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Diomidis Spinellis
f86495e781 The Ken Thompson school of thought on expert systems: 
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. 
Professionals built the Titanic.
 2004-10-27 20:28:56 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a35d88931c For variables that are only checked with defined(), don't provide 
any fake value.
 2004-10-24 15:33:08 +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. 
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 
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. 
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/ 
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 
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 
Guiseppe) Gandi.

Submitted by:	Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com>
MFC after:	3 days
 2004-07-26 21:18:58 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
3e7ee83cbd Make this WARNS=3 clean. 
PR:            bin/38931
Submitted by:  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
 2004-07-23 11:36:35 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
e231995bb9 Fix typos. 
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. 
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. 
PR:            misc/45839
Submitted by:  Philipp Mergenthaler
               <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
 2004-07-20 08:19:51 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
248ad594ab Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 21:16:38 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a7bbcd9a7d mdoc(7): Correct the type of the display. 2004-07-02 21:15:48 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
e60883c5a2 Add a Nicollism. 2004-06-24 03:08:44 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
07c1e2e1de Discontinue use of old libcompat regexp routines. 2004-06-21 16:07:30 +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 
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) 
* 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, 
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* 
Submitted by:	Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to:	me, again
 2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
Tony Finch
00b1a2a12f Pedantry. 
Submitted by:	njl@
 2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
Tony Finch
aa0bdecb75 On the signs of network congestion. 
Submitted by:	Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
 2004-05-11 10:00:14 +00:00
Tony Finch
fffbf07a36 Re-sort 2004-05-10 23:02:07 +00:00
Tony Finch
7475c308d4 Moore's law vs. Nethack 
Submitted by:   Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
 2004-05-10 23:00:26 +00:00
Colin Percival
9a34ab29f0 Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong. 2004-04-29 06:14:00 +00:00
Sean Kelly
57268cd141 Add a new fortune from petef. 
Obtained from: petef
 2004-04-29 04:36:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
4bb464ddb9 Add jerk city commentary on C++. 2004-04-27 22:32:02 +00:00
Greg Lehey
6a9114196c Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages. 2004-04-21 22:39:46 +00:00
Ceri Davies
14f166b706 Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele. 
"Ukulele" is the canonical term, with "ukelele" being a derivation.
Also there is some evidence that the original appearance of the quote
had the spelling "ukulele", although anyone who has a copy of Esquire
from March 1967 is welcome to prove me wrong.

PR:		bin/65626
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
 2004-04-20 19:20:17 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b0487aaa20 Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering. 2004-03-22 05:02:01 +00:00
Colin Percival
25f718f0b7 Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR has 
a patch to mention portupgrade in freebsd-tips as well; I'm not
sure if that belongs here, so I'll leave it for someone else.

PR:		misc/37073
Submitted by:	Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Approved by:	rwatson (mentor)
 2004-02-18 05:18:27 +00:00
Wes Peters
b2cbee8f60 Too good to miss. 
Wisdumb by:	Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
 2004-02-09 18:45:25 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9c83887e23 "The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling. 
Spotted by:	grog
 2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e65046462a typo, duh! 2004-01-13 08:00:55 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b073ad98d This is simply too true to not become a fortune. 
Wisdom by:	wes
 2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
cf8dceeb43 Add a tip on how to print a manual page. 
PR:		docs/61033
Submitted by:	mi@
 2004-01-07 19:49:12 +00:00
Ceri Davies
5aad4fa276 Stop "fortune -l" from looping forever. 
PR:		bin/58730
Submitted by:	pak <pak@cns.utoronto.ca>
 2003-12-27 16:04:41 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d910ed771d Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a 
few typos.
 2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
76e762998c Use WARNS level 2 instead of setting CFLAGS explicitly to -Wall. 2003-12-07 17:34:52 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
41ea5e4b77 A too good Feynman quote to pass up. 2003-12-07 10:03:20 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
5645e50570 Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection. 2003-11-12 20:08:47 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
094e585d1c reformat HP eng. mgr quote 
Requested by: nate
 2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
92797e8470 Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'. 
PR:		58909
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after:	1 week
 2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b6f0aad2fb Addition. 2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
32f3fff9ac A comment about spam and cockroaches. 
Suggested by:	dwmalone
 2003-10-16 15:25:19 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
f8aa6f0c29 Fix typo. 2003-10-15 10:25:31 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9301f38e84 Correct a typo (s/And/An/) 2003-10-12 11:37:15 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
3319e41ce0 Removed "Gerat" which is a typo of "Great". 
Added FreeBSD ID.
 2003-10-08 16:49:19 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
b3b86d2929 Retrocomputing alternate history.... 2003-10-07 15:09:19 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
bebbcc8ef8 Polish last fortune. 
Suggested by: nate
 2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e95a20fe4f 'Upon the release of the second version' 
Suggested that this is fortune material: rene@tunix.nl
MFC after: 2 weeks
 2003-10-06 19:34:35 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
2b4226712d Fix spelling/grammar errors and remove a duplicate 2003-09-13 15:46:35 +00:00
Doug Barton
461722f0f2 * Fix a duplicate "how how" 
* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
 2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
Ceri Davies
994d89af83 Correct a grammatical error. 
PR:		misc/54967
Submitted by:	Paul A. Scott <pscott@the-frontier.org>
MFC After:	4 weeks
 2003-08-25 20:08:16 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
90862ca23d LANG->LC_ALL 
Pointed by:     ru
 2003-08-04 21:31:53 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
ca87b783b5 Use LANG=C before tr to be shure that ranges are correct 2003-08-04 15:31:57 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
b131d40522 Rename collate_range_cmp() to stable_collate_range_cmp() to indicate 
that it is not the common variant.
Remove doubtful microoptimization there.
 2003-08-03 19:44:36 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
5ab032d6c6 Fix a tip about how to create an empty file[1]. 
Remove tip about retired kget(8).
Fix a typo.

