178	[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
5387	root	1.91	The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
5388			importance.
5389	root	1.387	%
5390	root	1.91	[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
5391			[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
5392			Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
5393			Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
5394
5395			You have to trust Microsoft.
5396
5397			There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
5398			Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
5399			release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
5400			Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
5401			that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
5402			useless chrome.
5403
5404			But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
5405			whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
5406			I'd like to trust them with.
5407	root	1.93	[...]
5408	root	1.387	%
5409	root	1.91	[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
5410			[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
5411			XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
5412			Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
5413			Line Number 90, Column 15:
5414	root	1.247	<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to
5415	root	1.91	--------------^
5416	root	1.387	%
5417	root	1.91	[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
5418			[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
5419			A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
5420			which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
5421			English grammar, I assure you.
5422	root	1.387	%
5423	root	1.91	Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
5424			a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
5425			these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
5426			hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
5427			en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
5428			hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
5429			can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
5430
5431			Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
5432			strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
5433			entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
5434			the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
5435			than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
5436			1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
5437			hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
5438			surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
5439			body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
5440			from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
5441
5442			This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
5443			in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
5444			stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
5445			numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
5446
5447			Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
5448			Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
5449	root	1.387	%
5450	root	1.91	[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
5451			[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
5452			The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
5453			crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
5454			don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
5455			work etc first:
5456
5457			#include <stdio.h>
5458
5459			int main (void) {
5460			while (1)
5461			printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
5462
5463			return 0;
5464			}
5465	root	1.387	%
5466	root	1.91	[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
5467			contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
5468	root	1.90	http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
5469	root	1.387	%
5470	root	1.90	[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
5471			Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
5472			the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
5473			rigorous government certification confirming this.
5474	root	1.387	%
5475	root	1.89	[mms_client after finishing the download]
5476			everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
5477			proprietary and patentend technology.
5478	root	1.387	%
5479	root	1.88	I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
5480	root	1.388	-- Aki Kaurismäki
5481	root	1.387	%
5482	root	1.87	[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
5483	root	1.388	"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
5484	root	1.87	with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
5485			construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
5486			the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
5487	root	1.387	%
5488	root	1.388	1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
5489			Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
5490	root	1.87	Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
5491	root	1.388	geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
5492			Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
5493	root	1.87	verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
5494	root	1.388	kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
5495	root	1.87
5496	root	1.388	2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
5497			2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
5498			Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
5499			und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
5500			gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
5501			unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
5502	root	1.87	Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
5503			Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
5504
5505	root	1.388	3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
5506			Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
5507			Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
5508			Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
5509			einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
5510			besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
5511			(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
5512			überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
5513			der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
5514			Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
5515	root	1.87	von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
5516	root	1.387	%
5517	root	1.87	[just FMI (for my information)]
5518			http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
5519	root	1.387	%
5520	root	1.87	[perldoc perlboot]
5521			Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
5522			multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
5523	root	1.387	%
5524	root	1.87	[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
5525			"linux" thing will fail]
5526			In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
5527			[...]
5528	root	1.247	Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
5529	root	1.87	compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
5530			to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
5531			effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
5532
5533			Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
5534			deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
5535			life to the public good.
5536
5537			You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
5538			You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
5539			Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
5540			so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
5541			software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
5542
5543			You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
5544			a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
5545			treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
5546			on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
5547			software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
5548			software to work on the linux kernel!
5549
5550			Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
5551			are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
5552			stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
5553			rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
5554			deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
5555	root	1.387	%
5556	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5557	root	1.247	What does line 4 do here?
5558			[...]
5559			This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
5560	root	1.387	%
5561	root	1.86	[perldoc perlreftut]
5562			Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
5563			blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
5564			program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
5565	root	1.387	%
5566	root	1.86	[rise and fall of free software standards]
5567	root	1.247	* GNU Gettext and %expect
5568			GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
5569			Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
5570			too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
5571			does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
5572	root	1.387	%
5573	root	1.86	Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
5574			-- Leonard Brandwein
5575	root	1.387	%
5576	root	1.85	[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr
5577	root	1.247	[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are?
5578			[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ??
5579			[11:58] <schmorp> nope
5580			[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue
5581			[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try"
5582			[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, sigh
5583			[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes?
5584			[12:00] <Zeograd> yes
5585			[12:00] <schmorp> ;);)
5586			[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful
5587			[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :)
5588	root	1.387	%
5589	root	1.247	[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu
5590			[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
5591	root	1.387	%
5592	root	1.84	A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
5593			United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
5594			interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
5595			his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
5596			collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
5597			assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
5598			jurisprudence fun?
5599			<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html>
5600	root	1.387	%
5601	root	1.247	[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it:
5602			[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
5603			[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
5604	root	1.84	[...]
5605	root	1.247	[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
5606	root	1.387	%
5607	root	1.84	[found at www.imdb.com]
5608			the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
5609			- Paul Ginsparg.
5610	root	1.387	%
5611	root	1.84	prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
5612			said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
5613			home.":))
5614			[erm...]
5615	root	1.387	%
5616	root	1.84	> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
5617
5618	root	1.247	Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
5619	root	1.387	%
5620	root	1.247	[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
5621	root	1.387	%
5622	root	1.83	[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
5623
5624			[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
5625			implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
5626			UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
5627			bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
5628	root	1.387	%
5629	root	1.83	.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
5630			/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
5631			.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
5632	root	1.387	%
5633	root	1.82	From: "David S. Miller"
5634	root	1.83
5635			> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
5636	root	1.82
5637			If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
5638			to use in future emails?
5639	root	1.387	%
5640	root	1.82	Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
5641			please?
5642
5643			I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
5644			a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
5645
5646	root	1.247	Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
5647	root	1.387	%
5648	root	1.82	Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
5649			Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
5650			last until February 16th 2003.
5651
5652			So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
5653			changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
5654			will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
5655			end.
5656
5657			The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
5658
5659			Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
5660			the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
5661			round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
5662			Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
5663			counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
5664			round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
5665			take place on October 27th.
5666
5667			The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
5668			of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
5669			Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
5670			the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
5671			Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
5672			the clock)...
5673	root	1.387	%
5674	root	1.81	[boycot your enemies]
5675			> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
5676			> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
5677			> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
5678			> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
5679
5680			Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
5681			cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay you to do kernel
5682			development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
5683			RedHat and SuSE).
5684
5685			I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
5686
5687			Pavel
5688	root	1.387	%
5689	root	1.81	Rik
5690	root	1.247	--
5691	root	1.81	A: No.
5692			Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
5693	root	1.387	%
5694	root	1.81	> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
5695	root	1.247	> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
5696			> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
5697	root	1.81
5698			I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
5699			no useful data.
5700
5701	root	1.247	--
5702	root	1.81	bill davidsen
5703	root	1.387	%
5704	root	1.80	In the switching software (written in C)
5705			there was a long do..while construct,
5706			which contained a switch statement,
5707			which contained an if clause,
5708			which contained a break,
5709			which was intended for the if clause,
5710			but instead broke from the switch statement.
5711
5712			- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
5713			network January 15, 1990
5714	root	1.387	%
5715	root	1.80	[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
5716
5717	root	1.247	They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
5718			told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
5719			stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
5720			violation of network policies.
5721	root	1.80
5722			[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
5723
5724			K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
5725			The format is as follows:
5726
5727			K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
5728	root	1.387	%
5729	root	1.79	[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
5730			"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
5731			http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
5732	root	1.387	%
5733	root	1.79	http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
5734			"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
5735			Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
5736			developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
5737			conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
5738			customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
5739			...
5740			"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
5741			Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
5742			the effort."
5743	root	1.387	%
5744	root	1.79	http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
5745	root	1.387	%
5746	root	1.79	[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
5747			gay people mad at me with this one...]
5748	root	1.78	[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
5749	root	1.247	Lukas vergleicht :)
5750			[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
5751	root	1.387	%
5752	root	1.76	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
5753	root	1.387	%
5754	root	1.76	http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
5755	root	1.387	%
5756	root	1.76	I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
5757			same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
5758			[Albert Cahalan]
5759	root	1.387	%
5760	root	1.75	The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
5761			externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
5762			least as bad, but lesser known.
5763	root	1.387	%
5764	root	1.75	There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
5765			line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
5766			different.
5767	root	1.387	%
5768	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.
5769	root	1.387	%
5770	root	1.76	[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
5771			http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
5772	root	1.387	%
5773	root	1.74	[about the early CD-R dyes]
5774			The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
5775			popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
5776			of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
5777			consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
5778			without a show.
5779	root	1.387	%
5780	root	1.76	[more of a timestamp]
5781	root	1.73	"SANS, SOUCI"
5782	root	1.387	%
5783	root	1.72	http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
5784	root	1.387	%
5785	root	1.71	The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
5786			http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
5787	root	1.387	%
5788	root	1.71	[Bruce Schneier]
5789			A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
5790			the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
5791	root	1.247	they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
5792	root	1.71	going on.
5793			[...]
5794	root	1.247	People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
5795			otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
5796			as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
5797	root	1.387	%
5798	root	1.70	[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
5799			opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
5800	root	1.387	%
5801	root	1.247	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
5802	root	1.387	%
5803	root	1.69	http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
5804	root	1.387	%
5805	root	1.69	[practical go humor]
5806			Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
5807			id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and insist you've won.
5808	root	1.387	%
5809	root	1.68	[windows API rocks]
5810			The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
5811			the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
5812			returned data.
5813
5814	root	1.247	typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
5815			FindExInfoStandard
5816			} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
5817	root	1.387	%
5818	root	1.388	[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
5819	root	1.67	[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
5820			[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
5821	root	1.247	kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
5822	root	1.387	%
5823	root	1.66	[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
5824			it doesn't work:]
5825			1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
5826			known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
5827			this MIME type as the final determination.
5828	root	1.387	%
5829	root	1.65	[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
5830
5831			Recode 0.1.1
5832			by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
5833
5834			About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
5835			three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
5836
5837			Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
5838	root	1.387	%
5839	root	1.65	http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
5840	root	1.387	%
5841	root	1.64	$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
5842	root	1.387	%
5843	root	1.64	[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
5844
5845			Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
5846			just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
5847			claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
5848			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp>
5849			<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>
5850			A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
5851			the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
5852			keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
5853			century."
5854
5855			Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
5856			where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
5857			that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
5858			carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
5859			has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
5860			that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
5861			such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
5862			to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
5863			decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
5864			past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
5865			naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
5866			motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
5867			clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
5868			<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp>
5869
5870			At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
5871			software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
5872			much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
5873			hilarious in light of the above.
5874			<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>
5875
5876			A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
5877			secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
5878			States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
5879			been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
5880			which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
5881			said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
5882			<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html>
5883
5884			Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
5885			someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
5886			numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
5887			Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
5888	root	1.65	<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845>
5889	root	1.387	%
5890	root	1.64	http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
5891	root	1.387	%
5892	root	1.388	ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
5893			zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
5894	root	1.387	%
5895	root	1.63	"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
5896			so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
5897			so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
5898
5899			Tony Hoare
5900	root	1.387	%
5901	root	1.388	Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
5902			vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
5903	root	1.63	_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
5904	root	1.388	Maßeinheit verwendet.
5905	root	1.387	%
5906	root	1.63	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
5907
5908			[...]
5909			The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
5910			by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
5911			system. Basically its windows computer
5912	root	1.387	%
5913	root	1.63	[go figure...]
5914	root	1.247	<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
5915	root	1.387	%
5916	root	1.63	Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
5917
5918			> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
5919			> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
5920			> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
5921			> software developers...
5922
5923			Homeopathic approach to software development?
5924	root	1.387	%
5925	root	1.63	> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
5926			> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
5927			> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
5928			>
5929			> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
5930
5931			Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
5932			badly with respect to patches, so far.
5933
5934			- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
5935			in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
5936
5937			- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
5938			but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
5939			off by throwing away the patch.
5940
5941			Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
5942			create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
5943			patch any time soon.
5944
5945			--
5946			Daniel
5947	root	1.387	%
5948	root	1.62	From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
5949			Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
5950			[...]
5951			Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
5952			be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
5953			next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
5954	root	1.387	%
5955	root	1.62	[no comments ;)]
5956
5957			I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
5958			It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
5959			Is it realy needed?
5960	root	1.387	%
5961	root	1.62	[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
5962
5963			int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
5964
5965			[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
5966			specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
5967			an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
5968	root	1.387	%
5969	root	1.62	[www.intel.com]
5970			Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
5971			extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
5972			the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
5973			download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
5974			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5975			and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
5976	root	1.387	%
5977	root	1.61	From: Alexander Viro
5978
5979			On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
5980			> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
5981			> > found in the CML2 sources.
5982			>
5983			> Btw, what happened to CML2?
5984
5985			This is an ex-parrot
5986	root	1.387	%
5987	root	1.61	From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
5988
5989			> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
5990			> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
5991			> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
5992			> > algorithm ever" etc.
5993			>
5994			> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
5995			> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
5996
5997			I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
5998
5999			while (!sorted(data))
6000			;
6001	root	1.387	%
6002	root	1.61	Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
6003			From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6004
6005			> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
6006
6007			You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
6008			to computing
6009	root	1.387	%
6010	root	1.61	From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
6011
6012			On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
6013			>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
6014
6015			Common sense, one would hope.
6016	root	1.387	%
6017	root	1.61	From: Toon Moene
6018			[...]
6019
6020			Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
6021			backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
6022			translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
6023
6024			http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
6025
6026			"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
6027			Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
6028			programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
6029			created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
6030
6031			:-)
6032	root	1.387	%
6033	root	1.247	"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
6034			lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
6035			their C programs."
6036	root	1.60
6037			Robert Firth
6038	root	1.387	%
6039	root	1.59	[miri@ccc.de]
6040	root	1.388	Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
6041	root	1.59	[and after some quarrel...]
6042			Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
6043	root	1.387	%
6044	root	1.68	[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
6045	root	1.388	Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
6046	root	1.387	%
6047	root	1.57	[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
6048			Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
6049	root	1.387	%
6050	root	1.68	[from windows' wininet.h]
6051	root	1.56	#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
6052	root	1.387	%
6053	root	1.388	Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
6054	root	1.56	in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
6055			selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
6056	root	1.388	dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
6057			eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
6058	root	1.56	erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
6059			vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
6060
6061			Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
6062
6063			\Gisbert
6064	root	1.387	%
6065	root	1.55	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
6066	root	1.387	%
6067	root	1.55	P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
6068			world like English did. Er, as English did...
6069			--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
6070	root	1.387	%
6071	root	1.54	From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de>
6072			Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
6073
6074			I don't have python. Any version of python.
6075			[...]
6076	root	1.387	%
6077	root	1.54	[perldoc Test::Harness]
6078			Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
6079			Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
6080
6081			ok 1
6082			# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
6083			not ok 2
6084			# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
6085	root	1.387	%
6086	root	1.54	I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
6087
6088			Cheers,
6089
6090			Andre Hedrick
6091			Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
6092	root	1.387	%
6093	root	1.54	> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
6094	root	1.247	>
6095	root	1.54	> Spinaphore :-)
6096
6097			Or mutabloat :-(
6098	root	1.387	%
6099	root	1.54	Microsoft Outlook IS the problem. Blaming it IS correct. Removing
6100			Outlook IS the solution.
6101	root	1.387	%
6102	root	1.54	Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
6103	root	1.387	%
6104	root	1.53	From: Ricky Beam
6105
6106			Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
6107			never bought anything from UUNet.
6108	root	1.387	%
6109	root	1.53	deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
6110			that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
6111			by delving below its surface meaning)
6112	root	1.387	%
6113	root	1.52	http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
6114	root	1.387	%
6115	root	1.52	From: Alan Cox
6116
6117			> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
6118			> just go to court and say:
6119
6120			Oh glorious naivety.
6121
6122			> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
6123			> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
6124			> can do the work better than I).
6125
6126			You release the code
6127
6128			The next day an injunction arrives in the post
6129
6130			The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
6131			preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
6132			by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
6133			doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
6134
6135			Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
6136			by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
6137
6138			A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
6139			because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
6140
6141			Then the court costs bankrupt you.
6142
6143			Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
6144			is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
6145			or that the good guys win.
6146
6147			This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
6148			US, and outside of most of the EU.
6149	root	1.387	%
6150	root	1.51	From: Alan Cox
6151
6152			[...]
6153			I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
6154			country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
6155	root	1.247	is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
6156	root	1.51	year to kill.
6157	root	1.387	%
6158	root	1.51	[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
6159			Windows UPnP Vulnerability
6160
6161			[...]
6162			Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
6163			center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
6164			of for Windows desktop systems."
6165			[...]
6166			eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
6167			months before Microsoft released its patch.
6168			[...]
6169			UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
6170			networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
6171			Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
6172			turned on by default.
6173			[...]
6174			The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
6175			delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
6176			these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
6177			[...]
6178			Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
6179			fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
6180			are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
6181			done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
6182			repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
6183			they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
6184			anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
6185			as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
6186			kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
6187	root	1.387	%
6188	root	1.50	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
6189	root	1.387	%
6190	root	1.49	[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
6191	root	1.388	Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
6192	root	1.49
6193			technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
6194
6195			Monday, 06. November 2000
6196	root	1.387	%
6197	root	1.247	[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
6198			[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
6199	root	1.387	%
6200	root	1.90	[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
6201	root	1.48	* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
6202			* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
6203			[too late, I broke the law, again!]
6204	root	1.387	%
6205	root	1.47	Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
6206			matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
6207			that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
6208			launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
6209	root	1.387	%
6210	root	1.47	> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
6211			> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
6212
6213			Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
6214			existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
6215			student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
6216	root	1.387	%
6217	root	1.47	From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
6218			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
6219
6220			> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
6221			> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
6222			> dropped patches.
6223
6224			Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
6225	root	1.247	wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
6226	root	1.47	people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
6227			lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
6228			know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
6229			patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
6230	root	1.387	%
6231	root	1.46	I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
6232			the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
6233			it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
6234	root	1.387	%
6235	root	1.45	From: "David S. Miller"
6236
6237			From: Bill Huey
6238			Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
6239
6240			Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
6241
6242			Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
6243	root	1.247	relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
6244	root	1.45	themselves.
6245
6246			Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
6247			certain.
6248	root	1.387	%
6249	root	1.45	> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
6250			> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
6251			> complains about kernel bloat" :)
6252
6253			And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
6254			appropriate approach to a problem.
6255	root	1.387	%
6256	root	1.388	From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi>
6257	root	1.44	^^^^
6258			[...]
6259			Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
6260			[...]
6261			-20 Long underwear is a good idea
6262			-15 Nice winter day
6263			-10 Slightly warm winter day
6264			-5 Nice warm winter day
6265			0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
6266	root	1.387	%
6267	root	1.44	No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
6268			entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
6269			of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
6270			suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
6271	root	1.387	%
6272	root	1.44	On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
6273			> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
6274
6275			Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
6276
6277			-ben
6278	root	1.387	%
6279	root	1.43	[...]
6280	root	1.247	[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> no, not spanish :)
6281			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
6282			[11:55] <\|Pixel\|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
6283			[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china
6284			[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman
6285			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> err
6286			[11:56] <\|Pixel\|> well :)
6287			[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
6288			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
6289			[11:57] <schmorp> ;->
6290			[11:57] <\|Pixel\|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
6291	root	1.387	%
6292	root	1.388	Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
6293			debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
6294	root	1.43	Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
6295	root	1.388	Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
6296			unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
6297			wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
6298			Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
6299			könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
6300			debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
6301	root	1.43	statt...
