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Greg Lehey
e29e66e0c3 Wisdom of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. 
Submitted by: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
 2006-12-13 00:33:39 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
576be2064b o Fix typo: manger -> manager. 
PR:		misc/106253
Submitted by:	Niclas Zeising
MFC after:	1 week
 2006-12-03 15:25:55 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
7300fd9b5e o /stand/sysinstall -> /usr/sbin/sysinstall. 
PR:		conf/106254
Submitted by:	Simon Olofsson
MFC after:	1 week
 2006-12-03 15:22:45 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
b133abd183 Squash a typo. 
Submitted by:	Miltiadis Margaronis <mmargaron@gmail.com>
 2006-10-30 12:01:57 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
bc968064a9 It so happens that everything that is stupid is not unconstitutional. 
-- Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia
 2006-10-23 13:25:17 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b9a3a80ddc Voltaire again. 2006-10-20 18:12:25 +00:00
Chin-San Huang
8118616431 Add a tip on "how to strip UTF-8 BOM" 
Approved by:	delphij (mentor)
 2006-10-09 04:11:34 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
7954042f27 Add a delightful typographic gem I discovered on page 143 in Edward 
Tuftes book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

The constant width font does not quite do the typeset original justice,
but it is is good enough for a fortune.
 2006-10-07 08:29:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
1a0ba4525f Correct typo. 2006-09-27 19:20:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
807ee6099c Too many good quotes flying by these days. 2006-09-17 21:36:16 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
0dc7ac73d8 visionary thoughts.. 
MFC after: 1 week
 2006-08-27 14:29:10 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
776fc0e90e Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim. 
This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.

PR:		misc/101245
Submitted by:	Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfreak org>
Tested by:	md5(1)
MFC after:	1 week
 2006-08-04 07:56:35 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b4442b2c80 And now without typo. 2006-07-10 16:53:32 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
2c2ec0b614 Add a good quote that gets used a lot in the debate about global 
warming right now:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it.
                -- Upton Sinclir
 2006-07-10 16:30:46 +00:00
Mark Murray
7c92769c19 More stale maintainer. 2006-07-09 20:26:36 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
cef2c44390 +To create quality software, the ability to say no is usually far 
+more important than the ability to say yes.
+               -- Michi Henning
+%
 2006-06-20 08:34:36 +00:00
Greg Lehey
7748dfd4c0 Burying UNIX--a quote by Rob Pike, 
Seen on The UNIX Heritage Society mailing list.
 2006-06-12 23:28:52 +00:00
Philip Paeps
0b3691a359 Add two little nuggets of wisdom I picked up at work today: 
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
  soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with
  an idea. -- The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook

  and

  Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and
  bragged about forever. -- Button at the Boston Computer Museum

I wonder why people call me a cynic. ;-)
 2006-06-12 21:02:19 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e6f719c1d2 Who am I to correct the native speakers... anyway, s/council/counsel/ 
Noted by: des
 2006-06-12 13:44:17 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
2a01134cc9 Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason 
given proper legal council.

- Alfred Perlstein
 2006-06-12 07:56:33 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
fd6f84b1df Layers are for cakes, not for software. 
-- Bart Smaalders

From Performance Anti-patterns. ACM Queue 4(1):44-50. February 2006.
(Author confirmed via email that the quote is his own).
 2006-05-28 06:16:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9c7560167d In our system there's no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme 
Court decision and violent revolution.
                -- Al Gore (New York Magazine, May 29 2006)
 2006-05-25 11:21:40 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e267a10bc3 To save you all the trouble with CVSWEB: 
Peter Fellgett's wildcard recipe:
       Into a clean dish, place the dry ingredients and add the
       liquids until the right consistency is obtained. Turn out
       into suitable containers and cook until done.
 2006-05-17 11:00:49 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
63654e38ab Go figure this error... 
Submitted by: Thomas Beha
 2006-05-09 08:28:16 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
148baf2e02 Add attribution: the quote comes from Perlis's Paradigms of AI Programming 
p. 348.  See http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
 2006-04-24 12:13:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
a8b9bc3be4 Remove a corrupted fortune ending in line noise. Even googling did not 
turn up a non-corrupted version, else I would have restored it.
(No, it's not the one that uses line noise intentionally.)
 2006-04-17 12:14:46 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
26ca704dbd o s/you health/your health/. 
PR:		conf/95810
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson
 2006-04-15 17:07:32 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
1107d0af30 1) Fix hang at the end of line buffer (PR 95715) 
2) Localize

PR:             95715
Submitted by:   Li-Lun Wang <llwang@infor.org> (slightly edited by me)
 2006-04-14 17:32:27 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
e1fe3dba5c Reimplementation of world/kernel build options. For details, see: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061725.html

The src.conf(5) manpage is to follow in a few days.