PR:	conf/54334
Submitted by:	Mark Huizer <xaa+sendpr@timewasters.nl>
MFC after:	3 days
 2003-08-02 20:36:28 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
42e271cf22 Remove a duplicate entry. 2003-07-25 11:14:03 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
87956a4441 Eliminate a duplicate. 2003-07-14 22:22:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
12008234da Add a quote of wpaul@ explaining the importance of including requested 
content when replying to an e-mail.
 2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
8a4b3625b6 Correct some typos. 
Submitted by:	pscott@the-frontier.org
PR:		misc/51909
MFC After:	The average lifetime of a Star Trek redshirt
 2003-07-13 03:49:43 +00:00
Gregory Sutter
f55ae2fa26 Remove near-duplicate entry, keeping the better attributed one. 2003-06-19 22:52:50 +00:00
Murray Stokely
16f4e196f2 In the build process, fortune files have been randomized since at 
least the 4.4-lite days.  This is pointless, since fortune(6) performs
its own randomization.  It was also problematic for binary update
systems such as ports/security/freebsd-update.  This commit simply
removes the -r option to strfile so that the datfiles are constant.

Submitted by:	Colin Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca>
 2003-06-19 07:02:00 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
0eecaa8d98 Preserve an involunteerily joke SunCheckup has been providing. 
(NB: the space before the colon in the second line is authentic, please
don't remove.)
 2003-06-18 12:46:20 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
f7f024d9cc Fixup three rather minor typos that have irked me over time. 2003-05-31 16:27:53 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
e3c85e0226 Make the __FBSDID usage consistent 
and protect copyright[] from Gcc 3.3's whining.
 2003-05-05 09:52:25 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
c8190e399c Add a new chance at getting offended, having removed so many. 2003-03-24 18:59:00 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
8c75812a68 Remove duplicates 2003-03-24 18:58:16 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
b33af6fc9d Fix two more typos 2003-03-24 18:56:36 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
cc301fdaa5 Fix typos 2003-03-19 18:21:42 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
1587fcdce6 Fix typo 2003-03-19 18:14:47 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
b594bd6d9a Remove duplicates 2003-03-19 17:55:17 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
6ff4f27715 Fix typos 2003-03-19 17:54:22 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
68fc9ca99a Refactor two sexual jokes to murphy-o 2003-03-19 17:50:59 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
331fce2ee7 Improved version of Unix sex. 
Submitted by: Chris Wasser <cwasser@shaw.ca>
 2003-03-17 20:59:50 +00:00
Greg Lehey
11b8cdf76c Add long-term view of astronomy. 
Submitted by:	newton

The attribution appears to be correct according to
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/sagan.htm.  Others have apparently
attributed it to Carl Sagan.
 2003-03-15 02:10:53 +00:00
Tony Finch
587d9e3727 At the risk of serious physical abuse from markm, add another regex joke, 
but s/regex/regular expression/g for terminological consistency.
 2003-03-10 19:58:37 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
8f01b038f7 We were low on regex jokes. Now we are *really* low on them. 2003-03-10 13:47:43 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
17d21c5710 Fix style of recent additions and sort. 2003-02-26 04:41:58 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
f8b259a69a Add a great quote from Linus Torvalds about BDE. 2003-02-26 03:42:10 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
e426ee5d51 EMACS joke (no, not EMACS itself). 2003-02-24 18:04:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
5a99c48ef3 Fix a grammar bogon. 
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after:	4.8 is out the door.
 2003-02-24 17:52:02 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
20aef63915 Add a quote from Bob Schieffer's recent book about freedom of the press. 2003-02-23 06:14:04 +00:00
Ceri Davies
a92acc1aed "Happiness" is a noun. 
PR:		misc/47345
Submitted by:	Ben Rosengart <ben@narcissus.net>
 2003-02-18 20:49:12 +00:00
Tony Finch
59da8bd213 Add Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming. 2003-02-18 20:34:13 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
25ef827219 Correct typos. 
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after:	4.8 is out the door
 2003-02-16 18:38:12 +00:00
Robert Drehmel
571c3db70d Remove the suggestion to try `hangman', because it does not exist 
in the base system anymore.
 2003-02-15 09:11:25 +00:00
Wes Peters
24860c5a80 Add Warner Losh quote. 
Submitted by:	Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
 2003-02-11 21:38:02 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
961ce4ff77 Immortalize a Robert Watson quote. 2003-02-10 17:34:32 +00:00
Tony Finch
77e48fe336 Add an explanation of why indirection is good. Remove an indirection 
filk that also appears in fortunes2.
 2003-01-23 19:23:52 +00:00