6302	root	1.387	%
6303	root	1.42	http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
6304	root	1.387	%
6305	root	1.42	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
6306			Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
6307			In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
6308			to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
6309			values." Who writes this stuff?
6310	root	1.387	%
6311	root	1.42	http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
6312	root	1.387	%
6313	root	1.41	> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
6314			> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
6315			> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
6316			> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
6317			> "Macao".
6318			> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
6319			> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
6320	root	1.387	%
6321	root	1.247	[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
6322	root	1.387	%
6323	root	1.40	Beitrag
6324	root	1.247	FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
6325	root	1.40
6326			fucklinux
6327
6328			IP: 217.83.123.198
6329
6330			1. FUCK LINUX
6331
6332	root	1.388	Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
6333	root	1.40
6334			Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
6335	root	1.387	%
6336	root	1.388	From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
6337	root	1.40
6338			[...]
6339			Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
6340			understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
6341			when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
6342			read...
6343	root	1.387	%
6344	root	1.39	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
6345			persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
6346			depends on the unreasonable man.
6347
6348			-George Bernard Shaw
6349	root	1.387	%
6350	root	1.38	[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
6351
6352			Filename: R16OS0B.zip
6353	root	1.247	Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
6354	root	1.387	%
6355	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:
6356	root	1.387	%
6357	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
6358			[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
6359			[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
6360			[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen
6361			[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
6362	root	1.387	%
6363	root	1.37	On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
6364			> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
6365	root	1.247	> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
6366	root	1.37	> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
6367			> Thanks for clearing this up.
6368	root	1.387	%
6369	root	1.247	It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
6370			It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
6371			It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
6372			It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
6373			It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
6374			It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
6375			It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
6376			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).
6377			It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
6378			It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
6379	root	1.387	%
6380	root	1.36	[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
6381			Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
6382			prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
6383			on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
6384			found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
6385			removed in Windows XP.
6386
6387			We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
6388			configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
6389			also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
6390			crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
6391	root	1.387	%
6392	root	1.36	[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
6393			The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
6394			security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
6395			Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
6396			System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
6397			DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
6398			they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
6399			was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
6400			system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
6401			trust either Ferguson or Intel.
6402
6403			Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
6404			without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
6405			developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
6406			withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
6407			less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
6408			you have no details?
6409			[...]
6410			<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html>
6411			<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html>
6412			Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
6413			counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
6414			said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
6415			-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
6416			the industrial terrorists want."
6417	root	1.387	%
6418	root	1.36	[Bruce Schneier]
6419			Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
6420	root	1.387	%
6421	root	1.247	telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
6422	root	1.387	%
6423	root	1.36	In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
6424			of each 50 days
6425	root	1.387	%
6426	root	1.36	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
6427
6428			>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
6429			>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
6430			>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
6431	root	1.387	%
6432	root	1.36	> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
6433			> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
6434			> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
6435	root	1.387	%
6436	root	1.35	On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
6437			> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
6438	root	1.247	>
6439	root	1.35	> <...>
6440			>
6441			> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
6442			> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
6443			> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
6444	root	1.247	> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
6445	root	1.387	%
6446	root	1.35	They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
6447			This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
6448			-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
6449	root	1.387	%
6450	root	1.35	> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
6451			> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
6452			> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
6453
6454	root	1.247	You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
6455			graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
6456			environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
6457			servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
6458			like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
6459			changing run level, interactive boot.
6460	root	1.35
6461			Alan
6462	root	1.387	%
6463	root	1.35	[http://thefreeworld.net/]
6464
6465			I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
6466			The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
6467
6468			First they came for the Communists,
6469			and I didn't speak up,
6470			because I wasn't a Communist.
6471			Then they came for the Jews,
6472			and I didn't speak up,
6473			because I wasn't a Jew.
6474			Then they came for the Catholics,
6475			and I didn't speak up,
6476			because I was a Protestant.
6477			Then they came for me,
6478			and by that time there was no one
6479			left to speak up for me.
6480
6481			by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
6482	root	1.387	%
6483	root	1.34	http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
6484	root	1.387	%
6485	root	1.34	If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
6486			-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
6487	root	1.387	%
6488	root	1.33	> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
6489			> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
6490			> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
6491			> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
6492
6493			I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
6494	root	1.387	%
6495	root	1.32	[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
6496
6497			"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
6498			area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
6499			to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
6500			bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
6501			used databases!"
6502	root	1.387	%
6503	root	1.32	From: Alexander Viro
6504
6505			> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
6506
6507			Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
6508			change that was not?
6509			[...]
6510	root	1.387	%
6511	root	1.31	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
6512
6513			[...]
6514
6515	root	1.247	I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
6516	root	1.31	dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
6517			lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
6518
6519	root	1.247	I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
6520	root	1.31	natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
6521			them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
6522			them anywhere else").
6523
6524			But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
6525			hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
6526	root	1.247	descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
6527	root	1.31	to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
6528			order..
6529
6530	root	1.247	(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
6531	root	1.31	borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
6532	root	1.387	%
6533	root	1.30	On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
6534			> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
6535			> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
6536
6537			Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
6538	root	1.387	%
6539	root	1.29	[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
6540	root	1.247	vertauschen (links-rechts).
6541			[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
6542			[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum
6543			[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
6544	root	1.387	%
6545	root	1.29	From: Bill Davidsen
6546			To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
6547
6548			I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
6549			management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
6550			new versions of stable kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
6551			existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
6552			series.
6553
6554			[...]
6555	root	1.387	%
6556	root	1.29	[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
6557	root	1.247	fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
6558	root	1.387	%
6559	root	1.29	On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
6560			>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
6561			>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
6562
6563			Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
6564			then save." g
6565
6566			/* Steinar */
6567	root	1.387	%
6568	root	1.29	> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
6569			> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
6570
6571			That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
6572			You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
6573			they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending them
6574			a bill...
6575	root	1.387	%
6576	root	1.29	[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
6577			>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
6578			>> additional _7_ CPUs!
6579
6580			Sorry. Mea culpa
6581
6582			--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
6583			+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
6584			@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
6585			* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
6586			* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
6587			*/
6588			- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
6589			+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
6590			/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
6591			int fpu_exception;
6592	root	1.387	%
6593	root	1.29	From: Alexander Viro
6594
6595			> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
6596
6597			ding ding ding we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
6598			started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
6599			ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
6600			they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
6601			a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
6602	root	1.387	%
6603	root	1.29	From: Linux Torvalds
6604
6605			In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
6606			people.
6607	root	1.387	%
6608	root	1.29	Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
6609			<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html>
6610
6611			Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
6612			laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
6613			week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
6614			in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
6615			the question.
6616			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd>
6617	root	1.387	%
6618	root	1.29	[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
6619			1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
6620			I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
6621			2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
6622			(September)
6623	root	1.387	%
6624	root	1.29	Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
6625	root	1.387	%
6626	root	1.29	[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
6627			idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
6628			throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
6629			http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
6630			[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
6631	root	1.387	%
6632	root	1.28	"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
6633			-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
6634	root	1.387	%
6635	root	1.28	<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
6636			<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
6637			<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
6638			<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
6639			<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
6640	root	1.387	%
6641	root	1.27	Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
6642	root	1.387	%
6643	root	1.27	EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
6644	root	1.387	%
6645	root	1.27	It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
6646			age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
6647			state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
6648			wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
6649			so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
6650			these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
6651			you tell them.
6652	root	1.387	%
6653	root	1.27	But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
6654			cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
6655			alcohol.
6656
6657			Regards
6658			Henning
6659	root	1.387	%
6660	root	1.27	> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
6661			> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
6662			> on a desktop system.
6663
6664			Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
6665			wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
6666
6667			C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
6668			transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
6669
6670			Alan
6671	root	1.387	%
6672	root	1.26	Hi Keith,
6673			kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
6674
6675			> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
6676			>
6677			> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
6678			> Use Welsh
6679
6680			Don't forget
6681
6682			CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
6683			Use Finnish
6684
6685			(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
6686
6687			And while we're at it,
6688
6689			CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
6690			Use German
6691
6692			CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
6693			Use English
6694
6695			MfG Kai
6696	root	1.387	%
6697	root	1.25	[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
6698
6699			This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
6700			bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
6701			verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
6702			forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
6703			Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
6704			there's no one thinking there.
6705			<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html>
6706	root	1.387	%
6707	root	1.24	Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
6708			scores the rules:
6709
6710			[*]
6711			Score:: =-9999
6712	root	1.247	Content-Type: multipart/alternative
6713	root	1.24	Content-Type: text/html;
6714			X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
6715			X-Mailer: Mozilla
6716			X-Newsreader: Microsoft
6717
6718			(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
6719			that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
6720			getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
6721			levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
6722			going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
6723
6724			I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
6725			Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
6726			wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
6727			clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
6728	root	1.387	%
6729	root	1.24	99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
6730			98 IIS servers online...
6731	root	1.387	%
6732	root	1.24	BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
6733			Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
6734			produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
6735			only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
6736
6737			US law does not apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
6738			it to be otherwise.
6739
6740			Abigail
6741	root	1.387	%
6742	root	1.23	4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
6743	root	1.387	%
6744	root	1.23	I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
6745	root	1.247	attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
6746	root	1.23	was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
6747	root	1.387	%
6748	root	1.22	[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
6749	root	1.247	si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
6750	root	1.387	%
6751	root	1.22	Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
6752			disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
6753			to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
6754			software people doing the same)
6755
6756			In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
6757			and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
6758			irrelevant
6759
6760			Alan
6761	root	1.387	%
6762	root	1.22	[from rfc2822]
6763			Comments may nest.
6764	root	1.387	%
6765	root	1.22	[from findas]
6766			# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
6767			# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
6768			# b) the database format is nonparsable
6769			# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
6770			# of course, the only source to find out about global
6771			# address distributino is... arin.
6772	root	1.387	%
6773	root	1.22	Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
6774			"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
6775	root	1.387	%
6776	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6777			On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
6778			> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
6779			> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
6780			> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
6781	root	1.247	>
6782	root	1.22	> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
6783
6784			$foot->insert($mouth);
6785
6786			# or is that
6787
6788			$mouth->insert($foot);
6789
6790			You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
6791			How utterly optimistic :-)
6792	root	1.387	%
6793	root	1.22	[From perl5-porters]
6794			>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
6795			>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
6796			>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
6797			>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
6798			>can see why it happens)
6799			>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
6800
6801			Well, there's perl... :)
6802	root	1.387	%
6803	root	1.21	[From pth-1.4.0]
6804			* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
6805			* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
6806			* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
6807			* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
6808	root	1.247	* boxes.
6809	root	1.387	%
6810	root	1.21	http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
6811			http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
6812			http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
6813	root	1.387	%
6814	root	1.388	Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
6815			zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
6816	root	1.387	%
6817	root	1.20	Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
6818			From: Juergen Christoffel
6819			Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
6820			To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
6821
6822			Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
6823
6824			a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
6825			Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
6826			einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
6827			schon;
6828
6829			b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
6830			Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
6831			auch mehr zum faedeln.
6832
6833			Danke, JC
6834	root	1.387	%
6835	root	1.19	[perl.c]
6836			#undef REASONABLE
6837	root	1.387	%
6838	root	1.18	And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
6839			about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
6840
6841			Alan
6842	root	1.387	%
6843	root	1.18	George Bonser writes:
6844			> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
6845			> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
6846			> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
6847	root	1.247	> client population that is out there without having to make them change
6848	root	1.18	> anything.
6849
6850			You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
6851			who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
6852	root	1.247	care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
6853			something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
6854	root	1.18	hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
6855			eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
6856
6857			To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
6858			chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
6859			Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
6860			always a good idea.
6861	root	1.387	%
6862	root	1.18	Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
6863			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
6864
6865	root	1.247	First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
6866	root	1.18	years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
6867	root	1.387	%
6868	root	1.18	[From the DOSEMU homepage]
6869			We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
6870			versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
6871			as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
6872	root	1.387	%
6873	root	1.18	Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
6874	root	1.387	%
6875	root	1.247	>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
6876	root	1.18
6877			WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
6878			enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
6879	root	1.387	%
6880	root	1.17	[the world will end soon. i promise!]
6881			I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
6882			like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
6883			to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
6884	root	1.387	%
6885	root	1.17	..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
6886	root	1.387	%
6887	root	1.17	Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
6888			programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
6889			good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
6890			burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
6891			misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
6892			ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
6893	root	1.387	%
6894	root	1.16	From: Victor Yodaiken
6895
6896			There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
6897			set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
6898			I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
6899			an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
6900			created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
6901			than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
6902			we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
6903	root	1.387	%
6904	root	1.16	[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
6905			good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
6906			future. Bleeeh]
6907
6908			From: Larry McVoy
6909
6910	root	1.247	I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
6911	root	1.16	are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
6912			like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
6913			exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
6914			programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
6915			exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
6916			the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
6917			not for the exceptional case.
6918	root	1.387	%
6919	root	1.16	Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
6920			semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
6921			overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
6922			versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
6923			Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
6924			created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
6925			stack.
6926
6927			Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
6928			garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
6929			relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
6930
6931			So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
6932			going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
6933	root	1.387	%
6934	root	1.16	From: Larry McVoy
6935
6936	root	1.247	> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
6937			> > if threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
6938			> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
6939			> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
6940	root	1.16	> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
6941	root	1.247	>
6942	root	1.16	> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
6943			> on the CPU?
6944
6945			Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
6946	root	1.247	that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
6947	root	1.16	died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
6948			system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
6949
6950			It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
6951			What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
6952			and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
6953			the point again".
6954	root	1.387	%
6955	root	1.16	From: Alan Cox
6956
6957	root	1.15	> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
6958			> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
6959	root	1.247	> be GPL'd header files.
6960	root	1.15	> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
6961	root	1.247	>
6962	root	1.15	> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
6963			> scenario.
6964
6965			Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
6966	root	1.387	%
6967	root	1.14	[configure --help]
6968	root	1.15	--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
6969			--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
6970			--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
6971	root	1.387	%
6972	root	1.14	I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
6973			tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
6974			others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
6975			character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
6976			very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
6977			they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
6978			world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
6979			if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
6980			anything.
6981	root	1.387	%
6982	root	1.247	[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
6983	root	1.387	%
6984	root	1.12	[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
6985			http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
6986	root	1.387	%
6987	root	1.11	[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
6988			On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
6989			> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
6990			> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
6991			> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
6992
6993			you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
6994	root	1.387	%
6995	root	1.11	From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
6996
6997			On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote:
6998
6999			>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
7000			>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
7001			>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
7002			>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
7003			>basics, I understood the power of the system.
7004
7005			My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
7006			package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
7007			only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
7008			either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
7009			consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
7010			the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
7011			seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
7012			seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
7013			to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
7014			for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
7015			It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
7016			to work through the learning curve.
7017	root	1.387	%
7018	root	1.11	[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
7019	root	1.247	Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
7020	root	1.387	%
7021	root	1.11	[VERY good movie]
7022			Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
7023	root	1.387	%
7024	root	1.11	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
7025			Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
7026	root	1.387	%
7027	root	1.10	[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
7028			Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
7029	root	1.388	großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
7030			sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
7031	root	1.10	erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
7032	root	1.387	%
7033	root	1.9	[alt.bible]
7034	root	1.247	Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
7035	root	1.9	is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
7036	root	1.387	%
7037	root	1.247	[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
7038			[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
7039	root	1.387	%
7040	root	1.9	[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
7041			Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
7042			unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
7043			die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
7044			festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
7045			E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
7046			3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
7047			Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
7048
7049	root	1.388	Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
7050	root	1.9	"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
7051	root	1.388	E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
7052	root	1.9	wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
7053			zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
7054
7055			Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
7056			verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
7057			guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
7058			verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
7059			in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
7060			insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
7061			Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
7062	root	1.388	§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
7063	root	1.9	bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
7064			vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
7065			m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
7066	root	1.387	%
7067	root	1.9	[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
7068			/*---.
7069			\| ? \|
7070			`---*/
7071	root	1.387	%
7072	root	1.9	Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
7073	root	1.387	%
7074	root	1.8	[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
7075			From: Joe Buck
7076			> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
7077			Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
7078	root	1.387	%
7079	root	1.8	[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
7080			Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
7081	root	1.387	%
7082	root	1.7	04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
7083	root	1.247	Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
7084	root	1.387	%
7085	root	1.4	[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
7086	root	1.247	[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
7087	root	1.387	%
7088	root	1.4	[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
7089	root	1.247	[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
7090	root	1.4	...
7091			[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
7092	root	1.387	%
7093	root	1.3	[From: Alan Cox]
7094	root	1.247	> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
7095			> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
7096			> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
7097
7098			I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
7099
7100			Alan
7101	root	1.387	%
7102	root	1.388	[JanMan über O'Reilly]
7103	root	1.247	[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
7104			[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
7105			[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
7106			[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
7107	root	1.387	%
7108	root	1.2	[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
7109	root	1.247	[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch:
7110			[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
7111			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
7112			[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
7113			[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
7114			[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
7115	root	1.387	%
7116	root	1.2	Hlade's Law:
7117			If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
7118			will find an easier way to do it.
7119	root	1.387	%
7120	root	1.388	[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
7121	root	1.7	"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] $Micro$oft-Fetischist$" gesetzt hat.]
7122			Paul wrote:
7123			>Marc wrote:
7124	root	1.2	>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
7125			> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
7126			> den richtigen.
7127	root	1.387	%
7128	root	1.1	[from janmans .sig]
7129			> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
7130	root	1.387	%
7131	root	1.1	[a small perl program]
7132			:(); { :: \| :: } ;
7133	root	1.387	%
7134	root	1.1	[a small fork-bomb for bash]
7135			:() { : \| : ;} ; :
7136	root	1.387	%
7137	root	1.1	[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
7138			New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
7139			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7140			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7141			<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
7142	root	1.387	%
7143	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7144			[...]
7145
7146			>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
7147
7148			Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
7149	root	1.387	%
7150	root	1.1	> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
7151			> constants.
7152
7153			I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
7154	root	1.247	Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
7155	root	1.1	would be conducive for further discussion.
7156	root	1.387	%
7157	root	1.247	> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
7158	root	1.1	> it might be useful?
7159
7160			I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
7161			room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
7162			much to do with IRC.
7163	root	1.387	%
7164	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
7165			Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
7166
7167			[...]
7168			Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
7169
7170			I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
7171			ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
7172	root	1.387	%
7173	root	1.1	[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
7174	root	1.247	[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
7175	root	1.387	%
7176	root	1.1	[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
7177
7178			Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
7179			Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
7180			clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
7181
7182			Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
7183			lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
7184			man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
7185			shows how much you know, pal.
7186
7187			The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
7188	root	1.387	%
7189	root	1.1	[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
7190			/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7191			Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
7192	root	1.387	%
7193	root	1.1	[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
7194			s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
7195			y yzzyyccss;;##s
7196			s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
7197	root	1.387	%
7198	root	1.1	[from the FWP mailinglist]
7199			> OR is spelled "\|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
7200			Your version of perl sucks.
7201	root	1.387	%
7202	root	1.247	[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh
7203			[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken
7204			[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche?
7205			[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
7206			[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
7207			[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand
7208			[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum
7209			[02:04] <elmex_> ;)
7210	root	1.1	[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
7211	root	1.247	[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch?
