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321 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
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
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
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
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
Jens Schweikhardt
d447a23756 s/Kank/Kang/ (the klingon)
PR:	misc/45012
Submitted by:	Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org>
2003-01-04 17:08:23 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9d5abbddbf Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d64ada501a Fix typos, mostly s/ an / a / where appropriate and a few s/an/and/
Add FreeBSD Id tag where missing.
2002-12-30 21:18:15 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
a17eb04b82 Fix a typo. Add FreeBSD ID in a %% comment.
MFC after:	3 days
2002-11-17 09:53:11 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
398fba8499 set watch in tcsh requires an equal sign after the variable name.
MFC after:	1 day
2002-11-16 13:24:44 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
c2c821be56 Add gerrold.limerick to the building process. 2002-11-10 23:41:01 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
e8fa871053 Finished at last. 2002-11-10 23:37:25 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
40276eb1ea Filling this file at last (now check when I first committed it and see how
long certain people take to return books...).

Still more to go.
2002-11-09 22:22:52 +00:00
Tony Finch
34faf20fae The future's bright: the future's Ballard... 2002-10-30 01:00:48 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6baff12cf5 Add a fortune for people who have read their classics. 2002-10-29 10:16:06 +00:00
Tom Hukins
7031dac23d Minor grammatical correction 2002-10-20 13:41:44 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
7d23144bd5 Fix the path to the make.conf example file.
PR:		docs/44278
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
2002-10-19 21:34:50 +00:00
Tony Finch
078b5daef7 So a positive time zone offset is west, right? or is it east? Um.
What is the standard for this, anyway? Ah, we get to choose. I see.

This commit is brought to you by the numbers 2001 and 2822 and the
letters P, O, S, I, X and R, F, C.
2002-10-19 04:49:10 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
6563eb85ee s/seems to thing/seems to think
X-MFC after:	4.7 is out the door
2002-09-21 16:13:20 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
dd549a74d0 Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate
Bertrand Russell quotations.
2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
Juli Mallett
d946bf7892 Add a tip about using sed(1)'s FreeBSD-specific -i option.
MFC after:	42 days
2002-09-04 23:28:35 +00:00
David Malone
a5fe067b05 Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.
PR:		7434
2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
a2c4d39d54 Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends.
Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.
2002-08-09 20:37:01 +00:00
Tony Finch
37609309c2 Re-sort. 2002-08-09 19:54:11 +00:00
Tony Finch
6ad860e1cf Remove spurious quotes. 2002-08-09 19:31:27 +00:00
Tony Finch
868052707a Correctly sort previous addition. 2002-08-09 19:30:20 +00:00
Tony Finch
7ce9cc80b4 Some more advice from Dijkstra. 2002-08-09 19:08:02 +00:00
Tony Finch
e3b282d990 Fix a couple of typos in a Dijkstra quote. 2002-08-09 19:00:10 +00:00
David Malone
f895acf90f Fix a typo.
PR:		40539
Submitted by:	Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
2002-07-14 22:50:12 +00:00
David Malone
ffaa6f7c38 Fix a typo.
PR:		40523
Submitted by:	Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>
2002-07-14 15:28:01 +00:00
Peter Wemm
744c5368b2 Fix whitespace botch in previous commit. 2002-07-09 06:47:29 +00:00
Peter Wemm
518b7839f2 Add C code that counts the bits in a 32 bit word, right next to the C code
that reverses the bits in a 32 bit word.  Who thinks up this stuff?
2002-07-09 02:56:10 +00:00
Mark Peek
a5499ad829 Paraphrase a quote to remove year specific references.
PR:		40291
Submitted by:	Pierre-Paul Lavoie <ppl@nbnet.nb.ca>
2002-07-07 16:13:48 +00:00
Doug Barton
99bb09292c Correctly attribute a Douglas Adams quote, and remove a duplicate of
the same quote.
2002-05-15 04:35:27 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
bff11a8c74 s/-300K/~300K/
This is an absolute (kelvin) temperature.  I expect that in the original
source it was typeset as $\sim 300~{\rm K}$ or similar, meaning
"approximately 300 K".  Changing it to a minus sign in the fortunes file
was clearly an error, as absolute temperatures are by definition positive.
2002-05-01 06:20:57 +00:00
Doug Barton
ab4b9024b8 More ispell fun 2002-04-30 10:13:42 +00:00
Doug Barton
9e70deb400 Fix a few more of my typos, a few others I noticed, and some ispell help. 2002-04-30 08:08:31 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
c944cdca84 Correct typo (is -> us). 2002-04-30 07:36:44 +00:00
Juli Mallett
a85dfc0c55 Add something absurd I used one night as an example of CS overcomplication
of things most hackers take for granted.
2002-04-29 06:26:12 +00:00
Juli Mallett
b2d9070d05 Add one more here.
Submitted by:	Glen "Going to be a Daddy" Neff
2002-04-29 02:00:53 +00:00
Juli Mallett
6026955eaa Remove a Kurt Vonnegut quote that appears in fortunes. 2002-04-29 01:44:16 +00:00