wollman
49ccb4d057
Add a quote from Bob Schieffer's recent book about freedom of the press.
2003-02-23 06:14:04 +00:00
ceri
23b3d3e001
"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
fanf
0768175e02
Add Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming.
2003-02-18 20:34:13 +00:00
schweikh
a787a2ce23
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
robert
cf513b76e7
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
bebc78d3e1
Add Warner Losh quote.
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Submitted by: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
2003-02-11 21:38:02 +00:00
mike
be6f69b501
Immortalize a Robert Watson quote.
2003-02-10 17:34:32 +00:00
fanf
9d04c4bbe7
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
schweikh
4c7a08b14a
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
schweikh
d3367c5f5d
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
schweikh
86f7487fb6
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
schweikh
8275a80403
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
856dc69260
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
dcs
5cbd8d2e81
Add gerrold.limerick to the building process.
2002-11-10 23:41:01 +00:00
dcs
b8f6d0dd7f
Finished at last.
2002-11-10 23:37:25 +00:00
dcs
e53748a0c6
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
fanf
c98f436d67
The future's bright: the future's Ballard...
2002-10-30 01:00:48 +00:00
phk
e1248d5245
Add a fortune for people who have read their classics.
2002-10-29 10:16:06 +00:00
tom
e5e93f10fa
Minor grammatical correction
2002-10-20 13:41:44 +00:00
blackend
dcc30834b3
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
fanf
6221a0f65e
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
schweikh
7db6eff0eb
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
schweikh
fb29191f96
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
tg
bf5dfd3bb3
Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate
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Bertrand Russell quotations.
2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
jmallett
228b93ce82
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
dwmalone
31d77eaa65
Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.
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PR: 7434
2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
fanf
1f1f9bd75b
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
fanf
42ecfecabf
Re-sort.
2002-08-09 19:54:11 +00:00
fanf
faccc3c40c
Remove spurious quotes.
2002-08-09 19:31:27 +00:00
fanf
c3b1de26ed
Correctly sort previous addition.
2002-08-09 19:30:20 +00:00
fanf
89c3e5c564
Some more advice from Dijkstra.
2002-08-09 19:08:02 +00:00
fanf
563b40203b
Fix a couple of typos in a Dijkstra quote.
2002-08-09 19:00:10 +00:00
dwmalone
e00a16ef8c
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
dwmalone
44dbe3e8f4
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
78ca5fd896
Fix whitespace botch in previous commit.
2002-07-09 06:47:29 +00:00
peter
6eb4916dee
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
mp
8a4e84dbb3
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
wollman
45d5a82bf1
Add used include of <stdlib.h>, copying style bugs from adjacent lines.
2002-05-30 21:28:58 +00:00
dougb
00266d9f51
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
mph
2790da8d06
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
dougb
fe94f05da8
More ispell fun
2002-04-30 10:13:42 +00:00
dougb
08a4243733
Fix a few more of my typos, a few others I noticed, and some ispell help.
2002-04-30 08:08:31 +00:00
sheldonh
984aaf7fe5
Correct typo (is -> us).
2002-04-30 07:36:44 +00:00
jmallett
50116a633c
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
jmallett
2c66f4a2cd
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
jmallett
9f7f7d8d6e
Remove a Kurt Vonnegut quote that appears in fortunes.
2002-04-29 01:44:16 +00:00
jmallett
6a589dc6a3
Spell out the name of Hunter S. Thompson.
2002-04-29 01:38:43 +00:00
jmallett
491ba39875
Sort one, remove some dupes.
2002-04-29 01:22:50 +00:00
jmallett
dc73f6bb73
Add something I found amusing when overheard, and a paraphrasal of it.
2002-04-29 01:05:23 +00:00
dougb
862db1562f
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