Jens Schweikhardt
d64ada501a
Fix typos, mostly s/ an / a / where appropriate and a few s/an/and/
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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MFC after: 42 days
2002-09-04 23:28:35 +00:00
David Malone
a5fe067b05
Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.
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PR: 7434
2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
a2c4d39d54
Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
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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.
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PR: 40539
Submitted by: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
2002-07-14 22:50:12 +00:00
David Malone
ffaa6f7c38
Fix a typo.
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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
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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.
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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
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the same quote.
2002-05-15 04:35:27 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
bff11a8c74
s/-300K/~300K/
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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
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of things most hackers take for granted.
2002-04-29 06:26:12 +00:00
Juli Mallett
b2d9070d05
Add one more here.
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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
Juli Mallett
d6eff954b4
Spell out the name of Hunter S. Thompson.
2002-04-29 01:38:43 +00:00
Juli Mallett
e7e84ede9c
Sort one, remove some dupes.
2002-04-29 01:22:50 +00:00
Juli Mallett
6e769de197
Add something I found amusing when overheard, and a paraphrasal of it.
2002-04-29 01:05:23 +00:00
Doug Barton
c1ca1eec09
Move the Rush Limbaugh fortunes to the offensive file, right after the
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Anti-Reagan section. :) Apparently, people find opinions contrary to
their own to be offensive.
2002-04-29 00:41:55 +00:00
Doug Barton
3028cb907b
Sort according to ../tools/do_sort
2002-04-29 00:33:30 +00:00
Doug Barton
c1652fa4a1
* Add a quote about the differences between human and machine
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understanding from Ellen Ullman.
* Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering
of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script.
2002-04-28 23:34:25 +00:00
Doug Barton
b564d8acf1
* Add $FreeBSD$ to limerick and zippy
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* Delete trailing white space in all its forms. In addition to being
bad style in general, it also causes formatting, and other problems
for various third party items (like xscreensaver) which use fortunes
for their own purposes.
2002-04-28 21:59:07 +00:00
Juli Mallett
3ee16cca88
Kill one version of a limerick here.
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Approved by: The usual suspects on that IRC channel.
2002-04-28 21:16:32 +00:00
Juli Mallett
382f76926f
Kill some duplicates.
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Kill an incorrectly duplicated Einstein limerick (thanks phk!)
2002-04-28 21:03:26 +00:00
Juli Mallett
4fa6dc65ed
Kill one exact duplicate of a Hunter S. Thompson quote. Put on peril-sensitive
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sunglasses for great evil, too.
2002-04-27 06:14:32 +00:00
Juli Mallett
8b3a5378a0
Death to duplicate fortunes.
2002-04-27 05:46:13 +00:00
Ceri Davies
bc219a1c8b
There is no host called new.bbc.co.uk - fix url.
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Reviewed by: jkh
Approved by: jkh, murray
MFC after: 3 days
2002-04-26 10:58:06 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
94223b38e8
Sort.
2002-04-25 19:31:43 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
cdc811cfca
Spell Fred Brooks's name right.
2002-04-25 19:27:40 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
b84cde50fc
Resort and suppress dupes.
2002-04-25 19:12:30 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
3cfabe1aef
Add a few more aphorisms.
2002-04-25 18:53:41 +00:00