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Doug Barton
282d2f2136 Add some quotes from the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" 2007-12-07 22:22:35 +00:00
Doug Barton
9f5203687a Add the text of a sign that I've seen on other desks, and 
always wanted to put on mine.
 2007-12-07 22:21:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
b76be7efbf Revise the markup. 2007-11-07 12:08:03 +00:00
Edwin Groothuis
e46d677790 After discussions with grog@ (mentor): 
- When none of the directories in FORTUNE_PATH exist, abort instead
  of using the default FORTDIR.
- Little stylify changes.
- Add documentation about the FORTUNE_PATH variable.

MFC after:	1 week
 2007-11-07 01:14:28 +00:00
Edwin Groothuis
3f1d492610 Another typo in the previous commited fix. That makes four typos 
in one fortune of only 32 words. Based on that single ratio, there
are 50453 more typos in the rest of the fortunes file....

Noticed by:	Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
MFC after:	1 week
 2007-11-06 22:40:16 +00:00
Edwin Groothuis
664c060ef3 games/fortune: add FORTUNE_PATH env var, so ports of fortunes can work sanely 
This patch adds an environment variable FORTUNE_PATH, which
	works like PATH for fortune files.

PR:		bin/36867
Submitted by:	Alan Eldridge <ports@geeksrus.net>

[patch] fortune -e implementation bug

	Fix the behaviour of "-e file1 file2" to equally pick them
	instead of only picking the first one.

PR:		bin/70182
Submitted by:	Martin Kulas <coolaz@web.de>

MFC after:	1 week
Approved by:	grog (mentor)
 2007-11-06 22:03:24 +00:00
Edwin Groothuis
d21d8773c4 [patch] Fortune typos, around line 57346 of fortunes datfile 
Small typos -- saw in a fortune today that 'equipped' is
	spelled 'equpped'. Also, 'vacuum' is spelled 'vaccuum'.
	Corrected diff provided below.

PR:		misc/112049
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@speakeasy.net>
MFC after:	1 week
 2007-11-06 21:55:56 +00:00
Doug Barton
e23452dbca Correct, add or improve attributions for, and add to quotations from 
"The Wizard of Oz"

One duplicate was also removed that wasn't the right quote anyway
 2007-10-28 07:02:10 +00:00
Doug Barton
0a6f9396b3 Fix a couple of small typos, and remove a duplicate 2007-10-21 05:16:52 +00:00
Doug Barton
a956c7304b Change to the original version of the poem titled "The Guy in the Glass," 
and add the proper attribution. Also add an explanation for the Middle
English word used in the first line.
 2007-10-21 05:15:02 +00:00
Philip Paeps
26bc1aebe9 Remove duplicate. Was that a bug? :-) 2007-06-12 09:20:31 +00:00
Ceri Davies
478018f0ad Correct typo. 2007-06-06 11:12:56 +00:00
Doug Barton
2577a38eb3 Correct two small typos 2007-05-31 20:16:46 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
a6c4457396 Line wrap previous entry 
Submitted by:	des
 2007-03-30 04:31:53 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
76ddc8179b Add some more random offensive quotes. 2007-03-29 08:08:34 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
314d29caae A note from Peter Wemm about how to tell the difference between amd64 and 
ia64.
 2007-03-29 07:49:59 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
9a88eeec45 Dialogue gem from Deadwood 2007-03-29 07:40:49 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
ff75233a7a - Fix typo 
PR:		bin/110648
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@speakeasy.net>
Approved by:	keramida (mentor)
MFC after:	3 days
 2007-03-26 11:44:46 +00:00
Philip Paeps
3fdbb5f071 Add Wise Words from Colin on irregular verbs and code quality. :-) 
Submitted by:	cperciva
 2007-01-11 15:19:53 +00:00
Doug Barton
1e11060f37 More minor cleanups: 
1. Fix small typo "retorted ." -> "retorted."
2. Remove from fortunes a story that is duplicated in fortunes2-o
3. Remove from fortunes and fortunes2-o Zippy the Pinhead quotes
that are already in the zippy file.
4. ... therefore remove zippy from fortunes.sp.ok
5. Remove a duplicate in the zippy file.
 2007-01-06 22:04:46 +00:00
Doug Barton
574c45c445 Add the fortunes from the PR that were not already present. 
Delete some duplicates found while double checking the new ones,
and fix a typo.

These haven't been sorted yet, but will be in a future commit.

PR:		ports/40273
Submitted by:	Achim Patzner <ap@proxon.bnc.net>
 2006-12-30 21:54:41 +00:00
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
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
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
Poul-Henning Kamp
6dded714b5 Snoopy in quality of life. 2005-06-10 08:58:44 +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
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
Jens Schweikhardt
c770569c74 s/which/witch 2005-04-24 15:31:11 +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