Brought to you by:	imp, jhb, kris, phk, ru (all bugs are mine)
 2006-03-17 18:54:44 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
6362a01f31 Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank. 
MFC after: 1 month
 2006-02-19 21:46:29 +00:00
Greg Lehey
cddfe5e9f6 Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem. 
Submitted by: Mårten Mickos
 2006-02-16 09:30:12 +00:00
Greg Lehey
8f2df498c8 Clarify time frame of jkh quote. 2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b28acf1ca5 Add wisdom from jkh. 2006-01-31 21:41:32 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
03b20b4ab1 Never do programs contain so few bugs as when no debugging tools 
are available.
                -- Niklaus Wirth

Pointed by: Panagiotis Louridas
 2006-01-28 09:19:20 +00:00
Colin Percival
6b9d644495 Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by 
system calls.
 2006-01-27 21:06:19 +00:00
Matteo Riondato
f58efa8625 Remove some duplicated entries 
PR:		conf/81924
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Approved by:	philip (mentor)
MFC after:	3 days
 2006-01-21 14:16:01 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
bb3020ee66 Correct some typos. 2005-12-26 16:09:58 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e2f9880300 We will not be responsible for damage to equipment, your ego, county wide 
power outages, spontaneously generated mini (or larger) black holes,
planetary disruptions, or personal injury or worse that may result from the
use of this material.
                -- taken from Samuel M. Goldwasser's
                   Sam's Strobe FAQ Notes on the Troubleshooting
                   and Repair of Electronic Flash Units and Strobe Lights
 2005-12-25 23:29:59 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
aefc1eb332 "A life lived in fear is a life half lived" 2005-12-24 17:55:33 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
8af06aba63 Add missing John Gilmore quote. 2005-12-12 15:47:33 +00:00
Doug Barton
dbc1cd4c36 Canonify, correct, and add citations related to Douglas Adams' work. 
Correct a quotation from Hitchhiker's.
 2005-12-05 06:47:23 +00:00
Wes Peters
e1b1e0baee Add another 'best quote about XML evar!' courtesy Pav Lucistnik (pav@) 2005-12-01 04:28:07 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
b099d1e351 correct typo 2005-11-23 09:00:35 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
1fbc4b9d85 add witty remark about serious thought. 
MFC after: 2 days
 2005-11-21 21:42:43 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6d8200ff0c Add /dev/speaker support to amd64. 
The following repo-copies were made (by Mark Murray):

sys/i386/isa/spkr.c -> sys/dev/speaker/spkr.c
sys/i386/include/speaker.h -> sys/dev/speaker/speaker.h
share/man/man4/man4.i386/spkr.4 -> share/man/man4/spkr.4
 2005-11-11 09:57:32 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
4450c2b741 Fix typo 2005-10-19 06:37:39 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
500ef691f8 Bruce Schneier is underrepresented in the fortune file. 2005-10-18 20:37:44 +00:00
Philip Paeps
170c211c42 Add a valuable piece of Usenet advice about storing passwords. :-) 
Obtained from:	jpd on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
 2005-10-17 14:27:37 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
4c163f4c32 Nuke duplicates found via fuzzy logic: 
- typos
- different spelling, punctuation, whitespace
- phonetically similar names
- words rearranged ("was once" vs "once was" etc)

If a limerick appeared as a single one and as part of a
double or triple, the singleton was removed.

With a little help from: sort limerick|uniq -d
This still turns up 20 lines being repeated, but the respective
limericks are sufficiently unique to leave them in (i.e. most differ
in at least two lines).

Nuke spaces in front of colons while I'm here.
 2005-09-28 18:18:29 +00:00
Kirill Ponomarev
099f27bbe8 Whitespaces cleanup. 
PR:		conf/81926
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury dot york dot ac dot uk>
 2005-09-23 12:15:52 +00:00
Doug Barton
86926e9850 Remove a fortune that is duplicated verbatim in fortunes2-o 2005-09-21 19:04:10 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
bbef66a9ae Remove a duplicate and fix a typo. 2005-09-10 08:27:07 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e37345c1c6 Notable quote by Theodore Roosevelt. 
MFC after: 3 days
 2005-09-06 14:59:55 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
0a710f3b71 Punctuation corrections. 2005-08-30 16:33:39 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
73dcba4b4b About life 2005-08-24 17:45:09 +00:00
Greg Lehey
2fa636f5fe Add relationship between offence and beer. 
Submitted by: philip
 2005-08-22 06:03:40 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
7cd5160a0b -- storage engineer on the virtues of FC-AL 2005-08-19 17:29:43 +00:00
Murray Stokely
1d449dce78 Move the "yiddish cooking has killed more jews than Hitler" quote back 
to the offensive file.

The other Hitler quotes/references stay in the unoffensive file, as
they offer more historical perspective than this one.