7212			[02:05] <schmorp> sigh
7213	root	1.387	%
7214	root	1.1	I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
7215			before you can understand it :)
7216	root	1.387	%
7217	root	1.1	> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
7218			> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
7219			> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
7220	root	1.247	> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
7221	root	1.1	> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
7222			> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
7223			> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
7224
7225			IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
7226			There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
7227			the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
7228			easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
7229			what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
7230			be worth attempting).
7231
7232			I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
7233			floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
7234			caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
7235
7236			Nick.
7237	root	1.387	%
7238	root	1.1	From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com>
7239			Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
7240			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
7241
7242	root	1.247	I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
7243	root	1.1	goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
7244			how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
7245			have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
7246			magic_bone@hotmail.com
7247	root	1.387	%
7248	root	1.1	> > > I guess then someone would want
7249			> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
7250			> > > to work :-)
7251	root	1.247	> >
7252	root	1.1	> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
7253	root	1.247	>
7254	root	1.1	> Eh?
7255	root	1.247	>
7256	root	1.1	> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
7257			> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
7258
7259			He didn't say it worked. :)
7260	root	1.387	%
7261	root	1.1	From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
7262
7263			On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
7264			> I find it irksome that
7265	root	1.247	>
7266	root	1.1	> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
7267
7268			...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
7269	root	1.387	%
7270	root	1.1	[a perl5 bug report]
7271			From: Simon Cozens
7272
7273			On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
7274			> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
7275			> Produces SIGSEGV.
7276
7277			Looks like a feature to me.
7278	root	1.387	%
7279	root	1.1	[Lukilein...]
7280	root	1.388	"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
7281	root	1.387	%
7282	root	1.1	[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
7283			intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
7284
7285			"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
7286			continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
7287			is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
7288			other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
7289
7290			"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
7291			simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
7292			would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
7293			you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
7294			large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
7295			part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
7296	root	1.387	%
7297	root	1.1	[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
7298			I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
7299			security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
7300			level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
7301			this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
7302			great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
7303			only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
7304			security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
7305			reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
7306			the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
7307			secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
7308			accurate and not subject to tampering."
7309
7310			Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
7311			better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
7312			hacker might read about it and break it. Who are these guys?
7313
7314			<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28>
7315	root	1.387	%
7316	root	1.1	It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
7317			more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
7318			impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
7319			Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
7320			Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
7321			likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
7322			replication."
7323			<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp>
7324	root	1.387	%
7325	root	1.1	[just some private thoughts]
7326			Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
7327
7328			IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
7329			shows.
7330
7331			First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
7332			transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
7333			totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
7334
7335			Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
7336			defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
7337			is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
7338			this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
7339			MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
7340
7341			Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
7342			to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
7343			up with a saner protocol.
7344	root	1.387	%
7345	root	1.1	[voting by television, the american way...]
7346			"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
7347			and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
7348
7349			Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
7350			cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
7351			voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
7352	root	1.387	%
7353	root	1.1	IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
7354			<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd>
7355			...and replaced it with something almost identical:
7356			<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml>
7357			A good analysis by John Gilmore:
7358			<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm>
7359	root	1.387	%
7360	root	1.1	[Midori-Linux FAQ]
7361			Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
7362	root	1.247	A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
7363			seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
7364			is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
7365			does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
7366	root	1.1	Netscape in a loop.
7367	root	1.387	%
7368	root	1.1	Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
7369	root	1.387	%
7370	root	1.1	[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
7371			marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
7372	root	1.247	mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
7373	root	1.1	marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
7374	root	1.247	hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
7375	root	1.387	%
7376	root	1.1	[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
7377			"ist mir egal"
7378	root	1.387	%
7379	root	1.1	From: Hans Reiser
7380			Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
7381
7382			Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
7383	root	1.387	%
7384	root	1.1	[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
7385			hallole
7386	root	1.387	%
7387	root	1.1	I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
7388			have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
7389			most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
7390	root	1.387	%
7391	root	1.1	1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
7392			1929 The high sign of refreshment
7393			1929 The pause that refreshes
7394			1930 It had to be good to get where it is
7395			1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
7396			1935 The pause that brings friends together
7397			1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
7398			1938 The best friend thirst ever had
7399			1939 Thirst stops here
7400			1942 It's the real thing
7401			1947 Have a Coke
7402			1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
7403			1963 Things go better with Coke
7404			1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
7405			1979 Have a Coke and a smile
7406			1982 Coke is it!
7407			-- Coca-Cola slogans
7408	root	1.387	%
7409	root	1.1	[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
7410			model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
7411	root	1.387	%
7412	root	1.247	[02:24] <elmex> schmorp:
7413			[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
7414	root	1.387	%
7415	root	1.388	[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
7416	root	1.1	Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
7417			erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
7418			islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
7419			Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
7420			ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
7421			Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
7422			wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
7423			erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
7424			booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
7425			einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
7426			Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
7427			- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
7428			(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
7429			Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
7430
7431			Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
7432			hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
7433	root	1.387	%
7434	root	1.1	[RMS about gcc snapshots]
7435			From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
7436
7437			[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
7438			uncool thing to do. [...]
7439	root	1.387	%
7440	root	1.1	"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
7441			betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
7442			[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
7443	root	1.387	%
7444	root	1.388	"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
7445	root	1.1	Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
7446	root	1.388	Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
7447	root	1.1
7448	root	1.388	"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
7449			daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
7450			vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren
7451			von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
7452	root	1.1	die Maschinen Platz."
7453			[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
7454	root	1.387	%
7455	root	1.1	My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
7456			software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
7457			Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
7458			work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
7459			doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
7460			problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
7461			like that is hell when you don't have the source.
7462
7463			And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
7464			run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
7465			whole system? Ugh, the horror.
7466	root	1.387	%
7467	root	1.1	> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
7468
7469			US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
7470	root	1.387	%
7471	root	1.1	Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
7472			to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
7473			to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
7474			beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
7475			at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
7476	root	1.247	one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
7477	root	1.387	%
7478	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse
7479			> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
7480			> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
7481
7482			Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
7483			is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
7484
7485			After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
7486	root	1.387	%
7487	root	1.1	http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
7488	root	1.387	%
7489	root	1.1	[recently on linux-kernel]
7490			From: Alan Cox
7491			> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
7492			> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
7493	root	1.247	>
7494			> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
7495	root	1.1
7496	root	1.247	Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
7497	root	1.1	users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
7498	root	1.387	%
7499	root	1.1	From: Russell King
7500			Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
7501			To: Albert D. Cahalan
7502
7503			Albert D. Cahalan writes:
7504			> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
7505			> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
7506			> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
7507
7508			iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
7509
7510			[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
7511	root	1.387	%
7512	root	1.388	[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
7513	root	1.1	der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
7514			dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
7515	root	1.247	[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
7516	root	1.387	%
7517	root	1.388	[über "Mediengestaltung"]
7518	root	1.247	[10:39] <elmex\|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
7519			[10:40] <schmorp> elmex\|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
7520	root	1.387	%
7521	root	1.1	[perldoc perlembed]
7522			You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
7523	root	1.387	%
7524	root	1.247	[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
7525	root	1.387	%
7526	root	1.247	[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
7527			[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
7528			nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
7529	root	1.387	%
7530	root	1.1	[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
7531			/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
7532			talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
7533			to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
7534			eloquent like `fuck'. */
7535	root	1.387	%
7536	root	1.1	[20:44] <elmex\|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
7537	root	1.387	%
7538	root	1.247	[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet
7539			[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
7540			[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
7541			[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon
7542			[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
7543			[09:41] <elmex> ?
7544			[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
7545	root	1.387	%
7546	root	1.1	[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
7547			for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
7548	root	1.387	%
7549	root	1.1	[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
7550			perl:]
7551
7552			$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
7553
7554			[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
7555			to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
7556			above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
7557			warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
7558			in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
7559			disable the message and pray it works"]
7560	root	1.387	%
7561	root	1.1	[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
7562			From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com>
7563			Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
7564			X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05>
7565
7566			I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
7567			can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
7568			i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
7569			know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
7570			better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
7571	root	1.387	%
7572	root	1.1	[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
7573			language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
7574			http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
7575	root	1.387	%
7576	root	1.1	[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
7577			* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
7578			* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
7579			* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
7580			* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
7581	root	1.387	%
7582	root	1.1	[from qmail's maildir(5)]
7583			Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
7584			operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
7585	root	1.387	%
7586	root	1.1	[Lukas Grundwald]
7587			Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
7588	root	1.387	%
7589	root	1.1	[waiting for windows...]
7590			http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
7591	root	1.387	%
7592	root	1.1	[x86 really is a cool design]
7593			> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
7594			> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
7595			> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
7596			> it's a hard requirement.
7597
7598			Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
7599			if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
7600			experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
7601			another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
7602			cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
7603			a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
7604			the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
7605			have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
7606	root	1.387	%
7607	root	1.1	> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
7608			> Netscape?"
7609	root	1.247
7610	root	1.1	can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
7611			netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
7612	root	1.387	%
7613	root	1.1	The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
7614			commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
7615			structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
7616			created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
7617			them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
7618			the specified task step-by-step.
7619	root	1.387	%
7620	root	1.1	There is an old programmer's rule.
7621
7622			"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
7623			be damned hard to understand."
7624	root	1.387	%
7625	root	1.1	[Linus]
7626			Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
7627			will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
7628			wrong. It's that simple.
7629	root	1.387	%
7630	root	1.1	[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
7631	root	1.247	09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
7632	root	1.1	[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
7633			site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
7634			never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on
7635	root	1.247	Undernet>
7636	root	1.387	%
7637	root	1.1	[character normalization might be harmful]
7638			> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
7639			> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
7640			> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
7641
7642			Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
7643			document that contains an element or attribute named
7644	root	1.388	"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
7645	root	1.1	A forged version of the document that contained the name
7646			"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
7647			a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
7648			might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
7649			and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
7650			now appears to have unlimited credit!
7651	root	1.387	%
7652	root	1.1	["my spam"]
7653			99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
7654			numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
7655			protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
7656			or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
7657			TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
7658	root	1.387	%
7659	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
7660			Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
7661			who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
7662			[... snip ...]
7663			never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
7664			tragedy...
7665	root	1.387	%
7666	root	1.1	From: "Mike A. Harris"
7667	root	1.247
7668	root	1.1	On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
7669			>---- A notice to spammers ----
7670			>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
7671			>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
7672			>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
7673			>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
7674			>message plus attorney's fees.
7675			[SNIP long sig]
7676	root	1.247
7677	root	1.1	O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
7678			most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
7679			all you're doing is contributing to it.
7680	root	1.247
7681	root	1.1	I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
7682			However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
7683			procmailable address.
7684	root	1.247
7685	root	1.1	One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
7686			means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
7687			just a waste of bandwidth.
7688	root	1.387	%
7689	root	1.388	rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
7690	root	1.387	%
7691	root	1.1	[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
7692			/bin/true --version \| read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
7693	root	1.387	%
7694	root	1.1	[stefan thought this would be better]
7695	root	1.247	/bin/true --version \| read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
7696	root	1.387	%
7697	root	1.1	[Java-Design]
7698	root	1.247	[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
7699			[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
7700			[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
7701	root	1.1	[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
7702	root	1.247	klasse, alles muell.
7703			[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
7704			[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
7705			[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
7706	root	1.387	%
7707	root	1.247	[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
7708	root	1.387	%
7709	root	1.247	[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
7710	root	1.1	[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
7711	root	1.247	missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
7712	root	1.387	%
7713	root	1.1	On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
7714			The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
7715			using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
7716			immediately and not block the calling process.
7717
7718			the man pages are wrong
7719
7720			--cw
7721	root	1.387	%
7722	root	1.1	From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
7723			...
7724			My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
7725	root	1.387	%
7726	root	1.1	[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
7727			Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
7728	root	1.387	%
7729	root	1.1	From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
7730			> tar cvpf - foo \| ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
7731			> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
7732
7733			How fast does it oops?
7734	root	1.387	%
7735	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
7736
7737			On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
7738			> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
7739			> touch is 2Gig.
7740
7741			In theory, yes.
7742			In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
7743			2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
7744	root	1.387	%
7745	root	1.247	[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7746			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \| \| \| \|
7747			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|-----\| \| \| \|
7748			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-------------------------\| \| \| \|
7749			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| .---------------------------.\| \|-------\|
7750			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \| \|Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de\|\| \| \|
7751			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| `---------------------------'\| \| \|
7752			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|----------\| \|-----------------------\| \|
7753			[10:44] <elmex> \| \| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7754			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \|-----\| \|
7755			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|------------\|-------------- \| \| \|
7756			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-----------------------------------\|-\| \|----\|
7757			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \|-\| \| \| \| \|
7758			[10:44] <elmex> \| \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7759			[10:44] <elmex> \|-\| \| \| \| \| \|
7760			[10:44] <elmex> --------------------------------------------------------
7761	root	1.387	%
7762	root	1.1	Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
7763	root	1.387	%
7764	root	1.1	"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
7765			like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
7766			[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
7767			take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
7768			-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
7769	root	1.387	%
7770	root	1.1	"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
7771			[Lukas Grunwald]
7772	root	1.387	%
7773	root	1.1	[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
7774			From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
7775			Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
7776			To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
7777
7778			Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
7779			> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
7780			> > prompt.
7781			> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
7782			> /proc/info/authors?
7783	root	1.247
7784	root	1.1	Grand idea.
7785			Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
7786			/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
7787			/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
7788			/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
7789			/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
7790	root	1.247
7791	root	1.1	NOT.
7792			[...]
7793	root	1.387	%
7794	root	1.1	[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
7795			Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
7796			From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
7797	root	1.247
7798	root	1.1	On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
7799			> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
7800			> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
7801			> an interesting experiment.
7802	root	1.247
7803	root	1.1	Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
7804			about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
7805			to disagree...
7806	root	1.387	%
7807	root	1.1	http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
7808			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
7809			http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
7810			[und Lukas sagt:]
7811			... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
7812	root	1.387	%
7813	root	1.1	[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
7814			report:]
7815			... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
7816			the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
7817			second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
7818			excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
7819	root	1.387	%
7820	root	1.1	[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
7821			http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
7822	root	1.387	%
7823	root	1.1	["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
7824			From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
7825			Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
7826
7827			Alexander Viro wrote:
7828			> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
7829			> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
7830			>
7831			> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
7832			> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
7833			> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
7834			> UNIX.
7835
7836			Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
7837			compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
7838			docs... ew!
7839	root	1.387	%
7840	root	1.1	> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
7841			> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
7842			> protected mode?
7843
7844			From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
7845			with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
7846			registers loaded ;)
7847	root	1.387	%
7848	root	1.1	> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
7849			[...]
7850			> backports hurt forward progress.
7851
7852			beware of content free dogma
7853	root	1.387	%
7854	root	1.1	> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
7855			> wondering.
7856
7857			Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
7858			has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
7859			unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
7860			Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
7861			and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
7862			machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
7863			no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
7864
7865			Markus [G. Kuhn]
7866	root	1.387	%
7867	root	1.1	>Keith,
7868	root	1.247	>
7869	root	1.1	>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
7870			>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
7871			>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
7872
7873			I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
7874			utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
7875			of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
7876			not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
7877			added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
7878			are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
7879			do the right thing.
7880
7881			Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
7882			and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
7883			unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
7884			distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
7885			and they have to fix it.
7886	root	1.387	%
7887	root	1.1	10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
7888			[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset;
7889			[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
7890			[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
7891	root	1.387	%
7892	root	1.1	[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
7893			printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
7894	root	1.387	%
7895	root	1.1	On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
7896			> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
7897			> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
7898			> midgets and what I should expect or not.
7899
7900			You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
7901			You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
7902	root	1.387	%
7903	root	1.1	[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
7904			gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
7905	root	1.387	%
7906	root	1.1	[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
7907			glibc-2.2 was released]
7908			Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
7909	root	1.387	%
7910	root	1.1	[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
7911	root	1.387	%
7912	root	1.1	# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
7913			# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
7914			# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
7915	root	1.387	%
7916	root	1.1	<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
7917			<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate
7918			<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
7919	root	1.387	%
7920	root	1.1	[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
7921
7922			(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
7923			standards-compliant.
7924			(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
7925			(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx&notes=77" doesn't contain a valid
7926			entity, so the browser must use it as is.
7927			(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser
7928			must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
7929			(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
7930	root	1.387	%
7931	root	1.1	[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
7932			> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
7933			> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
7934
7935			That's your problem.
7936
7937			There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
7938
7939			Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
7940			(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
7941	root	1.387	%
7942	root	1.1	> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
7943			> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
7944			> > out there) in the foot?
7945
7946			> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
7947
7948			True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
7949			themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
7950			for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
7951	root	1.387	%
7952	root	1.1	> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
7953			> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
7954			> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
7955
7956			No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
7957			after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
7958			perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
7959			PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
7960			_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
7961			--
7962			Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
7963	root	1.387	%
7964	root	1.1	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
7965
7966			> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
7967			>
7968			> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
7969			> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
7970			>
7971			> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
7972
7973			[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
7974	root	1.387	%
7975	root	1.388	[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
7976			daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
7977			"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
7978	root	1.1	Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
7979	root	1.387	%
7980	root	1.1	[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
7981			which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
7982			Bullschildt below ;)]
7983
7984			"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
7985			do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
7986	root	1.387	%
7987	root	1.1	Stefan Traby wrote:
7988			>
7989			> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
7990			>
7991			> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
7992			>
7993			> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
7994	root	1.387	%
7995	root	1.1	> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
7996
7997			I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
7998			it did the same thing.
7999
8000			Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
8001			a week ago. :(
8002
8003			--Jack
8004	root	1.387	%
8005	root	1.388	"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
8006	root	1.387	%
8007	root	1.1	[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
8008			-- K&R
8009	root	1.387	%
8010	root	1.1	<elmex> JanMan: "\|\|01:42:20\|\| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
8011	root	1.387	%
8012	root	1.1	[please kids, don't try this at home]
8013			indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
8014	root	1.387	%
8015	root	1.1	http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
8016	root	1.387	%
8017	root	1.1	[PApp.pm]
8018			$modules => { "" => "" };
8019	root	1.387	%
8020	root	1.388	Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
8021	root	1.387	%
8022	root	1.1	<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
8023	root	1.387	%
8024	root	1.1	[From Russel Coker's .sig]
8025			> --
8026			> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
8027			> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
8028	root	1.387	%
8029	root	1.1	[the two sides of the medal]
8030			From: "David Schwartz"
8031
8032			> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
8033			> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
8034			> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
8035			> pretty spiffy.
8036
8037			Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
8038			to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
8039			factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
8040			implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
8041	root	1.387	%
8042	root	1.1	[lukas grunwald...]
8043	root	1.388	[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
8044	root	1.387	%
8045	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
8046			> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
8047			> of having bough one.
8048
8049			Not an uncommon thought :)
8050	root	1.387	%
8051	root	1.1	From: Stefan Traby
8052
8053			Hi Marc !
8054
8055			keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
8056			keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
8057			keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
8058
8059			Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
8060	root	1.387	%
8061	root	1.1	[I hope you get the point(s)...]
8062			From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
8063			Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
8064			To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
8065
8066			At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
8067			>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
8068			>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
8069
8070			Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
8071			all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
8072			which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
8073			remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
8074			[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
8075			and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
8076
8077			>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
8078			>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
8079
8080			And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
8081			separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
8082			them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
8083			right to left.
8084
8085			>But no culture
8086			>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
8087			>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
8088			>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
8089			>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
8090			>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
8091
8092			Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
8093
8094			--Alex
8095	root	1.387	%
8096	root	1.1	[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
8097			From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
8098			To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk>
8099
8100			[most of the reply snipped...]
