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932 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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