Approved by:	core
 2005-08-19 16:23:01 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
2ab7d9960b wisdom about 'beachhead' 2005-08-15 18:15:19 +00:00
Wes Peters
40adebe8e5 Add the best quote evar! about XML. 2005-08-14 03:49:32 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9ce79b6c70 Be a nice community member and honor the request for backout after 
stirring the hornet's nest. This issue will be resolved by core.
 2005-08-10 17:18:07 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
4e30e04c4d Move the Hitler quotes and some references to him to the "offensive" file. 
I did not bother to sort them all. If you have a script, feel free.
 2005-08-08 19:58:26 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
e818716b66 While I find the Hitler quotes extremely questionable, I'm enough 
of a pedant to properly spell the monster's first name.
 2005-08-08 18:38:30 +00:00
Kirill Ponomarev
b039a026d7 Fix locations of some links. 
Word smithing.

PR:		conf/81923
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin dot atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk>
 2005-08-06 18:13:30 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
f92c1adc15 My change, namely srandomdev() addition, was backed out even without 
discussing with me, and I obviously disagree seeing that afterwards
(srandomdev() back out not fix any thing, it can only mask the problem).

So, back out the back out and return srandomdev().

People who have problems with repeated quotes should use -D fortune
option for debugging to see is the problem in (1) /dev/random initialization
or in (2) fortune code itself.

I will be glad to help, but I can't reproduce repeated quote situation
on my machine.

In either case found, (1) or (2) should be fixed instead of removing
srandomdev().
 2005-07-23 18:24:47 +00:00
Greg Lehey
8af732d13c Use a random number to seed the random number generator. Goodby, Rush 
Limbaugh.

This should have already worked properly if random(4) has been
initialized correctly, but it seems that this is frequently not the
case.  Instead, use the microsecond part of the current time as the
seed.
 2005-07-23 01:46:50 +00:00
John Baldwin
59c2bcbae9 Correct an error in the previous revision. RAND_MAX is the maximum value 
for rand(3), not random(3).  random(3) is defined to return values between
0 and 2^31-1, so add a local RANDOM_MAX constant to this file that is
defined as 2^31-1 and use that in place of RAND_MAX.

Reviewed by:	bde
Approved by:	re (dwhite)
MFC after:	1 week
 2005-06-22 15:24:00 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6dded714b5 Snoopy in quality of life. 2005-06-10 08:58:44 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
73a1c67d03 Fix markup nits. 2005-06-07 21:43:16 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
bc48d6e6c9 Add Farnsworth support to morse(6). 
(For those interested: this is intented to extend the space between
characters to help people learning morse code by giving the brain some
extra time for acoustical pattern recognition.)

Note: I slightly cleaned up the submitted patch for minor stylistic
issues, and changed the default for the new -c option to be identical
to -w.

Submitted by:	"Stephen P. Cravey" <cravey@gotbrains.org> N5UUU
MFC after:	2 weeks
PR:		bin/81831
 2005-06-07 19:01:41 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
41fa5b81d2 When operating the diopter adjustment knob with your eye to the view- 
finder, be careful not to put your fingers or fingernails in your eye.
                -- found in the users manual of the Nikon D2x camera,
                   a camera for professional photographers
%
 2005-06-06 15:43:00 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
98500a3693 Hand it to spaff, he knows how to say it: 
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging
an armoured car to deliver credit card information from someone
living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
		-- Gene Spafford, Purdue University.
 2005-05-29 19:29:19 +00:00
John Baldwin
b0a7bd8e88 Fix for 64-bit platforms. random() returns values between 0 and RAND_MAX, 
and RAND_MAX != LONG_MAX on 64-bit platforms.

PR:		amd64/81279
Submitted by:	Vivek Khera vivek at khera dot org
Submitted by:	Adriaan de Groot groot at kde dot org
MFC after:	1 week
 2005-05-27 15:29:01 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e1f74f27c1 Remove duplicate and attribute Weinbergs second law to the right weinberg. 2005-05-13 15:51:56 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
4f2795ff0e Nuke a corrupted duplicate. 
Some white space and punctuation fixes.
 2005-05-07 17:56:50 +00:00
Stefan Farfeleder
b484917d53 Make caesar and pom WARNS 6 clean. While there, use prototypes everywhere. 
PR:	62456
 2005-05-01 19:34:22 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
c770569c74 s/which/witch 2005-04-24 15:31:11 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
d5f93c9179 Enforce style.Makefile(5). 
Glanced at by:	ru (some time ago).
 2005-04-22 18:57:32 +00:00
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
Ruslan Ermilov
47d7e8a96f Fixed style of DPADD and LDADD assignments as per style.Makefile(5). 2004-02-05 22:44:25 +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
d06b3f6b2a Add a '-l' option suitable for use with /dev/led/* lamps. 2003-11-03 11:05:43 +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