8101
8102			> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
8103			> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
8104			> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
8105
8106			[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
8107
8108			These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
8109			the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
8110			grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
8111			forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
8112			and quotes from questions in FAQs.
8113
8114			(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
8115			attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
8116			try to claim that they do?)
8117	root	1.387	%
8118	root	1.1	On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
8119
8120			> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
8121			> {
8122			> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
8123			> flush(load);
8124			> else
8125			> wear(load);
8126			> }
8127
8128			But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
8129			purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
8130
8131			In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
8132			calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
8133
8134			--
8135			dwmw2
8136	root	1.387	%
8137	root	1.1	Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
8138			are are overturned.
8139	root	1.387	%
8140	root	1.1	"Going into court is throwing the dice."
8141	root	1.387	%
8142	root	1.1	[Dipl. Ing. W***** D*****]
8143			"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
8144	root	1.388	für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
8145			verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
8146	root	1.387	%
8147	root	1.1	[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
8148			Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
8149			Marc gives some dumb comments.
8150			Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
8151			Marc: Yeah.. and?
8152			Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
8153			Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
8154	root	1.387	%
8155	root	1.1	[t-online is just sooo cool:]
8156			Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
8157			From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de>
8158
8159			\|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------\|
8160			<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
8161			\|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------\|
8162	root	1.387	%
8163	root	1.1	[a play with a well-known-signature:]
8164			Deadlock, n.:
8165			Deceased Rasterman.
8166	root	1.387	%
8167	root	1.1	[Jeff Williams & friends]
8168			ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
8169			http://IPv8.vrx.net/
8170			http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
8171	root	1.387	%
8172	root	1.1	[some .signature]
8173			This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
8174	root	1.387	%
8175	root	1.1	[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
8176			Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
8177	root	1.388	mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
8178			Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
8179			zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
8180			nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
8181	root	1.1	reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
8182			das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
8183	root	1.388	Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
8184			Positionen für unwählbar.
8185	root	1.1
8186			Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
8187	root	1.387	%
8188	root	1.1	From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
8189			Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
8190			Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
8191
8192			Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
8193
8194			> Their opinion: "well, everybody knows that this is not professional,
8195			> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
8196			> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
8197			> but WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN was to write these programs in Haskell.
8198			> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
8199
8200			A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
8201			She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
8202			on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
8203			students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
8204			refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
8205			results simply because I make a mistake!
8206
8207			In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
8208			students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
8209			errors.
8210
8211			So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
8212			North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
8213			European programmers liking to do programming right and American
8214			programmers liking to chase after bugs.
8215	root	1.387	%
8216	root	1.1	On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
8217			> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
8218			> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
8219			> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
8220			>
8221			> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
8222	root	1.387	%
8223	root	1.1	"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
8224			of nothing."
8225	root	1.387	%
8226	root	1.1	[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
8227			Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
8228			>
8229			> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
8230			> CPU?
8231
8232			Root password? :)
8233
8234			John.Fulmer
8235	root	1.387	%
8236	root	1.1	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
8237
8238			Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
8239	root	1.387	%
8240	root	1.1	> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO IF this is available to them. If not, they
8241			> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
8242			> which I prefer...
8243
8244			Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
8245			to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
8246			works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
8247			scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
8248			updater for the new SCSI controller.
8249			--
8250			Horst von Brand
8251	root	1.387	%
8252	root	1.1	[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
8253
8254			>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
8255
8256			[...]
8257
8258			Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
8259	root	1.387	%
8260	root	1.1	[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
8261			at your problem:]
8262
8263			The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
8264			a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
8265			had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
8266	root	1.387	%
8267	root	1.1	[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
8268			cp is inherently inefficient.
8269	root	1.387	%
8270	root	1.1	>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
8271			>breaking seals on them.
8272
8273			Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
8274			nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
8275			hard drive then it's not strong enough!
8276
8277			...
8278
8279			There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
8280			did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
8281			killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
8282			could be just an urban myth though.
8283
8284			Russell Coker
8285	root	1.387	%
8286	root	1.1	>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
8287			>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
8288
8289			Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
8290	root	1.387	%
8291	root	1.1	On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
8292			> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
8293			> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
8294			> > deleting.
8295			>
8296			> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
8297
8298			Wrong. Yury does.
8299			:(
8300
8301			--
8302			Stefan
8303	root	1.387	%
8304	root	1.1	"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
8305			> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
8306			> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
8307			> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
8308			> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
8309			> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
8310			> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
8311
8312			DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
8313
8314			Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
8315	root	1.387	%
8316	root	1.1	[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
8317	root	1.388	00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
8318	root	1.1	Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
8319	root	1.388	Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
8320			einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
8321	root	1.387	%
8322	root	1.1	[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
8323			> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
8324			> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
8325			> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
8326			> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
8327			> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
8328			> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
8329			> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
8330			> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
8331			> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
8332	root	1.387	%
8333	root	1.388	[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
8334			installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
8335			Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
8336	root	1.1	aus!
8337	root	1.387	%
8338	root	1.1	[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
8339			http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
8340	root	1.387	%
8341	root	1.1	[On the reality of random numbers]
8342			> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
8343			> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
8344			Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
8345	root	1.387	%
8346	root	1.1	[Flame Warriors]
8347			http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
8348	root	1.387	%
8349	root	1.1	A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
8350			functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
8351			more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
8352			fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
8353
8354			--tom
8355	root	1.387	%
8356	root	1.1	To: bugs@gimp.org
8357			X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
8358
8359			Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
8360			problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
8361			it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
8362			editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
8363			whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
8364	root	1.387	%
8365	root	1.1	["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
8366			VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
8367			lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
8368			a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
8369			solutions.
8370
8371			http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
8372
8373			[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
8374			rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
8375			the background]
8376	root	1.387	%
8377	root	1.1	[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
8378			Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
8379			Security Response Center:
8380
8381			This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
8382			virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
8383
8384			[and later]
8385			Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
8386
8387			This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
8388
8389			[Phil closes]
8390			Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
8391
8392			[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
8393			[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
8394	root	1.387	%
8395	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
8396			Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
8397			2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
8398			even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
8399			system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
8400			vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
8401			Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
8402	root	1.387	%
8403	root	1.1	>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
8404			>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
8405			>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
8406			>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
8407
8408			[Trashey / Quasars]
8409	root	1.387	%
8410	root	1.1	Tom Christiansen writes:
8411			> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
8412			> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
8413
8414			Irony potential in
8415
8416			man perlrtfm
8417
8418			is left to the reader.
8419
8420			Nat
8421	root	1.387	%
8422	root	1.1	Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
8423			and encryption as in NTFSv2?
8424
8425			(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
8426			private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
8427	root	1.387	%
8428	root	1.1	[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
8429			Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
8430			Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
8431	root	1.387	%
8432	root	1.1	"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
8433			same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
8434			Paul Tomblin
8435	root	1.387	%
8436	root	1.1	[recently on p5p]
8437			>I am morally
8438			>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
8439
8440			Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
8441			possibility...
8442
8443			Dan
8444	root	1.387	%
8445	root	1.1	[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
8446	root	1.388	<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
8447	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 :)
8448			<Mr> zugabe
8449	root	1.387	%
8450	root	1.1	"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
8451			Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
8452	root	1.387	%
8453	root	1.1	DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
8454			[cobol, sigh]
8455	root	1.387	%
8456	root	1.1	It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
8457			operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
8458			on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
8459			desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
8460			scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
8461			age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
8462			system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
8463			so as to reveal the basic system issues.
8464
8465			Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
8466	root	1.387	%
8467	root	1.1	"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
8468
8469			"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
8470			not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
8471			may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
8472			after they regain their composure."
8473
8474			-- Paul Rinaldo
8475			[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
8476	root	1.387	%
8477	root	1.1	On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
8478			>
8479			> In case you guys havn't noticed...
8480			>
8481			> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
8482
8483			Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
8484
8485			Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
8486
8487			;-}
8488
8489			--
8490
8491			ciao -
8492			Stefan
8493
8494	root	1.387	%
8495	root	1.1	> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
8496			> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
8497
8498			No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
8499			mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
8500			guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
8501			'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
8502			one' type remarks.
8503			[Alan Cox]
8504	root	1.387	%
8505	root	1.1	Godwin's Law
8506
8507			As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
8508			involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
8509
8510			[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
8511	root	1.387	%
8512	root	1.1	["Stefan im IRC."]
8513
8514			[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
8515			[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi
8516			[01:53:31] <coda> haha
8517	root	1.387	%
8518	root	1.1	[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
8519			Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
8520			The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
8521			requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
8522	root	1.387	%
8523	root	1.1	[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
8524			> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
8525
8526			Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
8527			is to me ok.
8528	root	1.387	%
8529	root	1.1	"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
8530
8531			"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
8532	root	1.387	%
8533	root	1.1	[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
8534			Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
8535	root	1.387	%
8536	root	1.1	Remember, never ask a geek "why";
8537			just nod your head and back away slowly...
8538	root	1.387	%
8539	root	1.1	The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
8540			files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
8541			to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
8542
8543			Ralf
8544	root	1.387	%
8545	root	1.1	It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
8546			care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
8547			95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
8548
8549			david parsons
8550	root	1.387	%
8551	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8552			> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
8553
8554			>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
8555			>so that trick is not portable.
8556
8557			% grep localhost /etc/hosts
8558			127.0.0.1 localhost
8559
8560			--tom
8561	root	1.387	%
8562	root	1.1	["some time ago on p5p"]
8563			On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
8564			> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
8565			> >the question is moot.
8566			>
8567			> I'll send you a free Unix system.
8568
8569			Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
8570
8571			Ilya
8572	root	1.387	%
8573	root	1.1	[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
8574			> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
8575			> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
8576			> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
8577			> trying.
8578
8579			Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
8580			fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
8581	root	1.387	%
8582	root	1.1	[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
8583			... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
8584			ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
8585			outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
8586	root	1.387	%
8587	root	1.1	[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
8588			I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
8589			his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
8590	root	1.387	%
8591	root	1.1	[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
8592			> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
8593			> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
8594			> blocking :-)
8595
8596			That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
8597			validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
8598			people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
8599			people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
8600			reasons.
8601
8602			DS
8603	root	1.387	%
8604	root	1.1	[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
8605	root	1.388	Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
8606	root	1.1	geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
8607	root	1.388	und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
8608	root	1.1	hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
8609
8610			Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
8611	root	1.388	üblich, erschossen wurde.
8612	root	1.387	%
8613	root	1.1	> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
8614			[...]
8615			> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
8616			[...]
8617
8618			You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
8619			You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
8620			Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
8621			with each other on the same channel.
8622
8623			IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
8624			hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
8625
8626			This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
8627	root	1.387	%
8628	root	1.1	[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
8629			"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
8630	root	1.387	%
8631	root	1.1	Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
8632	root	1.387	%
8633	root	1.1	[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
8634			ANY word at all is a candidate.
8635			USE words to see the entire dictionary.
8636			ok
8637	root	1.387	%
8638	root	1.1	[SDF for POD Users]
8639			... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
8640	root	1.387	%
8641	root	1.1	<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
8642			<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
8643			<Xach> schmorp: Mitch
8644			<schmorp> xach: ok.
8645			<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
8646			<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
8647			<Xach> burrito, focus
8648			<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON!
8649	root	1.387	%
8650	root	1.1	[Paul Miller]
8651			... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
8652			using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
8653			tested it." ...
8654	root	1.387	%
8655	root	1.1	Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
8656	root	1.387	%
8657	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
8658
8659			Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
8660			>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
8661			>
8662			>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
8663			>
8664			>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
8665			>
8666			>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
8667			>
8668			>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
8669			>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
8670			>systems.
8671
8672
8673			Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
8674			had.
8675
8676			--
8677			Neal Bridges
8678	root	1.387	%
8679	root	1.1	On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
8680
8681			> Hi folks,
8682			> 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?
8683			> please reply to
8684			> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
8685			> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
8686
8687			Parse error.
8688
8689			---
8690			Alex
8691	root	1.387	%
8692	root	1.1	From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
8693
8694			> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
8695			> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
8696
8697			Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
8698			amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
8699			the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
8700
8701			That doesn't mean that I don't want my program to be clean ANSI C.
8702	root	1.387	%
8703	root	1.1	[one of the few good us movies]
8704	root	1.388	Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
8705	root	1.387	%
8706	root	1.1	[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
8707			ii = 44;
8708			p = &ii;
8709			p = ii/p;
8710			ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
8711			printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
8712	root	1.387	%
8713	root	1.1	> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
8714			> Linux time then.
8715
8716			Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
8717
8718			They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
8719			Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
8720
8721			Roger.
8722	root	1.387	%
8723	root	1.1	<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :)
8724	root	1.387	%
8725	root	1.1	auto accident;
8726			register voters;
8727			static electricity;
8728			struct by_lightning;
8729			void *where_prohibited;
8730			char broiled;
8731			short circuit;
8732			short changed;
8733			long johns;
8734			unsigned long letter;
8735			double entendre;
8736			double trouble;
8737			union organizer;
8738			float valve;
8739			short pants;
8740			union station;
8741			void check; unsigned check;
8742			struct dumb by[sizeof member];
8743	root	1.387	%
8744	root	1.1	[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments]
8745			22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA
8746			- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King
8747	root	1.388	verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil.
8748	root	1.387	%
8749	root	1.1	Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote:
8750
8751			I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000
8752			worstation.
8753	root	1.387	%
8754	root	1.1	I wrote
8755			> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less.
8756			$/
8757
8758			Damn shift key.
8759
8760
8761			Mike Guy
8762	root	1.387	%
8763	root	1.1	[rfc2635]
8764			The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or
8765			netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a
8766			movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes
8767			over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists
8768			of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so
8769			closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts
8770			take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been
8771			pushed into common usage in the Internet community.
8772	root	1.387	%
8773	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999]
8774
8775			The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE
8776
8777			Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
8778			device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
8779			simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus
8780			is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering.
8781
8782			http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
8783	root	1.387	%
8784	root	1.1	: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as
8785			: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here?
8786
8787			It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void
8788			context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and
8789			now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very
8790			easy to bother.
8791
8792			The argument against using an operator for other than its primary
8793			purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have
8794			sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects
8795			are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect.
8796
8797			That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself.
8798
8799			Larry
8800	root	1.387	%
8801	root	1.1	[that one's only for insiders...]
8802			> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored
8803			Yeah. :-)
8804	root	1.387	%
8805	root	1.1	[comp.lang.forth]
8806			> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe:
8807			[...]
8808			> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point.
8809
8810			Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically
8811			penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well).
8812			I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own
8813			fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin).
8814
8815			Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and
8816			whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother
8817			with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this
8818			receipts aren't used anymore.
8819	root	1.387	%
8820	root	1.1	Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows
8821			installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der
8822			Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist.
8823	root	1.387	%
8824	root	1.1	> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen
8825			> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!"
8826			> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts
8827			> versteht?"
8828	root	1.387	%
8829	root	1.1	[de.alt.anime]
8830			Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape
8831			"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf
8832			der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im
8833	root	1.388	Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über
8834	root	1.1	dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist
8835	root	1.388	mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren
8836	root	1.1	geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese
8837			Frage erneut aufgeworfen.
8838			ji!
8839	root	1.387	%
8840	root	1.1	I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came
8841			in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
8842			[Larry Wall]
8843	root	1.387	%
8844	root	1.1	Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der
8845			Altpreussen.
8846			- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in
8847			de.soc.politik.deutschland
8848	root	1.387	%
8849	root	1.1	> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die
8850			> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen
8851			> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche
8852			> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-)
8853			>
8854	root	1.388	> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts
8855			> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der
8856	root	1.1	> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)...
8857
8858	root	1.388	Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell,
8859	root	1.1	Norbert?
8860	root	1.387	%
8861	root	1.208	Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html
8862	root	1.1	Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um
8863			"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen.
8864	root	1.387	%
8865	root	1.1	http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/
8866	root	1.387	%
8867	root	1.1	<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!"
8868	root	1.387	%
8869	root	1.1	Subject: GNU compiler
8870			From: "Steve"
8871			Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400
8872			To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
8873			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
8874
8875			[the following was a single line, of course]
8876			I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the
8877			instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand
8878			how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from
8879			several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your
8880			assistance would be greatly appreciated
8881
8882			Thanks,
8883
8884			Steve
8885	root	1.387	%
8886	root	1.1	[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:]
8887			> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not
8888			> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a
8889			> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI??
8890	root	1.387	%
8891	root	1.1	<tigert> xachbot, op
8892			<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools.
8893			<tigert> ahem
8894	root	1.387	%
8895	root	1.1	<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR
8896			-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records \| See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached)
8897			<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot
8898	root	1.387	%
8899	root	1.1	[the release of perl 5.000]
8900			Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700
8901			From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com>
8902			Subject: It's soup.
8903
8904			Okay, it's there.
8905
8906			ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz
8907
8908			The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot.
8909
8910			Larry
8911	root	1.387	%
8912	root	1.1	l33+ h4X0rz
8913	root	1.387	%
8914	root	1.1	# A random text generator using Markov chains
8915			perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i]
8916			}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b;
8917			&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand
8918			($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file
8919	root	1.387	%
8920	root	1.1	> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url
8921			> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P
8922			>
8923			> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is.
8924			> And there's no mouse.
8925			>
8926			> Abigail
8927
8928			Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool.
8929
8930			Matt.
8931	root	1.387	%
8932	root	1.1	Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big
8933			giant global interpreter lock. :-)
8934
8935			- --tom
8936	root	1.387	%
8937	root	1.1	From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
8938			Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
8939
8940			On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
8941			>
8942			> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
8943			> 2.2.11 release?
8944
8945			[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
8946
8947			Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
8948
8949			Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.
8950	root	1.387	%
8951	root	1.1	Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you want to get the point?
8952	root	1.387	%
8953	root	1.1	["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"]
8954			On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote:
8955			> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some
8956			> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process
8957			> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite
8958			> that much ;-)
8959
8960			IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be.
8961	root	1.387	%
8962	root	1.1	MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full
8963			preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications.
8964	root	1.387	%
8965	root	1.1	[comments on the gcc-2.95 release]
8966			<QUOTE>
8967			I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas?
8968
8969			(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm
8970			gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-)
8971			</QUOTE>
8972	root	1.387	%
8973	root	1.1	The Internet interprets Windows as damage,
8974			and routes around it.
8975
8976			Roger Larsson
8977	root	1.388	Skellefteå
8978	root	1.387	%
8979	root	1.1	[configuring gcc]
8980			Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local
8981	root	1.387	%
8982	root	1.1	'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection,
8983			except the problem of too many levels of indirection.'
8984	root	1.387	%
8985	root	1.1	[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html]
8986
8987			Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it
8988			comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are
8989			finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT
8990			on different JVMs.
8991
8992			[and later]
8993
8994			Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of
8995			adventure gaming:
8996
8997			1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine.
8998			2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down.
8999	root	1.387	%
9000	root	1.1	[the \|\|-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as
9001			"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?]
9002
9003			>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes:
9004
9005			NK> ?? -> huh?
9006
9007			That's a great name. The huh? operator.
9008
9009			<chaim>
9010	root	1.387	%
9011	root	1.1	`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix
9012			code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other
9013			languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where
9014			people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful
9015			numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their
9016			specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.'
9017	root	1.387	%
9018	root	1.1	[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12]
9019	root	1.388	Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke.
