Ruslan Ermilov
12e13d5f73
Ignore consonants, and remove more duplicates.
2005-02-03 10:54:07 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
70ffe5d36d
Removed more duplicates (forgot to ignore underscore).
2005-02-03 09:44:30 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f6f56f8b95
Keep the fortune above this.
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Reviewed by: sheldonh
2005-02-03 09:28:45 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
653dbafed5
Remove more duplicates.
2005-02-03 09:27:01 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
760542ba2e
Ignore vowels, and remove more duplicates, mostly due to typos.
2005-02-03 09:13:02 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
1f95f872ae
Trim some obnoxious warlording.
2005-02-03 08:47:14 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
57bc1cfb15
Removed more duplicates, by ignoring "i", "you", "we",
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"an", "is", "are", "will", "'ll", "is", "'s" to find
them. More to follow...
2005-02-03 08:40:08 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
3aa9a20802
Merged fortunes with fortunes2.
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Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).
2005-02-03 00:20:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
5896d2bb13
Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2.
2005-02-02 10:24:11 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
150ea19c8e
Ignore case and all non-word characters, and remove more duplicates.
2005-02-01 16:34:38 +00:00
Pav Lucistnik
647273571c
- Add few lines from my personal signature file
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Suggested by: Florent Thoumie
Approved by: mux
2005-02-01 16:22:44 +00:00
Sean Kelly
6eb48b5f02
Remove another duplicate fortune.
2005-02-01 15:48:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
ec28d17dba
Removed full duplicates that only differ in amount of whitespace
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and line breaks.
2005-02-01 15:15:33 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
8d347b59e1
Remove a duplicate.
2005-02-01 14:10:41 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
0447ccf320
s/principals/principles/
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Fortune was duplicated, remove one copy.
2005-01-22 20:00:50 +00:00
Greg Lehey
9322e0f841
Add comment on current state of hardware documentation.
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Submitted by: philip
2005-01-19 23:34:25 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
55bf0e4475
Remove committer-specific entry.
2005-01-18 11:52:19 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0763230837
Minor bit of advice.
2005-01-17 10:06:12 +00:00
Doug Barton
f01bcd33ff
1. s/women/woman/ when the singular is intended
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2. Remove some duplicates
3. Slightly improve a punch line, "and then cut off her head"
instead of "and cut her head off."
2005-01-11 00:25:38 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
60c658a7ff
Correct two typos in almost identical fortunes.
2005-01-10 12:03:32 +00:00
Josef El-Rayes
87695ac7ae
There is a better way to find out whether a port is installed or not.
2005-01-03 14:17:23 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
895e960f4c
Correct two typos; remove a duplicate.
2004-12-30 12:18:30 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
5f7c5b5db6
"3 hands"
2004-12-24 12:59:26 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
86e3437258
From Richard W. Hamming ``You and Your Research''
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Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar
7 March 1986 by J. F. Kaiser:
There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are
sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts
that people cannot think.
2004-12-11 21:57:27 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
f86495e781
The Ken Thompson school of thought on expert systems:
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there's table lookup, fraud, and grand fraud.
-- Andrew Hume
USENIX'04 Technical Conference, reported by Adam S. Moskowitz
;Login: 29(5):49, October 2004.
2004-11-27 08:28:58 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
cc00e79feb
s/Here about/Hear about/ and sort accordingly.
2004-11-12 10:15:43 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
20441b2ec2
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark.
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Professionals built the Titanic.
2004-10-27 20:28:56 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6373a876a4
Improve accuracy of last addition, as best Google advices me.
2004-10-22 19:59:37 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
c99726d396
I'm surprised this one was not here yet.
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To save you all a trip to CVSWEB:
Experts have correctly predicted nine out of the last five recessions.
-- Paul Samuelson, Nobel laureate in economics.
2004-10-22 16:18:15 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
fa38f371c8
The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
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thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools. - Thucydides
2004-09-29 19:52:19 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
aaa7f2858e
Fix make search entries.
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PR: docs/70899
Submitted by: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
2004-08-24 11:30:28 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
196d7a9b0c
s/the on/on the/
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PR: misc/70842
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
2004-08-23 11:00:20 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
0f81131e63
Immortalize the words of a -current reader.
2004-08-20 13:39:28 +00:00
Robert Watson
e10d31a8f2
Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrand
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Russell.
2004-08-15 19:24:17 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
29cf807a18
Correct grammo.
2004-08-14 06:29:17 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
d453d5bc01
The name of the landlord in Shaw's _The Man of Destiny_ is Giuseppe (not
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Guiseppe) Gandi.
Submitted by: Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com>
MFC after: 3 days
2004-07-26 21:18:58 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
e231995bb9
Fix typos.
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PR: misc/67586
Submitted by: Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net>
2004-07-20 08:32:42 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
2a5395ddef
Fix whitespace and punctuation.
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PR: misc/49967
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
2004-07-20 08:28:28 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
efd0e5f49e
Remove duplicate fortunes and fix some typos.
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PR: misc/45839
Submitted by: Philipp Mergenthaler
<philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
2004-07-20 08:19:51 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
e60883c5a2
Add a Nicollism.
2004-06-24 03:08:44 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
cad27670ff
Correct assorted typos and grammos.
2004-06-10 21:03:34 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fb86d10eff
Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman.
2004-06-01 09:45:16 +00:00
Doug Barton
f4d7361ecf
Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entry
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by using the text from the Villard Books edition (1989, pages 6 through
8) and formatting to fit in 72 columns.
2004-06-01 05:00:46 +00:00
Doug Barton
afe8bb313c
* Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace)
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* Spell out some names that were pointlessly abbreviated
* Remove a couple of incidental duplicates
* Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was added to his
name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore it's not usually punctuated.
* Format a couple of actual fortunes to fit into 72 columns
2004-06-01 04:32:11 +00:00
Doug Barton
7934cbe0d3
Remove duplicates of the "wherever you go, there you are" fortune,
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quote directly from the movie, and give a better attribution (with
correct spelling) for Buckaroo Banzai.
2004-06-01 00:16:32 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
7aab90d5f7
Definition of recursion.
2004-05-25 19:15:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
3231abbd6d
Added forgotten quotes for citations.
2004-05-20 08:15:58 +00:00
Tony Finch
a27113d965
I *knew* it would be a bad idea to touch the fortunes. *sigh*
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Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to: me, again
2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
Tony Finch
00b1a2a12f
Pedantry.
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Submitted by: njl@
2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
Tony Finch
aa0bdecb75
On the signs of network congestion.
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Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-11 10:00:14 +00:00