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901 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Poul-Henning Kamp
e9a1a34366 Data is not information;
Information is not knowledge;
	Knowledge is not wisdom
			-- Gary Flake
2005-04-13 06:11:49 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
6f3997749c s/self-distruction/self-destruction 2005-04-10 10:53:26 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ebf3f2a194 He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light
without darkening me.
       -- Thomas Jefferson on patents on ideas.
2005-03-22 07:41:22 +00:00
Murray Stokely
7803a8a051 Typo.
PR:		conf/77178
Submitted by:	Andras Jako <jako.andras@eik.bme.hu>
MFC after:	1 week
2005-03-19 02:44:41 +00:00
Philip Paeps
f5ba17d43b These words, while not spoken about anything even slightly related, are very,
very applicable when waiting for world to compile *grin*

Impatience award to:	philip
2005-03-14 21:50:25 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
abe57788f7 Remove dublicate entries and correct apostrophe abuse.
Submitted by:	Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
2005-03-13 13:20:07 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
f92907365d Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics. 2005-03-07 06:05:14 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
eabf308004 Another good Dijkstra quote. 2005-03-04 09:47:22 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ed4d64dbf7 Add missing quote. 2005-03-03 18:32:50 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
52b9f7a5b1 Wisdom from 1972. 2005-03-03 18:07:23 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
53365f4b43 Give a better advice on how to convert DOS text to UNIX text.
The former tip used `col -bx', which would not only discard
CR's, but also expand TAB's and remove BS'en.  This effect is
not always wanted.

MFC after:	1 week
2005-02-28 17:05:00 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
02d5d57aba Add a neat remark on the popular belief that the universe is a safe
the man ought to break open and rob.
2005-02-26 12:49:03 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
423120f127 Fixed warnings and bump WARNS to 6. 2005-02-23 20:59:03 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8b8984d523 Bump WARNS to 6. 2005-02-23 20:42:47 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
be2ff1d140 Make the on-disk format of .dat files produced by strfile(8)
architecture independent.  Besides the fixed-width types in
the header, the offsets are now stored as 64-bit off_t (also
in big endian format).

Tested on:	i386, amd64, sparc64, ia64
2005-02-17 18:06:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
36a142c455 Expand contractions. 2005-02-13 23:45:54 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0227791b40 Expand *n't contractions. 2005-02-13 22:25:33 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6324f7db72 Sync program's usage() with manpage's SYNOPSIS. 2005-02-09 18:22:15 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f83442ac87 Keep only one style of Pittsburgh driver's tests.
Noticed by:	Pawel Worach
2005-02-08 10:42:22 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0b4978b4ea An aggressive little script I used to trim out duplicate fortunes. 2005-02-07 21:15:16 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6325a5d282 Trim more cookies, by playing with different hash functions,
e.g., by trimming all non-alphabet characters and whitespace,
converting to lowercase, and considering only first (or last)
N letters (maybe only consonants).  The fortune editor then
displays all fortunes that have the same hash, and allows to
remove one of them.  The rest is written to stdout.
2005-02-07 21:00:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
fb7b9592c7 s/worman/woman/ 2005-02-03 22:48:29 +00:00
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.
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",
"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.
Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).
2005-02-03 00:20:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
1269b8ed60 Fix bugs.
Due to one of the bugs (^C was the first character of each line
when sorting), the -b option of sort(1) didn't take any effect,
so stay bug-compatible, and remove the -b option.
2005-02-03 00:18:06 +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
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
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/
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.
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
Ruslan Ermilov
70c55092de Sort sections. 2005-01-18 08:57:18 +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
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
Ruslan Ermilov
a216173556 NOCRYPT -> NO_CRYPT 2004-12-21 10:16:04 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
e653b48c80 Start the dreaded NOFOO -> NO_FOO conversion.
OK'ed by:	core
2004-12-21 08:47:35 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
86e3437258 From Richard W. Hamming ``You and Your Research''
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:
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
Stefan Farfeleder
5618536d0b Properly initialise 'filename' so that random -l doesn't try to open NULL.
Const-qualify 'filename' to avoid a strdup() call due to -Wwrite-strings
silliness.
2004-10-03 15:34:15 +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
Stefan Farfeleder
e71c114c97 Include <stdlib.h> for exit(), use prototypes and bump WARNS to 6. 2004-08-01 18:52:40 +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
Stefan Farfeleder
2e96a4c68b Resolve a couple of warnings and bump WARNS to 6. 2004-07-11 17:26:18 +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
Ruslan Ermilov
fc583d20af Markup fixes. 2004-05-16 21:52:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6c1a40fc90 Really add -l to the usage output. 2004-05-16 21:49:23 +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
Diomidis Spinellis
c3cd9d1f90 Add Greek character encoding suport.
MFC after:	2 weeks
2004-05-11 11:11:14 +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
Bruce Evans
ca7c255049 Fixed a mispelling of 0 as NULL. 2004-03-14 05:28:29 +00:00
Tony Finch
bb7b96678f Label @ as being AC (since it's constructed like a prosign).
Submitted by:	des
2004-02-20 13:46:39 +00:00
Tony Finch
ac5940be9d Add some missing punctuation symbols, in particular @ which (according to
a recent Press Association release) was added to Morse code by the ITU in
December. @ was previously used for the SK prosign, which is now spelt &.

Obtained from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
2004-02-20 11:55:38 +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