9020	root	1.387	%
9021	root	1.1	[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing
9022			Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html
9023			page]
9024			... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the
9025			value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you
9026			must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work
9027			properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even
9028			though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to
9029			OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the
9030			value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to
9031			disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR.
9032			[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found"
9033			dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?]
9034	root	1.387	%
9035	root	1.1	[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-]
9036			Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an
9037			excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you
9038			don't actually get anything DONE.
9039	root	1.387	%
9040	root	1.1	Advantages of Windows NT over Linux:
9041			* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault.
9042			* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot.
9043			* You can use your mouse to type an email-message.
9044	root	1.387	%
9045	root	1.1	> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial
9046			> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to
9047			> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could
9048			> get the serial number from the OS)?
9049
9050			Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
9051	root	1.387	%
9052	root	1.1	[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15]
9053			"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and
9054			they have continued that legacy to this day."
9055	root	1.387	%
9056	root	1.1	[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville]
9057			"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg
9058			files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word."
9059	root	1.387	%
9060	root	1.1	> If it is clearly documented that will not happen.
9061
9062			Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature
9063			means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear
9064			that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say
9065			exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in
9066			other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've
9067			seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are
9068			still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C
9069			Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that,
9070			got the T-shirt.
9071	root	1.387	%
9072	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9073			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9074			Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT
9075			To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
9076			Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com,
9077			davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9078			X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
9079
9080			Linus writes, to Craig:
9081
9082			> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger,
9083			> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and
9084			> thus choices than gcc.
9085
9086			No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x
9087			larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race
9088			conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is
9089			far more complex than the kernel.
9090
9091			[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers
9092			bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds]
9093
9094			[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ]
9095	root	1.387	%
9096	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9097			From: craig@jcb-sc.com
9098			To: torvalds@transmeta.com
9099
9100			>I want the _user_ to be able to give input.
9101			[...]
9102			>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias
9103			>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the
9104			>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to
9105			>let the user be in control.
9106
9107			In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than
9108			the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact
9109			that you know, what, nothing about language design, and nothing
9110			about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of
9111			compilers?
9112	root	1.387	%
9113	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9114			From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
9115
9116			Linus writes:
9117			> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know
9118			> gcc could do better?
9119
9120			Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting
9121			matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy
9122			before you had so many worshippers.
9123	root	1.387	%
9124	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
9125			From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si>
9126			Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200
9127			To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
9128			X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
9129
9130			Linus Torvalds wrote:
9131
9132			> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_
9133			> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and
9134			> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to
9135			> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys.
9136
9137			Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do
9138
9139			#pragma optimize("a", on/off)
9140
9141			around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions
9142			_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard.
9143
9144			They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha!
9145
9146			>:->
9147
9148			Brane
9149
9150
9151			P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer"
9152			who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the
9153			standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming
9154			compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless)
9155			features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it.
9156
9157
9158			P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ...
9159	root	1.387	%
9160	root	1.1	You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose two
9161	root	1.387	%
9162	root	1.1	"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with
9163			fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a
9164			high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces.
9165	root	1.387	%
9166	root	1.1	1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux
9167			2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT
9168			3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT
9169	root	1.387	%
9170	root	1.1	[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools]
9171
9172			> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two.
9173
9174			Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :)
9175	root	1.387	%
9176	root	1.1	[perl is cryptic??]
9177			Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER
9178			From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
9179			Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST)
9180
9181			We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list:
9182
9183			: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter
9184			: substitution. This patch makes the following valid:
9185			:
9186			: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }
9187			:
9188			: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer
9189			:
9190			: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#local \=}%%\=}##* }"
9191	root	1.387	%
9192	root	1.1	Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
9193	root	1.387	%
9194	root	1.1	> \|> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but
9195			> \|> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
9196			> \|> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
9197			> \|> interpreting words in any human language.
9198			>
9199			> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und
9200			> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
9201
9202			The classic example:
9203
9204			"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow.
9205			"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
9206	root	1.387	%
9207	root	1.1	[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?]
9208			>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File".
9209
9210			And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially
9211			once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of
9212			lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc.
9213
9214			What's next, a String class for Perl?
9215
9216			--tom
9217	root	1.387	%
9218	root	1.1	[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:]
9219			i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi
9220			working on something for me
9221			u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk
9222			to me nutting concerning y ok
9223			piece
9224			russ
9225	root	1.387	%
9226	root	1.1	[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:]
9227
9228			pico (text editor for beginners)
9229			vi (text editor for advanced users)
9230			emacs (text editor for advanced users)
9231			ed (text editor for beginners)
9232	root	1.387	%
9233	root	1.1	There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with
9234
9235			use Python;
9236
9237			and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file.
9238			Except maybe faster. :-)
9239
9240			Larry
9241	root	1.387	%
9242	root	1.1	> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level.
9243
9244			just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl
9245			2010.
9246
9247			(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?)
9248	root	1.387	%
9249	root	1.1	The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to
9250			read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams
9251			and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that
9252			it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English
9253			descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete
9254			lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing
9255			document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever
9256			been created.
9257	root	1.387	%
9258	root	1.1	> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac.
9259			>
9260			> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be
9261			> $3.99.
9262			>
9263			> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke.
9264			>
9265			> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled.
9266			>
9267			> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke!
9268			>
9269			> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free.
9270			>
9271			> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week?
9272			>
9273			> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's
9274			> got integrated Coke!
9275			>
9276			> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going
9277			> to drink the Coke.
9278			>
9279			> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger.
9280			>
9281			> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away.
9282			>
9283			> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally
9284			> inseparable.
9285			>
9286			> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things!
9287			>
9288			> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See?
9289			>
9290			> Joe: Why did you just do that?!
9291			>
9292			> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with
9293			> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a
9294			> continuous taste across all your foods.
9295	root	1.387	%
9296	root	1.1	Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all
9297			like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt.
9298	root	1.40	Rob Pike
9299	root	1.387	%
9300	root	1.1	From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
9301
9302			Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python.
9303			Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic.
9304			It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days
9305			for you to digest this book.
9306			Python: it's really better but nobody uses it.
9307			Python: just for the whitespace of it.
9308			Join The Trickle
9309			Python: more popular than Dylan!
9310			Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter!
9311			Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series.
9312	root	1.387	%
9313	root	1.1	Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can
9314			honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears
9315			that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being
9316			complete and utter vapourware.
9317
9318			Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL.
9319	root	1.387	%
9320	root	1.1	[From "Programming Perl"]
9321
9322			We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
9323			programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris
9324	root	1.387	%
9325	root	1.1	[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]:
9326
9327			Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is
9328			almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to
9329			see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In
9330			a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI
9331			Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's
9332			Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might
9333			not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman
9334			(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I
9335			find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in
9336			terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real
9337			problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that
9338			span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that
9339			everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting -
9340			saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP
9341			methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians
9342			would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with
9343			proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you
9344			come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in
9345			programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you
9346			understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them
9347			work.
9348			[...]
9349			You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some
9350			type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces
9351			don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search,
9352			what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my
9353			litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear
9354			search generically - then it has some potential.
9355			[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
9356			It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a
9357			profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no
9358			intellectual value whatsoever.
9359
9360			[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA]
9361			I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming
9362			out in the seventies. Who remembers them now?
9363	root	1.387	%
9364	root	1.1	[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:]
9365	root	1.388	"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..."
9366	root	1.387	%
9367	root	1.1	[/bin/false on solaris]
9368			#!/usr/bin/sh
9369			# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
9370			# All Rights Reserved
9371
9372			# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
9373			# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
9374			# actual or intended publication of such source code.
9375
9376			#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
9377			[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, 1 line.]
9378	root	1.387	%
9379	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.
9380	root	1.387	%
9381	root	1.1	When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening
9382			or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of
9383			the path with "lib/oldlocale".
9384	root	1.387	%
9385	root	1.1	[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315]
9386
9387			"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem,
9388			rather than fixing the actual problem."
9389
9390			[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where
9391			just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your
9392			machine]
9393
9394			"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu
9395			of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally
9396			responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet."
9397
9398			[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html]
9399	root	1.387	%
9400	root	1.1	[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for
9401			spamming:]
9402
9403			>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker
9404			>>
9405			>>An error was generated by your request to our servers:
9406			>>------------------------------------------------------
9407			>>
9408			>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com
9409			>>
9410			>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list.
9411
9412			[and later, misquoting my name:]
9413			>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole.
9414	root	1.387	%
9415	root	1.1	[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?]
9416			He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%.
9417	root	1.387	%
9418	root	1.1	> And what's wrong with being named Peter?
9419			If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;)
9420	root	1.387	%
9421	root	1.1	According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows
9422			95/98 are limited to an uptime of exactly 49.7 days.
9423
9424			--found by Vincent Janelle (Random)
9425	root	1.387	%
9426	root	1.1	> Leave that to RMS.
9427
9428			If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry,
9429			RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot
9430			else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that
9431			he's full of.
9432
9433			Support BSD/Linux.
9434
9435			--tom
9436	root	1.387	%
9437	root	1.1	"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike
9438	root	1.387	%
9439	root	1.1	We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
9440	root	1.387	%
9441	root	1.1	> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell
9442			> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter...
9443
9444			Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of
9445			mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar
9446			and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a
9447			few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out.
9448	root	1.387	%
9449	root	1.1	[on channel #gimp]
9450
9451			[msg(Xachbot)] insult me
9452			[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that.
9453	root	1.387	%
9454	root	1.1	[the creation]
9455			http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt
9456	root	1.387	%
9457	root	1.1	THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP
9458
9459			This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of
9460			an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said
9461			to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
9462	root	1.387	%
9463	root	1.1	Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht
9464			selbst schliesse.
9465			Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer"
9466			am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo
9467	root	1.387	%
9468	root	1.1	According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
9469			> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized."
9470
9471			No:
9472
9473			use Borg;
9474			make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized');
9475
9476			--
9477			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
9478	root	1.387	%
9479	root	1.1	"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to
9480			the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century
9481			sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating
9482			systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by
9483			its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the
9484			appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few
9485			agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the
9486			time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the
9487			agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious
9488			non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema,
9489			failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent
9490			specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge
9491			pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus
9492			concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic
9493			sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long
9494			run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to
9495			modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches.
9496			'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale
9497			logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be
9498			aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as
9499			the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap
9500			dispensers."
9501
9502			[Kenneth Albanowski]
9503	root	1.387	%
9504	root	1.1	Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel.
9505			Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung
9506			unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl.
9507			-- Kristian Koehntopp
9508	root	1.387	%
9509	root	1.1	> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a
9510			> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
9511			> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch
9512	root	1.387	%
9513	root	1.388	[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg]
9514	root	1.1
9515			Prof: "Was ist Agio?"
9516	root	1.388	Student: "Weiß ich nicht."
9517	root	1.1	Prof: "OK, durchgefallen!
9518	root	1.388	Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!"
9519	root	1.1	Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?"
9520			Student: "..."
9521			Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?"
9522			Student: "..."
9523			Prof: "...durchgefallen!"
9524	root	1.387	%
9525	root	1.1	Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes:
9526
9527			> Just morbid curiosity,
9528			>
9529			> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl?
9530
9531			Yes. Broken ones.
9532
9533			dgris
9534	root	1.387	%
9535	root	1.1	"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard."
9536			-- A Borges story in ten words.
9537	root	1.387	%
9538	root	1.1	"C combines the power of assembly language
9539			with the flexibility of assembly language."
9540	root	1.387	%
9541	root	1.1	...
9542
9543			<AOL>
9544
9545			Me too!
9546
9547			</AOL>
9548
9549			Tig
9550	root	1.387	%
9551	root	1.1	ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname>
9552	root	1.387	%
9553	root	1.1	unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
9554	root	1.387	%
9555	root	1.1	From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com>
9556
9557			I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is
9558			"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB
9559			wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while
9560			loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it
9561			to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No
9562			chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The
9563			NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions.
9564
9565			Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad.
9566
9567			I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i
9568			expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and
9569			get really really pissed.
9570
9571			Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux really start
9572			to cut into M$'s server market share.
9573	root	1.387	%
9574	root	1.1	> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists
9575			> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I
9576			> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour
9577			> period.
9578			>
9579			> Sorry for the insignificant post..
9580			> Nic
9581			>
9582
9583			Thank you for contributing to the problem.
9584
9585			-hpa
9586	root	1.387	%
9587	root	1.1	grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat)
9588	root	1.387	%
9589	root	1.1	"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
9590			make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
9591			happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
9592			administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
9593			happy."
9594			- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
9595	root	1.387	%
9596	root	1.1	From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM>
9597			Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
9598			To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
9599
9600			I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
9601			of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code.
9602			I also forwarded the offending code.
9603
9604			The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
9605			of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of
9606			service.
9607
9608			Daniel
9609	root	1.387	%
9610	root	1.1	Any UNIX-killer must also have:
9611			...
9612			* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD)
9613	root	1.387	%
9614	root	1.1	"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well."
9615			It's a phrase I use a lot. :-)
9616			[RJL]
9617	root	1.387	%
9618	root	1.1	As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's
9619			right.''
9620	root	1.387	%
9621	root	1.1	[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:]
9622
9623			Amazing--they actually listened.
9624	root	1.387	%
9625	root	1.1	That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with
9626			SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX
9627			that people know is just awful. It looks something like this:
9628
9629			# less foo
9630			sh: command not found
9631			# more foo
9632			sh: command not found
9633			# emacs foo
9634			sh: command not found
9635			# ed foo
9636			0
9637			help
9638			?
9639			quit
9640			?
9641			exit
9642			?
9643			DIE!!!!!!!!!!
9644			?
9645
9646			[Albert D. Cahalan]
9647	root	1.387	%
9648	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases?
9649			From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
9650			Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100
9651
9652			tim> Sure. Strictly speaking
9653
9654			tim> use blib ':quiet';
9655
9656			tim> would be most correct in style.
9657
9658			Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively.
9659			For the rest I'd recommend [...]
9660	root	1.387	%
9661	root	1.1	[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty]
9662			No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that
9663			effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
9664			[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal.
9665			too bad --- ]
9666	root	1.387	%
9667	root	1.1	Microsoft - Is it going to work today?
9668	root	1.387	%
9669	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues
9670
9671			> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the
9672			> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken.
9673
9674			The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll
9675			pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself."
9676	root	1.387	%
9677	root	1.1	[once on linux-kernel:]
9678			> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv
9679			> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this?
9680			he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs
9681			driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy.
9682	root	1.387	%
9683	root	1.1	> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ?
9684
9685			No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that
9686			include wrong #include files in their source.
9687	root	1.387	%
9688	root	1.1	[unix-faq]
9689
9690			Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like
9691			"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "" instead of ".foo".
9692			Consider it a rite of passage.
9693	root	1.387	%
9694	root	1.1	"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..."
9695			"Oops."
9696			-- MST3K
9697	root	1.387	%
9698	root	1.1	Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to
9699			claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with
9700			those numeric properties than with the current situation.
9701
9702			I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here).
9703			It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler
9704			I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee,
9705			look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the
9706			stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering
9707			it. ;)
9708	root	1.387	%
9709	root	1.1	>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various
9710			>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and
9711			>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result.
9712			>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own
9713			>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant?
9714
9715			What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc
9716			documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does
9717			Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com
9718			did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question?
9719
9720			--tom
9721	root	1.387	%
9722	root	1.1	> * Have you ever wondered how life began ?
9723
9724			In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs.
9725
9726			>Why does it end ?
9727
9728			Ask the X3J11 committee.
9729
9730			> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ?
9731			> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ?
9732
9733			To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY!
9734	root	1.387	%
9735	root	1.1	"Unix is Perl's IDE!"
9736			-- Tom Christiansen
9737	root	1.387	%
9738	root	1.1	[Sputnik]
9739
9740			Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-)
9741			A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of
9742			supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It
9743			wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard
9744			of Sputnik.
9745	root	1.387	%
9746	root	1.1	NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that
9747			even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance
9748			characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is
9749			the superior approach for most removable media without software control
9750			of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies).
9751	root	1.387	%
9752	root	1.1	Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity.
9753			- Hanlons razor -
9754	root	1.387	%
9755	root	1.1	Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately
9756			explained by stupidity or incompetence.
9757	root	1.387	%
9758	root	1.1	According to Chris Nandor:
9759			> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries,
9760			> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and
9761			> offered no significant advantages.
9762
9763			That one's in the quotes file. Thanks.
9764	root	1.387	%
9765	root	1.1	My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive
9766			stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did
9767			(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus,
9768			reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR
9769			quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper
9770			in front of me says so."
9771
9772			He took it back and bought a Gateway.
9773	root	1.387	%
9774	root	1.1	9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat,
9775			statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere,
9776			praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper
9777			fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui
9778			deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in
9779			quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto
9780			transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut
9781			annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more
9782			consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente,
9783			idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in
9784			quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur.
9785	root	1.387	%
9786	root	1.1	You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0
9787			and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack
9788			did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that
9789			2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set
9790			the date to Feb 29, 2000.
9791	root	1.387	%
9792	root	1.1	"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen"
9793	root	1.387	%
9794	root	1.388	HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber
9795	root	1.1	hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX-
9796			Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder
9797			schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to
9798			get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.)
9799	root	1.387	%
9800	root	1.1	From: Robert Lipe
9801			> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living.
9802			> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-)
9803			>
9804			> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard
9805			> and/or screen.
9806
9807			Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld?
9808	root	1.387	%
9809	root	1.1	Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access
9810			From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>
9811
9812			On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
9813			> use pedantic;
9814			> use strict 'code';
9815			>
9816			> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode.
9817
9818			use syntax 'python';
9819
9820			Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;)
9821
9822	root	1.387	%
9823	root	1.1	Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall,
9824			>
9825			> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this
9826			> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic
9827			> primarily because people think it will be traumatic. A panic is a
9828			> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics.
9829			>
9830			> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-)
9831	root	1.387	%
9832	root	1.1	[rfc1925]
9833			Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
9834	root	1.387	%
9835	root	1.1	[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux]
9836			> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might
9837			> be time-consuming.
9838
9839			"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying
9840	root	1.387	%
9841	root	1.1	UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran
9842			77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally,
9843			however, they do not handle C++...
9844			[from "learning the vi editor"]
9845	root	1.387	%
9846	root	1.1	> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few
9847			> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug.
9848
9849			Indeed, as Alan Cox said:
9850
9851			So get a non-buggy ping(8) client.
9852
9853			and as Ecclesiastes said:
9854
9855			Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been
9856			already of old time, which was before us.
9857			There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
9858			remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
9859
9860			Regards,
9861			Tigran.
9862	root	1.387	%
9863	root	1.1	SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem
9864	root	1.387	%
9865	root	1.1	[slightly broken, though...]
9866			/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */
9867			hw [0] "Hello World.*n";
9868			main(){
9869			extrn hw;
9870			putchar(0[hw]);
9871			hw=+1;
9872			putchar(0[hw]);
9873			}
9874	root	1.387	%
9875	root	1.1	> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :)
9876
9877			The egg. Always. By definition.
9878	root	1.387	%
9879	root	1.1	> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;()
9880			>
9881			> Better check your scsi cables.
9882	root	1.387	%
9883	root	1.1	Arroganz durch Wissen
9884			[Dirk Jagdmann]
9885	root	1.387	%
9886	root	1.1	[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?]
