Poul-Henning Kamp
ebf3f2a194
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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",
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"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.
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Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).
2005-02-03 00:20:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
1269b8ed60
Fix bugs.
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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
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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
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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/
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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.
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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
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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.
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OK'ed by: core
2004-12-21 08:47:35 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
86e3437258
From Richard W. Hamming ``You and Your Research''
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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:
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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/
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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
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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
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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.
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PR: bin/38931
Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
2004-07-23 11:36:35 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
e231995bb9
Fix typos.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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* 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,
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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*
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Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to: me, again
2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
Tony Finch
00b1a2a12f
Pedantry.
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Submitted by: njl@
2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
c3cd9d1f90
Add Greek character encoding suport.
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MFC after: 2 weeks
2004-05-11 11:11:14 +00:00
Tony Finch
aa0bdecb75
On the signs of network congestion.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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).
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Submitted by: des
2004-02-20 13:46:39 +00:00
Tony Finch
ac5940be9d
Add some missing punctuation symbols, in particular @ which (according to
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wisdom by: wes
2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
cf8dceeb43
Add a tip on how to print a manual page.
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PR: docs/61033
Submitted by: mi@
2004-01-07 19:49:12 +00:00
Ceri Davies
5aad4fa276
Stop "fortune -l" from looping forever.
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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
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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
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Requested by: nate
2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
92797e8470
Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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Suggested by: nate
2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e95a20fe4f
'Upon the release of the second version'
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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"
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* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
Ceri Davies
994d89af83
Correct a grammatical error.
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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
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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
Andrey A. Chernov
b131d40522
Rename collate_range_cmp() to stable_collate_range_cmp() to indicate
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that it is not the common variant.
Remove doubtful microoptimization there.
2003-08-03 19:44:36 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
5ab032d6c6
Fix a tip about how to create an empty file[1].
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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
Mark Murray
ebb9f0efa8
Don't check for the existance of src/crypto/ for building items that
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may contain crypto. The days of ITAR paranoia are over, and the simple
macro tests that remain are sufficient.
2003-07-24 18:30:25 +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
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content when replying to an e-mail.
2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
8a4b3625b6
Correct some typos.
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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
Will Andrews
17527010e2
Handle 12-hour clocks properly: when the time is 00:00-00:59, adjust the
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hour to 12 so the time reads "12:00-12:59 AM".
2003-06-23 16:01:11 +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
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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.
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(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
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
54126046fd
add a NOCRYPT check alongside the NO_OPENSSL check.
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Approved by: re (scottl)
2003-05-19 15:52:50 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c8d3a56cb8
mdoc(7) police: Make SYNOPSIS match usage().
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Approved by: re (blanket)
2003-05-16 21:27:23 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
07e4e2cc98
mdoc(7) police: Added "rot13" to the NAME section.
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Approved by: re (blanket)
2003-05-16 21:26:39 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
e3c85e0226
Make the __FBSDID usage consistent
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and protect copyright[] from Gcc 3.3's whining.
2003-05-05 09:52:25 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
37087753b2
Add an option to print the time in 12-hour format.
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Submitted by: Samy Al Bahra <samy@kerneled.com>
2003-03-28 16:37:45 +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
Tim J. Robbins
954a953e8d
Explain what the rot13 script does.
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PR: 39044
2003-03-24 11:18:30 +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.
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Submitted by: Chris Wasser <cwasser@shaw.ca>
2003-03-17 20:59:50 +00:00
Greg Lehey
11b8cdf76c
Add long-term view of astronomy.
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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,
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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.
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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
Ruslan Ermilov
2bee685c4a
Fixed SYNOPSIS.
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Expanded stdin/stdout definitions.
Ordered the SEE ALSO references.
Moved some chat from the BUGS section to freebsd-chat@.
Removed ``cvs log'' material from the HISTORY section.
2003-02-23 01:44:14 +00:00
Ceri Davies
a92acc1aed
"Happiness" is a noun.
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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.
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Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door
2003-02-16 18:38:12 +00:00
Sean Chittenden
3f4b504568
flexlint rears its head as well as some style(9) fixes[1]. Fixed a
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few bugs for a few corner cases and correctly handle the case where
read(2) is read()'ing from a non-file descriptor and could get fewer
bytes back than the buffer, but it isn't EOF[2]. random(6) extensively
tested and believed to be bug free (save performance for large files).