9887			> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten
9888			> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es
9889			> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8))
9890
9891	root	1.388	was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit
9892	root	1.1	sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_-
9893			Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat!
9894
9895	root	1.388	Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so
9896	root	1.1	bezwecken will... ^_-
9897	root	1.387	%
9898	root	1.1	>James :\
9899			>
9900			>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread.
9901
9902			I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post.
9903	root	1.387	%
9904	root	1.1	From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu>
9905			Subject: night of the undead ip stack
9906			Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST)
9907	root	1.387	%
9908	root	1.1	> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux
9909			> is just asking for a black eye.
9910
9911			But Unicode for NT is such fun!
9912
9913			For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL
9914			if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII
9915			translation tables are marked as pageable.
9916
9917			Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers
9918			that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this
9919			area.
9920	root	1.387	%
9921	root	1.1	Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people.
9922			[Lukas Grunwald]
9923	root	1.387	%
9924	root	1.1	http://dd.sh/perlfs/:
9925
9926			THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM.
9927			EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP
9928			YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND
9929			(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR
9930			FIRST-BORN CHILD.
9931	root	1.387	%
9932	root	1.1	[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/]
9933			Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all.
9934
9935			kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode
9936	root	1.387	%
9937	root	1.1	[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic]
9938			On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense.
9939			For example, my SGI workstation prints:
9940
9941			0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000
9942
9943			However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives:
9944
9945			0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000
9946
9947			due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether
9948			the numbers are in the FPU or not.
9949	root	1.387	%
9950	root	1.388	[Grüner Tip/Arte]
9951	root	1.1	Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr
9952	root	1.388	Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig....
9953	root	1.387	%
9954	root	1.1	Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem
9955			longer...
9956	root	1.387	%
9957	root	1.1	[M$ about unix development tools like GCC]
9958			By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to
9959			VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive.
9960	root	1.387	%
9961	root	1.1	> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according
9962			> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the
9963			> > world :) I just love it...
9964			>
9965			> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there...
9966			>
9967			It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really
9968			should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very
9969			practical...
9970			for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one
9971			person wants to see movie... what do yo do?
9972			Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first
9973			one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and
9974			everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :))
9975
9976			Jan Hubicka
9977	root	1.387	%
9978	root	1.1	> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {};
9979			[...]
9980			> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++.
9981
9982			No, it is not. What you meant is
9983
9984			template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {};
9985	root	1.387	%
9986	root	1.1	Jan Dubois writes:
9987			> A) perl-5.00553
9988			> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe
9989			> cc = cl.exe
9990			A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real!
9991
9992			[...]
9993
9994			Ilya
9995	root	1.387	%
9996	root	1.1	>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options.
9997
9998			Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch.
9999
10000			p.
10001	root	1.387	%
10002	root	1.1	[tomc]
10003			Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the
10004			logical && and \|\| operators. Here they are:
10005
10006			+------------------------------------------+
10007			\| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. \|
10008			+------------------------------------------+
10009
10010			This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things
10011			that Perl does not do. Just for example, take:
10012
10013			* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something
10014			like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things.
10015			* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to
10016			infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an
10017			interesting way.
10018			* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure,
10019			allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things.
10020			* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do
10021			interesting things.
10022			* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that
10023			language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting
10024			things.
10025	root	1.387	%
10026	root	1.1	Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it.
10027			--Dennis Ritchie
10028	root	1.387	%
10029	root	1.1	perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines.
10030	root	1.387	%
10031	root	1.1	[not quite duff's device, but...]
10032
10033			switch (x)
10034			default:
10035			if (prime(x))
10036			case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7:
10037			process_prime(x);
10038			else
10039			case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10:
10040			process_composite(x);
10041	root	1.387	%
10042	root	1.1	Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing
10043			after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory,
10044			in megabytes, required for execution?
10045
10046			Craig Milo Rogers
10047	root	1.387	%
10048	root	1.1	Mark Mielke writes:
10049			> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it
10050			> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that.
10051
10052			This is just another reference point about the state of education in
10053			US (apparently in Canada too?).
10054
10055			Ilya
10056	root	1.387	%
10057	root	1.1	[from p5p]
10058			> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy.
10059
10060			Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an
10061			immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will
10062			note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.)
10063
10064			Nat
10065	root	1.387	%
10066	root	1.1	Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too
10067			much steroids for a while. =)
10068
10069			--Albert Dvornik
10070			<bert@genscan.com>
10071	root	1.387	%
10072	root	1.1	Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow
10073			From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
10074			Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500
10075
10076			>You do not understand? Perl is slow...
10077
10078			Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python
10079			or tcl crowd instead of here.
10080
10081			--tom
10082	root	1.387	%
10083	root	1.1	>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved?
10084
10085			Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place.
10086
10087			Linus
10088	root	1.387	%
10089	root	1.1	On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the
10090			devil added HTML mail...
10091	root	1.387	%
10092	root	1.1	linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
10093			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */
10094			linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
10095	root	1.387	%
10096	root	1.1	On 1998-10-11T02:37:57,
10097			Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
10098
10099			> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like
10100			> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS
10101			> techniques to start coming this way and very soon.
10102
10103			Arm the gnus!
10104	root	1.387	%
10105	root	1.1	[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner]
10106
10107			Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with
10108			you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve
10109			gcc, so go away.
10110	root	1.387	%
10111	root	1.1	I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it
10112			wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called:
10113
10114			"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
10115
10116			But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile
10117			Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2).
10118	root	1.387	%
10119	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10120			> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with
10121			> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what
10122			> journalists need to make them pay attention.
10123
10124			Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula',
10125			was released today" madness.
10126	root	1.387	%
10127	root	1.1	[on perl version numbering]
10128			> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention,
10129			> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The
10130			> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same
10131			> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course,
10132			> elaine> we could call it Perl99.
10133			>
10134			> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not
10135			> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other
10136			> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that
10137			> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good
10138			> marketing name, anyway.
10139
10140			Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm.
10141			"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to
10142			put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot.
10143
10144			Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit mindless
10145			violence..." :-)
10146	root	1.387	%
10147	root	1.1	Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes
10148			his mind in which case he still has the last say.
10149	root	1.387	%
10150	root	1.1	> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage
10151			> >poor drivers
10152			>
10153			> No it doesn't.
10154
10155			Indeed. Its down to
10156
10157			Profit = (units * margin) - overhead
10158
10159			and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management.
10160			The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then
10161			we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source
10162			or binaries.
10163	root	1.387	%
10164	root	1.1	dig txt leap.yp.to
10165	root	1.387	%
10166	root	1.1	"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..."
10167	root	1.387	%
10168	root	1.1	[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD]
10169
10170			\|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*],
10171			\|> than a not optimal fix?!?!?
10172			\|>
10173			\|> s/optimal/stupid/
10174
10175			What's stupid is little endian. <g>
10176
10177			Andreas.
10178	root	1.387	%
10179	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10180			...
10181			A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''.
10182
10183			Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in
10184			Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they
10185			skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues
10186			arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical
10187			UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm
10188			not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers.
10189	root	1.387	%
10190	root	1.1	[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10191
10192			Paul Eggert writes:
10193			> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI''
10194
10195			Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd
10196			try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble.
10197	root	1.387	%
10198	root	1.1	For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only
10199			however.
10200
10201			"We don't have the tools"
10202			"We can't support a non intel build"
10203			"We don't have that sort of machine"
10204			"Its not worth the time cost"
10205			"Whats an Alpha ?"
10206	root	1.387	%
10207	root	1.1	On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
10208
10209			> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400
10210			> from mini [10.0.0.3]
10211			>
10212			> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
10213			> <mailproc@fred>
10214			>
10215			> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
10216			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10217			> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5'
10218			> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
10219			> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16
10220	root	1.387	%
10221	root	1.1	> Here is the difficulty with this discussion:
10222			> No documented problem
10223			> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem"
10224			> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system
10225			>
10226			> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers!
10227	root	1.387	%
10228	root	1.1	> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might
10229			> satisfy neither of us (:-).
10230	root	1.387	%
10231	root	1.1	By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to
10232			change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask"
10233
10234			dave
10235	root	1.387	%
10236	root	1.1	On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10237			DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you?
10238
10239			BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable.
10240	root	1.387	%
10241	root	1.1	[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
10242
10243			Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000
10244			From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
10245
10246			Paul Eggert writes:
10247			> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise.
10248
10249			If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March?
10250			1 month before 29 March?
10251
10252			The same as 1 month before 31 March.
10253
10254			1 month before 28 March?
10255
10256			28 February.
10257
10258			And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month
10259			_before_ 27 February?
10260
10261			28 March, 27 March, and 27 January.
10262	root	1.387	%
10263	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10264
10265			>Nils Goesche wrote:
10266			>> So make a security check first:
10267			>>
10268			>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK)
10269			>> launch_full_counterstrike();
10270			>
10271			>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to
10272			>do the job. Here's the revised version:
10273			>
10274			>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous
10275			> = instead of == error*/
10276			> launch_full_counterstrike();
10277			>
10278			>Now isn't that much more reliable?
10279			>
10280			>--
10281			>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com
10282
10283			The following variant is less reliable but much safer:
10284
10285			if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous
10286			launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */
10287	root	1.387	%
10288	root	1.1	It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
10289			of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
10290
10291			He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
10292			for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
10293			to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
10294			happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
10295			essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
10296			this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
10297			check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
10298			Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
10299
10300			The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
10301			were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
10302			of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
10303			available for that hardware from any source.
10304			What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :)
10305			Whats next? A Smell modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet
10306			sniffing!
10307	root	1.387	%
10308	root	1.1	"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a
10309			technical support line that isn't"
10310	root	1.387	%
10311	root	1.1	[from linux-kernel]
10312			`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.''
10313	root	1.387	%
10314	root	1.1	[...]
10315			And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
10316			suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
10317
10318			"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
10319			4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
10320			"We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
10321			"Nothing else"
10322			"Sorry"
10323			[Click]
10324
10325			Alan
10326	root	1.387	%
10327	root	1.388	Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht,
10328			während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden.
10329	root	1.387	%
10330	root	1.1	> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free
10331			> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives
10332			> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS
10333			> users excepted, of course!).
10334
10335			Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their
10336			systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as
10337			their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with
10338			concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard
10339			construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware
10340			is installed"
10341
10342			[Toon Moene in private discussion]
10343	root	1.387	%
10344	root	1.1	Newsgroups: alt.config
10345
10346			L. Harris wrote:
10347			>
10348			> Testing
10349
10350			you failed.
10351	root	1.387	%
10352	root	1.1	Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer]
10353			<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ
10354	root	1.387	%
10355	root	1.1	Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least
10356			20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a
10357			"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month"
10358			group. :) -- Randal Schwartz
10359	root	1.387	%
10360	root	1.1	> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the
10361			> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in
10362			> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
10363
10364			What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
10365	root	1.387	%
10366	root	1.1	We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it
10367			seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of
10368			choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some
10369			where else...
10370	root	1.387	%
10371	root	1.1	Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote:
10372			[...]
10373			: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions
10374			: about a certain topic.
10375	root	1.387	%
10376	root	1.1	Mark Robinson wrote:
10377			>
10378			> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody
10379			> know where I can get game sources(legally)?
10380
10381			Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to
10382			write. I'm not finished yet, though.
10383
10384			void main (void)
10385			{
10386			printf ("You are in a dark room.\n");
10387			printf ("\n");
10388			printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n");
10389			printf ("You have died.\n");
10390			printf ("\n");
10391			printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!");
10392			}
10393
10394			(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.)
10395
10396			--
10397			John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com
10398	root	1.387	%
10399	root	1.1	[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest
10400			mistake I ever made]
10401
10402			From: "Tom Miller"
10403			Subject: Can
10404			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10405
10406			Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please
10407			send to kymmiller@bigpond.com
10408			my name is Tom Miller
10409
10410			From: "Tom Miller"
10411			Subject: Wait
10412			X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
10413
10414			Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the
10415			passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you
10416	root	1.387	%
10417	root	1.1	From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
10418
10419			[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something
10420			better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm
10421			so why bother? [...]
10422	root	1.387	%
10423	root	1.388	Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de>
10424	root	1.1
10425			Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo
10426
10427			Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar
10428			jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere
10429			Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte
10430			Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des
10431			Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es
10432			besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln
10433			sich dann.
10434	root	1.387	%
10435	root	1.1	CRASH(8)
10436			no fs
10437			A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table.
10438			Definitely hardware or software error.
10439
10440			Unix Version 7 Manual
10441	root	1.387	%
10442	root	1.1	On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote:
10443			>
10444			> Maybe Pi looks like this:
10445			>
10446			> =for C
10447			> i++; /* add 1 to i */
10448			> =end
10449			> =for C++
10450			> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably
10451			> =end
10452			> =for Java
10453			> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ???
10454			> =end
10455			>
10456			> :-)
10457	root	1.387	%
10458	root	1.1	> > USENET is not the non-clickable part of WWW!
10459	root	1.387	%
10460	root	1.1	[on linux 2.1.111]
10461
10462			The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on
10463			the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the
10464			cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to
10465			turn it on.
10466	root	1.387	%
10467	root	1.1	[...]
10468			its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country
10469			between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany
10470			(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands...
10471			[...]
10472	root	1.387	%
10473	root	1.1	I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1).
10474
10475			Chad C Giffin
10476	root	1.387	%
10477	root	1.1	[usenet, an anology]
10478			Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?"
10479			worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha!
10480			Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to
10481			their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under
10482			the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree."
10483
10484			"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head
10485			through the door.
10486			"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary.
10487			"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper.
10488			"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If
10489			you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff."
10490			Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so
10491			he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their
10492			cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees,
10493			usually.)
10494
10495			"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your
10496			muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or
10497			your tire pressure..."
10498			Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could
10499			even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack."
10500			"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying
10501			oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry
10502			"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen.
10503			Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the
10504			gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in
10505			three days for a cost of $175.23.
10506	root	1.387	%
10507	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10508
10509			Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:)
10510	root	1.387	%
10511	root	1.1	> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein.
10512
10513			Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen...
10514			:-(
10515	root	1.387	%
10516	root	1.1	>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis
10517			>dies alles geschieht.
10518			>Und es verging nicht.
10519
10520			So what?
10521
10522			Ich dachte eher an:
10523
10524			" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der
10525			Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als
10526			Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir
10527			jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende
10528			unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus
10529			hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich
10530			nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh,
10531			ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose
10532			die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und
10533			Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die
10534			roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen
10535			wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ".
10536
10537			Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f
10538
10539			Antje
10540	root	1.387	%
10541	root	1.1	[....]
10542
10543			Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise
10544			grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1.
10545			zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft
10546			und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein
10547			Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat.
10548			Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert!
10549
10550			Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren,
10551
10552			Antje
10553	root	1.387	%
10554	root	1.1	It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh,
10555			lalala, I love you baby..."
10556			--
10557			Pavel.Janik@inet.cz
10558	root	1.387	%
10559	root	1.1	On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
10560			>
10561			> Kubys
10562
10563			Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that.
10564
10565			Linus
10566	root	1.387	%
10567	root	1.1	> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O".
10568
10569			.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language
10570			instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably
10571			don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O").
10572	root	1.387	%
10573	root	1.1	> It is big and never uses.
10574
10575			That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure
10576			out what it means.
10577			--
10578			Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
10579	root	1.387	%
10580	root	1.1	[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The
10581			company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...]
10582	root	1.387	%
10583	root	1.1	From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
10584			Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400
10585
10586			Terry L Ridder wrote:
10587
10588			> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what
10589			> is being discussed.
10590
10591			Well my licence is bigger then your licence.
10592	root	1.387	%
10593	root	1.1	[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:]
10594
10595			Drop data of type text/plain was:
10596
10597			Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation
10598
10599			[and the button reads]
10600
10601			Continue with life in spite of this oppression
10602	root	1.387	%
10603	root	1.1	Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes:
10604
10605			While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain
10606
10607			A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a
10608			certain amount of redundancy.
10609	root	1.387	%
10610	root	1.1	Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit
10611			the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem.
10612
10613			...
10614
10615			Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
10616	root	1.387	%
10617	root	1.1	>Hello,
10618			>
10619			>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full
10620			>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system?
10621			>
10622
10623			Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl
10624			version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the
10625			nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations
10626			compared with NT due to its own shortcomings .
10627	root	1.387	%
10628	root	1.1	An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact
10629			on the country as a whole.
10630			Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer,
10631			explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be
10632			prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws.
10633	root	1.387	%
10634	root	1.1	With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am
10635			limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
10636	root	1.387	%
10637	root	1.1	There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep
10638	root	1.387	%
10639	root	1.1	In comp.lang.perl.misc,
10640			Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes:
10641			:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id?
10642
10643			$id = `cat /dev/kmem`;
10644
10645			--tom
10646			--
10647			Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
10648			--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
10649	root	1.387	%
10650	root	1.1	Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc
10651			Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0
10652	root	1.387	%
10653	root	1.1	On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
10654
10655			> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references
10656			> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped)
10657			> NO CARRIER
10658			> !@&#@#%T^@&(GUSD(@!&(@#R(FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R
10659	root	1.387	%
10660	root	1.1	> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but
10661			> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was
10662			> better.
10663
10664			There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put
10665			my finger on it. Hmmm.
10666	root	1.387	%
10667	root	1.1	comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be
10668			bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for.
10669	root	1.387	%
10670	root	1.1	\|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system,
10671			\|>
10672			\|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was
10673			\|> : a free-standing implimentation.
10674			\|>
10675			\|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you
10676			\|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment?
10677
10678			The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will
10679			point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was
10680			horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It
10681			remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to
10682			build Bison, and then cook it.
10683
10684			Viva la buffalo burgers.
10685	root	1.387	%
10686	root	1.1	A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire
10687			home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's
10688			The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The
10689			Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation
10690			can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/.
10691	root	1.387	%
10692	root	1.1	The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.
10693			-- lbxproxy(1)
10694	root	1.387	%
10695	root	1.1	Re: Where to learn Windows programming...
10696
10697			\|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks.
10698
10699			Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb
10700			on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference".
10701	root	1.387	%
10702	root	1.1	Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else?
10703
10704			that's some ugly piece of code buddy...
10705	root	1.387	%
10706	root	1.1	In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes:
10707			\|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file
10708			\|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program
10709			\|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection
10710			\|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault.
10711
10712			\|> What does this mean.
10713
10714			It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately
10715			install [free\|net\|open]BSD[OS] or Linux.
10716	root	1.387	%
10717	root	1.1	Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
10718
10719			On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote:
10720			> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question..
10721
10722			Off-topic, too! Imagine that.
10723	root	1.387	%
10724	root	1.1	"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the
10725			planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do
10726			streams)."
10727			-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux"
10728	root	1.387	%
10729	root	1.1	"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise."
10730			- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com>
10731	root	1.387	%
10732	root	1.1	Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com>
10733
10734			>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden?
10735
10736			Klaro.
10737
10738			>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen
10739			>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch
10740			>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie
10741			>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt?
10742
10743	root	1.388	Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die
10744	root	1.1	Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld.
10745
10746			>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit
10747			>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu
10748			>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich
10749			>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die
10750			>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift
10751			>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift
10752			>einfach wegdiskutieren...)
10753
10754			Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder
10755			am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies
10756			passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher
10757	root	1.388	der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt
10758			richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im
10759			Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer
10760			ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die
10761	root	1.1	Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen.
10762
10763			Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher
10764	root	1.388	die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch
10765			die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat
10766			die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens
10767			der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der
10768			Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum
10769			die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in
10770			den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner
10771	root	1.1	2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos.
10772			Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache.
10773
10774			cu in hell 2002
10775	root	1.387	%
10776	root	1.1	"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95"
10777	root	1.387	%
10778	root	1.1	>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'.
10779
10780			Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You
10781			get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints
10782			the man page for crypt(1).
10783
10784			Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the
10785			section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find
10786			that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try
10787
10788			man -s3 crypt
10789
10790			Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No
10791			entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual."
10792
10793			If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and
10794			find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps
10795			he can figure out to use the command
10796
10797			man -s3 Intro.3
10798
10799			to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that
10800			crypt is in section 3C so he should use
10801
10802			man -s3c crypt
10803
10804			Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this
10805			stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have
10806			any trouble.
10807			--
10808			Michael M Rubenstein
10809	root	1.387	%
10810	root	1.1	Take a moment to consider these lines:
10811
10812			%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
10813
10814			sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
10815
10816			:-) I love Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
10817
10818			Regards,
10819			Tim Bunce.
10820
10821			p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
10822			p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
10823			p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?
10824	root	1.387	%
10825	root	1.1	From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10826
10827			...
10828
10829			> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad
10830			> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and
10831			> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second:
10832
10833			I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until
10834			its unusable, believe me I do.
10835	root	1.387	%
10836	root	1.1	Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer
10837
10838			Semour Cray
10839	root	1.387	%
10840	root	1.1	Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany:
10841
10842			Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons!
10843	root	1.387	%
10844	root	1.1	From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM>
10845			Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit
10846
10847			aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip
10848			it only supports parts of it
10849	root	1.387	%
10850	root	1.1	egcs/gcc/gcse.c:
10851			/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */
10852	root	1.387	%
10853	root	1.1	[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax
10854			as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been
10855			let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages",
10856			whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware
10857			of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in
10858			the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious
10859			without the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information.
10860
10861			(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches,
10862			which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label
10863			being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A
10864			smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a
10865			branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler
10866			and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's
10867			specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this
10868			botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise
10869			me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems
10870			with existing HP as code.) [...]
10871
10872			tq vm, (burley)
10873	root	1.387	%
10874	root	1.1	libc/posix/regex.h:
10875			/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type
10876			wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers
10877			ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two
10878			types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */
10879			typedef long int s_reg_t;
10880			typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t;
10881	root	1.387	%
10882	root	1.1	libc/db2/db.h:
10883			/*
10884			* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_
10885			* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn
10886			* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header
10887			* files won't compile.
10888			*/
10889	root	1.387	%
10890	root	1.1	> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be
10891			> great.
10892
10893			I answered only the places I can comment on.
10894
10895			> BASSAS DA INDIA
10896
10897			This rock is below water half of the time!
10898			If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST
10899			on a regular basis! ;-)
10900	root	1.387	%
10901	root	1.1	# ./test-plugin.pl
10902			Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40.
10903			wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?)
10904	root	1.387	%
10905	root	1.1	>
10906			> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the
10907			> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development
10908			> tools from the environment and precanning software.
10909
10910			No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy.
10911	root	1.387	%
10912	root	1.1	Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes:
10913
10914			>Hello!
10915
10916			>I have to write something about, what Perl is.
10917			>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you
10918			>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful!
10919
10920
10921			Perl.
10922
10923			regards
10924			jobst
10925	root	1.387	%
10926	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102
10927			From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
10928			Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST)
10929
10930			> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' laff, they have
10931			> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've
10932
10933			They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel
10934			are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard
10935			makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears
10936			nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do
10937			compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to
10938			the absolute pits.
10939	root	1.387	%
10940	root	1.1	Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike
10941	root	1.387	%
10942	root	1.1	> What about: . scriptname
10943			> ------------------^ this is a dot!
10944
10945			Funny, it looks like a "p" to me.
10946	root	1.387	%
10947	root	1.1	A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without
10948			ketchup and mustard
10949	root	1.387	%
10950	root	1.1	Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS
10951
10952			vimal gajjar wrote:
10953			>
10954			> Hi there,
10955			> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl
10956			> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and
10957			> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute
10958			> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume
10959			> 5% of cpu
10960			> 2 Mb of RAM
10961			> for the period of 10 Seconds.
10962			>
10963			> can one of the gurus take this challange?
10964
10965			Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the
10966			brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and
10967			has caused the death of 2 million brain cells.
10968	root	1.387	%
10969	root	1.1	> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can
10970			> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/.
10971			>
10972			> >s/usually/never/
10973			>
10974			> s/sometimes/never/
10975
10976			Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl.
10977	root	1.387	%
10978	root	1.1	:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there
10979			:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for
10980			:Perl, IMO.
10981
10982			Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files.
10983
10984			TC
10985	root	1.387	%
10986	root	1.1	'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.'
10987	root	1.387	%
10988	root	1.1	shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre
10989
10990			Hi guys!
10991
10992			How check socket, alive it or die ?
10993	root	1.387	%
10994	root	1.1	--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <--
10995
10996			Miscellaneous flame-wars:
10997			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10998			12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
10999			13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel.
11000			14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting.
11001			15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting.
11002	root	1.387	%
11003	root	1.1	Subject: what a week!
11004			From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
11005			Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
11006
11007			unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle
11008			and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really do
11009			need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're
11010			running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution:
11011
11012			I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL
11013			THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN
11014			COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE
11015			ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7
11016
11017			I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!!
11018
11019			GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! !
11020
11021			WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS
11022			WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY
11023			BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!
11024
11025			I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE
11026			EVIL. AND A PENTIUM IS A RISC PROCESSOR!!!
11027
11028			WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE
11029			DRIVERS!!!!!@@#!
11030
11031			Did I miss any? ;-)
11032
11033			Please don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke.
11034			Laugh. Please.
11035
11036			And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we?
11037			--Scott
11038	root	1.387	%
11039	root	1.1	> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size...
11040
11041			And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of
11042			installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or
11043			remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was
11044			successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o)
11045	root	1.387	%
11046	root	1.1	Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote:
11047			: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
11048
11049			One of those 'M's stands for Mail.
11050
11051			This is not mail.
11052
11053			This is Usenet.
11054
11055			Please post only plain text like everyone else does.
11056	root	1.387	%
11057	root	1.1	------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
11058			--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
11059			--- ide1: reset: success
11060			-----------> I like Linux !
11061	root	1.387	%
11062	root	1.1	> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What
11063			> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots.
11064
11065			Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always
11066			do.
11067	root	1.387	%
11068	root	1.1	++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate:
11069			++ PLONK.
11070	root	1.387	%
11071	root	1.1	++ > SSI is not HTML.
11072			Re: Subraumfunk
11073
11074			Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich,
11075			wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will.
11076
11077			Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es
11078			mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen
11079			InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif,
11080			eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus
11081			schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte.
11082	root	1.387	%
11083	root	1.1	> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine
11084			> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen.
11085			>
11086			> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten.
11087
11088			Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen.
11089	root	1.387	%
11090	root	1.1	++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML.
11091			Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives.
11092	root	1.387	%
11093	root	1.1	Namsuk Kim wrote:
11094			> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format?
11095
11096			I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is
11097			- is the data in EBCDIC now?
11098
11099			Bill Jones
11100	root	1.387	%
11101	root	1.1	GNU/getopt.c:
11102
11103			#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__)
11104			/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */
11105			#include <windows.h>
11106			#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId()
11107			#endif
11108	root	1.387	%
11109	root	1.1	Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs
11110
11111			Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That
11112			is, invoking the URL
11113
11114			http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn
11115
11116			causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty.
11117	root	1.387	%
11118	root	1.1	"You need to use CGI."
11119			"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!"
11120			"No, no, use CGI. The directive 'use'."
11121			"OK, so what directive do I use?"
11122			"No, no, you use use. Use CGI."
11123			"I am using CGI!"
11124
11125			Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net
11126	root	1.387	%
11127	root	1.1	> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal
11128			> > kennenlernen koennen?
11129			>
11130	root	1.388	> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne
11131	root	1.1	> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker.
11132
11133			Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie.
11134	root	1.387	%
11135	root	1.1	"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or
11136			professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991
11137	root	1.387	%
11138	root	1.1	If it's a floppy, it might be a copy.
11139			If it's a disk, you're also at risk.
11140			If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate.
11141			To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation.
11142	root	1.387	%
11143	root	1.1	From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk>
11144
11145			pcg@goof.com said:
11146			> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_
11147
11148			Hehe - I know the feeling.
11149
11150			"It's broken."
11151			"What's wrong with it?."
11152			"I don't know - it just doesn't work."
11153			"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?"
11154			"It just doesn't work."
11155			"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?"
11156			"It gives an error message."
11157			"Would you care to tell me what it says?"
11158			"It says.... something about there being an error."
11159			"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word."
11160			"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'"
11161			"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again,
11162			letter for letter this time."
11163	root	1.387	%
11164	root	1.1	From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
11165
11166			After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool
11167			had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of
11168			2.6, the mode was 04555.
11169
11170			Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you
11171			might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the
11172			perms.
11173
11174			(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.)
11175	root	1.387	%
11176	root	1.1	From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi)
11177			Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself)
11178
11179			Americans ignorant of the rest of the world?
11180
11181			I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift
11182			for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about
11183			how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay.
11184
11185			The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We
11186			ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0
11187	root	1.387	%
11188	root	1.388	>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken
11189			>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht
11190	root	1.1	>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen.
11191
11192			Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis
11193			gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen
11194			und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich
11195			ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt,
11196			also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab,
11197			bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist
11198			also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen
11199			wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt
11200			haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist
11201			logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten
11202			sicher nicht erkannt werden.
11203
11204			Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen.
11205
11206			normarz@aol.com
11207	root	1.387	%
11208	root	1.1	>Oder anders gesagt:
11209	root	1.388	>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische
11210	root	1.1	>Legion
11211			>schlagen?
11212
11213			Klar. Frage mal Cortez.
11214
11215			Bye
11216			Andreas
11217	root	1.387	%
11218	root	1.1	>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to
11219
11220			It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S.
11221			justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A.
11222
11223			I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software
11224			companies.
11225
11226			Kind regards
11227			Henning
11228	root	1.387	%
11229	root	1.1	From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
11230			Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700
11231			Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits
11232
11233			At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly
11234			into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine
11235			for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's.
11236
11237			There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
11238			tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
11239			be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
11240			told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
11241			standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
11242			make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
11243			that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
11244			hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
11245			issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
11246			computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
11247	root	1.387	%
11248	root	1.1	Where do you want to go today?
11249			We might support that sometime next year.
11250			-=- Microsoft
11251			(But I doubt it.)
11252			-=- Me
11253			-=- James Mastros
11254	root	1.387	%
11255	root	1.1	Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote:
11256			> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the
11257			> following methods, but the output was split into two
11258			>lines.
11259
11260			If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't
11261			put newlines in the middle of your string.
11262	root	1.387	%
11263	root	1.1	http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post
11264	root	1.387	%
11265	root	1.1	Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And
11266			in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God
11267			probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like
11268			Einstein. -- Larry Wall
11269	root	1.387	%
11270	root	1.1	From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org>
11271
11272			My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is
11273			mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming.
11274			Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally)
11275			correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy
11276			for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at
11277			least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and
11278			absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and
11279			it's not all his fault.
11280
11281			The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to
11282			pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of
11283			course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's
11284			understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in
11285			content.
11286
11287			Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by
11288			spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for
11289			others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to
11290			learn (or pay for it;)
11291
11292			IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same
11293			people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts
11294			to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see,
11295			just for fun or to get the op.
11296
11297			Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass
11298			your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS
11299			mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending
11300			mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX.
11301
11302			Internet, your ilimited junk yard.
11303
11304			Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of
11305			course, Linux and Linux people.
11306	root	1.387	%
11307	root	1.1	... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS,
11308			then he rewrote it as WNT.
11309
11310			Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely.
11311			--
11312			Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com
11313	root	1.387	%
11314	root	1.1	>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match?
11315
11316			I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a
11317			rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to
11318			where =~ is documented. (It's !~)
11319
11320			I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be
11321			preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral
11322			tradition.
11323	root	1.387	%
11324	root	1.1	"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world,
11325			I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself"
11326	root	1.387	%
11327	root	1.1	The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy
11328			evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare.
11329	root	1.387	%
11330	root	1.1	"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the
11331			U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program
11332			called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System."
11333			Or GIRLS for short.
11334	root	1.387	%
11335	root	1.1	Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus.
11336	root	1.387	%
11337	root	1.1	I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should
11338			post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my
11339			mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard
11340			drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get
11341			5_004_03 to build!"
11342
11343			This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I
11344			have no patience."
11345
11346			xoxo,
11347			Andy
11348	root	1.387	%
11349	root	1.1	> I have Perl5 running on my pc.
11350			> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig.
11351			We all have our cross to bear.
11352	root	1.387	%
11353	root	1.1	(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP)
11354
11355			From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus)
11356			Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT
11357			Subject: Re: system() question
11358
11359			There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and
11360			over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot
11361			are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My
11362			code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the
11363			code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging
11364			service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so
11365			badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer
11366			written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who
11367			are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does
11368			happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native
11369			languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than
11370			English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in
11371			Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How
11372			humiliating for me!)
11373
11374			Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are
11375			not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets
11376			flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more
11377			questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid.
11378			They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid.
11379			I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered.
11380			I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions
11381			go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody
11382			really knows the answer.
11383
11384			The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has
11385			some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that
11386			they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So
11387			instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc.
11388
11389			Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the
11390			questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE
11391			qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions
11392			for that.
11393
11394			Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a
11395			list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And
11396			it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he
11397			not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's
11398			going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the
11399			problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list
11400			hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire.
11401
11402			Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me:
11403
11404			1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to
11405			program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me
11406			something for free.''
11407
11408			(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.)
11409
11410			2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but...
11411			...here's my code; what's wrong?''
11412
11413			(Good question.)
11414
11415			3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs,
11416			but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup
11417			once I have run it.''
11418			(Good question.)
11419
11420			4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...''
11421
11422			(Good question.)
11423
11424			See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good
11425			question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a
11426			very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's
11427			ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know
11428			about en'; I can refer him to the manual.
11429
11430			Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email
11431			addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a
11432			big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all
11433			the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in
11434			comp.lang.perl?
11435			Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket
11436			to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From'
11437			lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I
11438			could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little
11439			external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing
11440			in comp.lang.perl?
11441
11442			Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send
11443			you my rate card.
11444
11445			Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where
11446			the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on
11447			here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an
11448			introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some
11449			language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and
11450			Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the
11451			examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this'
11452			instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire
11453			a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right
11454			to step 3. Want my rate card?''
11455
11456			The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who
11457			have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I
11458			could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago.
11459			Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link.
11460			My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have
11461			been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the
11462			West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that
11463			all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links?
11464			He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth
11465			shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any
11466			good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother
11467			asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed
11468			that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything.
11469			What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and
11470			no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut
11471			off his finger or something. I dunno.
11472
11473			Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked
11474			today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of
11475			those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be
11476			in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe
11477			someone will. Maybe I will.
11478
11479			If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking
11480			how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe
11481			I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to
11482			go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get
11483			jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told
11484			these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that
11485			that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much
11486			of my life dealing with incompetent programmers.
11487
11488			Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent
11489			thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form
11490			`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this,
11491			except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the
11492			integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on
11493			these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person
11494			really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen
11495			easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do
11496			with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are
11497			always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia
11498			development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well,
11499			gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns
11500			out that they want to do it because they want to impress the
11501			manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs.
11502
11503			The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish
11504			X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which,
11505			again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a
11506			filehandle and Y is the `Close' function.
11507
11508			The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this:
11509
11510			`I want to accomplish X.
11511
11512			I thought that the following code fragment would do it:
11513
11514			...
11515
11516			But instead it does Y.
11517
11518			Why is that?''
11519
11520			This one is also pretty good:
11521
11522			`I want to accomplish X.
11523			I thought I might be able to use facility Y.
11524
11525			But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right,
11526			because of Z.
11527
11528			What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?''
11529
11530			When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer.
11531			There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy.
11532
11533
11534			There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered.
11535			Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions.
11536
11537			--
11538			Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
11539			The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
11540	root	1.387	%
11541	root	1.1	>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python?
11542			>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows.
11543
11544			If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has
11545			support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning
11546			TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that.
11547
11548			Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-)
11549
11550			bye, Georg
11551	root	1.387	%
11552	root	1.1	I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model
11553			(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to
11554			convince me.
11555
11556			[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ]
11557
11558			Linus
11559	root	1.387	%
11560	root	1.1	++ how can i strip new lines out at var.
11561			++
11562
11563			Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the
11564			complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick:
11565
11566	root	1.85	$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var;
11567	root	1.1
11568			If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem
11569			understanding the above line.
11570
11571			Abigail
11572	root	1.387	%
11573	root	1.1	I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since
11574			1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine.
11575	root	1.387	%
11576	root	1.1	++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a
11577			++ button?
11578			Yes.
11579
11580			++ 100 pictures or so?
11581			Yes.
11582
11583			++ Can I do it in Perl?
11584			Yes.
11585
11586			Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant
11587			newsgroup. alt.button.play
11588
11589			Abigail
11590	root	1.387	%
11591	root	1.1	perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom.
11592
11593			perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis.
11594
11595			Martien
11596	root	1.387	%
11597	root	1.388	Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern
11598			nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar
11599			eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch
11600			etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine
11601	root	1.1	Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet
11602	root	1.388	Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man
11603			nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden
11604			unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine
11605			Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die
11606	root	1.1	Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine
11607	root	1.388	Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer
11608			selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da
11609	root	1.1	war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber
11610			nicht. ;)
11611
11612	root	1.388	Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes
11613			nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein
11614			fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den
11615	root	1.1	Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die
11616			Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen,
11617	root	1.388	daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch
11618	root	1.1	das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann.
11619
11620	root	1.388	Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz
11621			ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht.
11622	root	1.1	Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom
11623	root	1.388	ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder
11624	root	1.1	wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist.
11625
11626	root	1.388	Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen
11627	root	1.1	Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die
11628	root	1.388	"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal
11629			eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher
11630	root	1.1	ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an
11631	root	1.388	sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was -
11632	root	1.1	nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und
11633			"unvorstellbar".
11634
11635			Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
11636	root	1.387	%
11637	root	1.1	Marcel Richter wrote:
11638			> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327
11639			^^^
11640			fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-)
11641	root	1.387	%
11642	root	1.1	The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't
11643			do anything for you. --Ken Thompson
11644	root	1.387	%
11645	root	1.1	linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c:
11646			printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n");
11647	root	1.387	%
11648	root	1.1	>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in
11649			>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks.
11650			>Was sollte es denn sonst sein?
11651
11652			An artificial pile of rocks.
11653	root	1.387	%
11654	root	1.1	> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des
11655			> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende,
11656			> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich
11657			> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er
11658			> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte
11659			> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:)
11660
11661			Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des
11662			Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier
11663			sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein
11664			grosser Flipperautomat.
11665
11666			Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
11667	root	1.387	%
11668	root	1.1	> Kris Weilemann schrieb
11669			>
11670			> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt.