Submitted by: mkm [1], tjr[2]
2003-02-15 10:26:10 +00:00
Robert Drehmel
571c3db70d
Remove the suggestion to try `hangman', because it does not exist
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in the base system anymore.
2003-02-15 09:11:25 +00:00
Wes Peters
24860c5a80
Add Warner Losh quote.
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Submitted by: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
2003-02-11 21:38:02 +00:00
Sean Chittenden
a3b3a1cf6c
Update random(6) to have the ability to randomize a file/stdin based
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off of lines or words. See the man page for details.
Reviewed by: markm
MFC after: 3 days
2003-02-11 19:32:18 +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
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filk that also appears in fortunes2.
2003-01-23 19:23:52 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d447a23756
s/Kank/Kang/ (the klingon)
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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,
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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/
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Add FreeBSD Id tag where missing.
2002-12-30 21:18:15 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
051bb54bd3
mdoc(7) police: Added the missing .Os call; it's not strictly
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necessary nowadays, but is documented as "required", and may
become so again in the future.
Approved by: re
2002-12-11 15:55:29 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8fea899f6b
mdoc(7) police: sweep.
2002-11-29 16:21:33 +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
Mark Murray
e9680a4d80
Remove old build glue for removed games.
2002-10-21 10:05:14 +00:00
Mark Murray
8800149214
Deorbit complete. We dont build these anymore, so into the attic they go.
2002-10-21 07:40:27 +00:00
Tom Hukins
7031dac23d
Minor grammatical correction
2002-10-20 13:41:44 +00:00
Mark Murray
dc2f663b39
Do not build the majority of the games. Remaining are the
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"utility-like" games and everyone's favourite, fortune(6).
2002-10-20 11:18:56 +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
Tony Finch
d34adef8a0
Last commit was slightly hasty: #include <string.h> is required on
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-CURRENT to be WARNS-safe (but not -STABLE for some reason)
2002-10-09 20:42:40 +00:00
Tony Finch
ad8222269e
Kill obsolete #include <memory.h> which I didn't spot earlier because
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it's still in the NetBSD version.
2002-10-09 20:30:57 +00:00
Tony Finch
bc71591d79
Mdocify and fix a load of errors dating back to the dawn of time.
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Don't mention hard limits for factor(6) since it now has bignum support.
Obtained from: NetBSD (mdoc only -- their man page is still mostly wrong)
2002-10-09 20:00:25 +00:00
Tony Finch
63f7eaa932
Factorize bignums using the Pollard Rho algorithm. The code comes
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from NetBSD, altered to retain the FreeBSD -h feature and various
stylistic improvements and avoid regressions. In the absence of
OpenSSL (and therefore bignums) the old code is used.
PR: 43831
Reviewed by: kris, markm, obrien
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
2002-10-09 19:55:04 +00:00
Tony Finch
9a171f4fc4
Style fixes to: #include ordering; use const and static; ANSI functions;
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various usage synopses; bogus and/or unnecessary casting; exit values;
use LINE_MAX instead of magic numbers; declare extern variables in a
header; add $FreeBSD$ where missing.
Reviewed by: markm, obrien
Obtained from: NetBSD | fanf
2002-10-09 19:38:55 +00:00
Juli Mallett
ce0d6fa464
As back-out requests must be followed, back out the removal of wargames(6)
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at mike@'s request.
2002-10-09 01:46:37 +00:00
Juli Mallett
3685096edb
Remove the wargames(6) novelty [and not the fun kind]:
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1) It never was very funny.
2) It was a N line shell script where N is less than
X, where X is the number of lines of the Berkeley
copyright and license.
3) I rewrote it in C with the intention of making it
more interactive, ala the movie, but never did.
4) Because it really is possible for at least some
parts of a distribution to shrink between releases.
X-No-MFC: This game will remain in RELENG_4 and previous.
X-Bikesheds-To: markm@
Approved by: The #bsdcode cabal.
Obtained from: Professor Falken
2002-10-08 20:19:26 +00:00
Juli Mallett
172043e91d
We're missing none of these games, they just aren't here.
2002-10-08 20:15:30 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
334a0d61e1
Correct the description of what fortunes get installed (by default, also the
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offensive ones). Make it clear that datfiles/Makefile needs to be edited in
case someone wants it otherwise.
PR: misc/36153
Submitted by: Nick Jennings <nick@namodn.com>
X-MFC after: 4.7 is out the door.
2002-09-24 19:00:52 +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