11671			> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit
11672			> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles
11673			> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im
11674			> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris.
11675	root	1.387	%
11676	root	1.388	... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre,
11677			daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben.
11678	root	1.1
11679			"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98
11680	root	1.387	%
11681	root	1.1	http://www.rsw.com/
11682
11683			The Unix shell as a 4GL
11684
11685			Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily
11686			perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the
11687			functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried
11688			over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power
11689			of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators,
11690			is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the
11691			Unix environment.
11692	root	1.387	%
11693	root	1.1	Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference
11694			between these:
11695
11696			time /3 ;#/; print "hello";
11697			sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye";
11698
11699			Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment.
11700			The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3
11701			;#", and the print gets executed!
11702
11703			There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with
11704			"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or
11705			"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy
11706			(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!).
11707
11708			Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is
11709			'perl'".
11710
11711			--
11712			Randal L. Schwartz
11713	root	1.387	%
11714	root	1.1	Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:
11715
11716			> Pascal AMRAM wrote:
11717			> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK
11718			>
11719			> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is....
11720
11721			It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH.
11722
11723			--
11724			Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
11725	root	1.387	%
11726	root	1.1	The management (my cats) made me say this.
11727	root	1.387	%
11728	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800:
11729			write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n");
11730	root	1.387	%
11731	root	1.1	uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363
11732			write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n");
11733	root	1.387	%
11734	root	1.1	Closures make sense in any programming language where you
11735			can have the return value of a function be itself a
11736			function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages
11737			provide anonymous functions but are not capable of
11738			providing proper closures; the Python language, for
11739			example.
11740	root	1.387	%
11741	root	1.1	When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to
11742			resemble a nail.
11743	root	1.387	%
11744	root	1.1	> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what
11745			> I did wrong.
11746
11747			What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl
11748			newsgroup.
11749	root	1.387	%
11750	root	1.1	I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular...
11751	root	1.387	%
11752	root	1.388	>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder
11753			>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann
11754	root	1.1	>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region.
11755
11756			Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was?
11757	root	1.387	%
11758	root	1.388	>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander.
11759	root	1.1
11760	root	1.388	Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o)
11761	root	1.387	%
11762	root	1.1	...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset
11763			my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it
11764			expired instantly!!!
11765	root	1.387	%
11766	root	1.1	From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
11767			To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com>
11768
11769			> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab
11770			> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer
11771			> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels.
11772
11773			I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles.
11774			He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as
11775			an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more
11776			than double Linus's programming experience?
11777
11778			> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is
11779			> pretty straight forward.
11780
11781			Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler,
11782			in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures.
11783	root	1.387	%
11784	root	1.1	Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte
11785			Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis
11786			fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer
11787			wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden
11788			kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert.
11789			Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung.
11790	root	1.387	%
11791	root	1.1	Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe)
11792	root	1.387	%
11793	root	1.1	hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup:
11794			Example:
11795			print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]];
11796	root	1.387	%
11797	root	1.1	liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once
11798			Randal gets his hands on it
11799	root	1.387	%
11800	root	1.1	Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity.
11801	root	1.387	%
11802	root	1.1	> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl?
11803
11804			No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the
11805			first if you get it working.
11806	root	1.387	%
11807	root	1.1	> Macintosh.
11808			> Think different.
11809
11810			Think Again.
11811	root	1.387	%
11812	root	1.1	Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com
11813	root	1.387	%
11814	root	1.1	tsatan@hotmail.com writes:
11815			> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ...
11816			> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4);
11817
11818			What do you want, Scheme? ;)
11819	root	1.387	%
11820	root	1.1	# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
11821			# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
11822	root	1.387	%
11823	root	1.1	\| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because
11824			\| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the
11825			\| top.
11826	root	1.387	%
11827	root	1.1	I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what
11828			he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board.
11829	root	1.387	%
11830	root	1.1	On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote:
11831			^^^^^^^^^
11832			>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell?
11833
11834			Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen.
11835	root	1.387	%
11836	root	1.1	>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG
11837			>gehen soll?
11838
11839	root	1.388	Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem
11840	root	1.1	materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in
11841			diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen.
11842	root	1.387	%
11843	root	1.1	Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!".
11844	root	1.387	%
11845	root	1.388	>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am
11846			>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde.
11847	root	1.1	>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten.
11848			>
11849			>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr.
11850
11851			Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken
11852			Schuh aus!
11853	root	1.387	%
11854	root	1.1	>Klingt nach Erdstillstand.
11855
11856	root	1.388	Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen
11857	root	1.1	eingeleitet?
11858	root	1.387	%
11859	root	1.1	Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule
11860
11861
11862			First opportunity
11863			Approximate
11864			Orbit Internet
11865			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11866
11867			4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6
11868			4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7
11869			4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7
11870			4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.)
11871
11872			Second opportunity
11873			Approximate
11874			Orbit Internet
11875			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11876
11877			4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14
11878			4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15
11879			4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15
11880			4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.)
11881
11882			Third opportunity
11883			Approximate
11884			Orbit Internet
11885			Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting
11886
11887			4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23
11888			4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24
11889			4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24
11890			4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.)
11891
11892	root	1.387	%
11893	root	1.1	> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem
11894	root	1.388	> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten
11895			> >würden.
11896	root	1.1	>
11897			> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur
11898			> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme.
11899			Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser
11900			unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine
11901			(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien.
11902			Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn
11903			implizierst.
11904	root	1.387	%
11905	root	1.1	> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill
11906			> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA.
11907	root	1.387	%
11908	root	1.1	Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels.
11909			Big improvement.
11910	root	1.387	%
11911	root	1.1	-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!"
11912			-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one
11913			over there. Besides, it's not an ope.."
11914			-- "Why that one?"
11915			-- "Because it's better, sinc.."
11916			-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!"
11917	root	1.387	%
11918	root	1.1	In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten
11919			Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt,
11920			wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine.
11921	root	1.387	%
11922	root	1.1	> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer
11923			> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung
11924			> etlicher Lebensformen?
11925
11926			Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich".
11927
11928			> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben
11929			> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln,
11930			> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind?
11931
11932			Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter".
11933
11934			> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der
11935			> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was
11936			> er eigentlich ist?
11937
11938	root	1.388	Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst
11939	root	1.1	Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln
11940	root	1.388	ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le-
11941	root	1.1	bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig
11942	root	1.388	länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was
11943	root	1.1	er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man
11944	root	1.388	als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix.
11945	root	1.1	Ciao
11946			Stefan
11947	root	1.387	%
11948	root	1.1	"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
11949			unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
11950			all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer."
11951			(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm)
11952	root	1.387	%
11953	root	1.1	Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's
11954			say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that
11955			determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write
11956			to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You
11957			can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register
11958			42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without
11959			knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets
11960			you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and
11961			off.
11962	root	1.387	%
11963	root	1.1	Join the Army,
11964			Meet interesting people,
11965			Kill them.
11966	root	1.387	%
11967	root	1.1	> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie
11968			> umwandelbar ist.
11969
11970			E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??)
11971	root	1.387	%
11972	root	1.388	>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen
11973	root	1.1	>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ).
11974	root	1.387	%
11975	root	1.1	> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote:
11976			>
11977			> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch
11978			> >> ruckartig.
11979			> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein??
11980			>
11981	root	1.388	> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde...
11982	root	1.1
11983			:-)
11984	root	1.387	%
11985	root	1.1	SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer
11986	root	1.388	rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten:
11987			"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären
11988	root	1.1	verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G.
11989			Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft,
11990			wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das
11991			entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe...
11992
11993			ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische
11994			Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde
11995	root	1.388	gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird,
11996			sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen
11997	root	1.1	Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober
11998	root	1.388	2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen
11999			Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der
12000			Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen
12001	root	1.1	Union.
12002
12003	root	1.388	RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028
12004			der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die
12005	root	1.1	Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der
12006	root	1.388	Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte
12007			er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues
12008			Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das
12009	root	1.1	Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten.
12010	root	1.387	%
12011	root	1.1	* Linux Viruscan.....
12012			Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y)
12013	root	1.387	%
12014	root	1.1	>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der
12015	root	1.388	>>Realität?
12016	root	1.1	>>
12017			>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt?
12018	root	1.388	>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte?
12019			>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte?
12020	root	1.1	>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat?
12021			>
12022			>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die
12023			>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls
12024	root	1.387	%
12025	root	1.1	"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'"
12026	root	1.387	%
12027	root	1.1	> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them
12028			> into a random order???
12029			>
12030
12031			@array=qw(1 2 3 4);
12032			print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n";
12033
12034			I've checked this against other possible random orderings
12035			of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as
12036			any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being
12037			that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random
12038			number less than 42.
12039	root	1.387	%
12040	root	1.1	From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that
12041			crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and
12042			another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the
12043			netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away.
12044			I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries
12045			called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might
12046			eventually invent Unix.
12047	root	1.387	%
12048	root	1.1	In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of
12049			the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important
12050			business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for
12051			typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have
12052			been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and
12053			plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called
12054			"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects
12055			typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with
12056			copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original
12057			designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore,
12058			some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West
12059			Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in
12060			Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to
12061			license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case
12062			in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader
12063			scale than would initially seem to be the case.
12064	root	1.387	%
12065	root	1.1	[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads]
12066			Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
12067			faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
12068	root	1.387	%
12069	root	1.1	Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem,
12070			using a Perl CGI script?
12071	root	1.387	%
12072	root	1.1	>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA?
12073
12074			One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last
12075			week.
12076	root	1.387	%
12077	root	1.1	Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines
12078			Brieweb> of PERL.
12079			No, that's an http proxy server. A simple web server is much shorter.
12080			From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"...
12081			[Randal Schwartz]
12082	root	1.387	%
12083	root	1.1	But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving
12084			capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason
12085			for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
12086			[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]]
12087	root	1.387	%
12088	root	1.1	Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual
12089			programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it.
12090			It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend
12091			hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system
12092			to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you
12093			use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++
12094			programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It
12095			also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed
12096			system and restricting their options.
12097			[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl']
12098	root	1.387	%
12099	root	1.1	<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today?
12100			<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow?
12101			<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?!
12102	root	1.387	%
12103	root	1.1	"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our
12104			society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct."
12105			Ernie Hai
12106			Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project
12107	root	1.387	%
12108	root	1.1	: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong
12109			: results" report from the users.
12110
12111			if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would
12112			be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as
12113			"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U
12114			TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!"
12115	root	1.387	%
12116	root	1.1	There are many intelligent species in the Universe.
12117			They are all owned by cats.
12118	root	1.387	%
12119	root	1.1	Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble
12120			attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply?
12121			You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that.
12122	root	1.387	%
12123	root	1.1	From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca>
12124			Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ...
12125
12126			Yesterday it worked
12127			Today it is not working
12128			Windows is like that
12129			- - -
12130			wind catches lily
12131			scatt'ring petals to the wind:
12132			segmentation fault
12133			- - -
12134			Three things are certain:
12135			Death, taxes, and lost data.
12136			Guess which has occurred.
12137			- - -
12138			A file that big?
12139			It might be very useful.
12140			But now it is gone.
12141			- - -
12142			Windows NT crashed.
12143			I am the Blue Screen of Death.
12144			No one hears your screams.
12145			- - -
12146			Errors have occurred.
12147			We won't tell you where or why.
12148			Lazy programmers.
12149			- - -
12150			Seeing my great fault
12151			Through darkening blue windows
12152			I begin again
12153			- - -
12154			The code was willing,
12155			It considered your request,
12156			But the chips were weak.
12157			- - -
12158			Printer not ready.
12159			Could be a fatal error.
12160			Have a pen handy?
12161			- - -
12162			Server's poor response
12163			Not quick enough for browser.
12164			Timed out, plum blossom.
12165			- - -
12166			Chaos reigns within.
12167			Reflect, repent, and reboot.
12168			Order shall return.
12169			- - -
12170			Login incorrect.
12171			Only perfect spellers may
12172			enter this system.
12173			- - -
12174			This site has been moved.
12175			We'd tell you where, but then we'd
12176			have to delete you.
12177			- - -
12178			ABORTED effort:
12179			Close all that you have.
12180			You ask way too much.
12181			- - -
12182			First snow, then silence.
12183			This thousand dollar screen dies
12184			so beautifully.
12185			- - -
12186			With searching comes loss
12187			and the presence of absence:
12188			"My Novel" not found.
12189			- - -
12190			The Tao that is seen
12191			Is not the true Tao, until
12192			You bring fresh toner.
12193			- - -
12194			The Web site you seek
12195			cannot be located but
12196			endless others exist
12197			- - -
12198			Stay the patient course
12199			Of little worth is your ire
12200			The network is down
12201			- - -
12202			A crash reduces
12203			your expensive computer
12204			to a simple stone.
12205			- - -
12206			There is a chasm
12207			of carbon and silicon
12208			the software can't bridge
12209			- - -
12210			To have no errors
12211			Would be life without meaning
12212			No struggle, no joy
12213			- - -
12214			You step in the stream,
12215			but the water has moved on.
12216			This page is not here.
12217			- - -
12218			No keyboard present
12219			Hit F1 to continue
12220			Zen engineering?
12221			- - -
12222			Hal, open the file
12223			Hal, open the damn file, Hal
12224			open it, please Hal
12225			- - -
12226			Out of memory.
12227			We wish to hold the whole sky,
12228			But we never will.
12229			- - -
12230			Having been erased,
12231			The document you're seeking
12232			Must now be retyped.
12233			- - -
12234			The ten thousand things
12235			How long do any persist?
12236			Netscape, too, has gone.
12237			- - -
12238			Rather than a beep
12239			Or a rude error message,
12240			These words: "File not found."
12241			- - -
12242			Serious error.
12243			All shortcuts have disappeared
12244			Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
12245	root	1.387	%
12246	root	1.1	"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
12247			to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265.
12248	root	1.387	%
12249	root	1.1	> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for
12250			> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is?
12251
12252			Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the
12253			early 1980s.
12254	root	1.387	%
12255	root	1.1	> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while
12256			> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed
12257			> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh
12258			> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work
12259
12260			I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone
12261			with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT
12262			control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they
12263			introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if
12264			you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so
12265			many new features that it just stops working.
12266
12267			This also applies to Microsoft products.
12268
12269			> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can
12270			> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:)
12271
12272			Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which
12273			really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You
12274			know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages.
12275
12276			Hope this explains what's going on
12277			Martien Verbruggen
12278	root	1.387	%
12279	root	1.1	...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you...
12280	root	1.387	%
12281	root	1.1	X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM).
12282	root	1.387	%
12283	root	1.1	-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen ---------
12284	root	1.387	%
12285	root	1.1	"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung
12286			unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der
12287			Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
12288	root	1.387	%
12289	root	1.1	> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners.
12290			> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont
12291			> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file)
12292			>
12293			> Just make sure you understand it ;)
12294
12295			I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to
12296			think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too.
12297	root	1.387	%
12298	root	1.1	Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island
12299			where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers
12300			until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and
12301			should be posted on March 1st or 2nd.
12302	root	1.387	%
12303	root	1.1	But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't
12304			even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the
12305			individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross
12306			the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels
12307			attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The
12308			motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries
12309			are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or
12310			convienience store.")
12311	root	1.387	%
12312	root	1.1	: how do i make my perl script run?
12313			Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body
12314	root	1.387	%
12315	root	1.1	for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive
12316	root	1.424	>>> ToiLeTGoD
12317	root	1.1
12318			Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work.
12319			Pretty cool name, dude. (not)
12320	root	1.387	%
12321	root	1.1	Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts,
12322			including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet
12323			background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland
12324			populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null.
12325	root	1.387	%
12326	root	1.1	Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like
12327			kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons.
12328			-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
12329	root	1.387	%
12330	root	1.1	The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
12331			(A => B) => (B => A)
12332			(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
12333			(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub
12334	root	1.387	%
12335	root	1.1	cal 9 1752
12336	root	1.387	%
12337	root	1.1	Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug.
12338			-Barry Shein
12339	root	1.387	%
12340	root	1.1	And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around
12341			by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and
12342			read the manual.
12343	root	1.387	%
12344	root	1.1	"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
12345	root	1.387	%
12346	root	1.1	I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require
12347			that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem,
12348			the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof,
12349			Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem
12350			in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but
12351			it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress
12352			from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter
12353			to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause
12354			for pause. You just can't do that without proper training.
12355	root	1.387	%
12356	root	1.1	comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation
12357	root	1.387	%
12358	root	1.1	I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else
12359			is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even
12360			the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys.
12361	root	1.387	%
12362	root	1.1	> Help help! Pls advise me thru email.
12363
12364			I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you
12365			need.
12366	root	1.387	%
12367	root	1.1	Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
12368			powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
12369			deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
12370	root	1.387	%
12371	root	1.1	I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped
12372			lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor"
12373			newsreaders. You know,
12374			those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then
12375			back
12376			again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful
12377			to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure
12378			out what they're saying.
12379	root	1.387	%
12380	root	1.1	It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93
12381			million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them.
12382	root	1.387	%
12383	root	1.1	I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT;
12384			U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a
12385			newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-)
12386
12387			But the combination.... sutters
12388	root	1.387	%
12389	root	1.1	Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows.
12390			Darn it.
12391	root	1.387	%
12392	root	1.1	At least he didn't post in all caps.
12393	root	1.387	%
12394	root	1.1	http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
12395	root	1.387	%
12396	root	1.1	I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but
12397			the majority of people trying to use them are from the
12398			"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required"
12399			school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those
12400			trying to use it.
12401	root	1.387	%
12402	root	1.1	"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't."
12403	root	1.387	%
12404	root	1.1	cdog wrote:
12405			>
12406			> Is this group active?
12407			No.
12408
12409			If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you
12410			probably could have come to that conclusion yourself.
12411
12412			On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and
12413			345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting.
12414	root	1.387	%
12415	root	1.1	"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
12416			-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
12417	root	1.387	%
12418	root	1.1	"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition.
12419			Press any key to continue..."
12420	root	1.387	%
12421	root	1.1	NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix
12422			isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing
12423			itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground...
12424	root	1.387	%
12425	root	1.1	The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is
12426			considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that
12427			it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to
12428			adjust your travel plans.
12429	root	1.387	%
12430	root	1.388	"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge
12431			hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti
12432	root	1.387	%
12433	root	1.1	The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its
12434			highly recursive nature. It's defined as:
12435
12436			tak x y z = z, if y >= x
12437			= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise
12438
12439			For this benchmark, the function is invoked as:
12440
12441			tak 18 12 6
12442	root	1.387	%
12443	root	1.1	"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
12444			-- Bill Gates
12445			"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
12446			-- Bill Gates
12447			"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
12448			-- logical conclusion
12449	root	1.387	%
12450	root	1.1	Year Name James Bond Book
12451			- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ----
12452			50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson
12453			1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958
12454			1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957
12455			1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959
12456			1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961
12457			1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954
12458			1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964
12459			1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963
12460			1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956
12461			1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955
12462			1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965
12463			1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette)
12464			1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955
12465			1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12466			1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965
12467			1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery
12468			1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette)
12469			1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette)
12470			* -- Not a Broccoli production.
12471	root	1.387	%
12472	root	1.1	Windows NT: n.
12473			32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit
12474			operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
12475			by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
12476	root	1.387	%
12477	root	1.388	Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel.