Commit Graph

411 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
yar
7d3d18d907 Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics. 2005-03-07 06:05:14 +00:00
phk
fb064b21bb Another good Dijkstra quote. 2005-03-04 09:47:22 +00:00
phk
1f5c20773e Add missing quote. 2005-03-03 18:32:50 +00:00
phk
f9eb25ee6d Wisdom from 1972. 2005-03-03 18:07:23 +00:00
yar
ada215ee45 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
yar
74b299286f 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
ru
0b408ef0dc Fixed warnings and bump WARNS to 6. 2005-02-23 20:59:03 +00:00
ru
327b7b9ca4 Bump WARNS to 6. 2005-02-23 20:42:47 +00:00
ru
9dda858476 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
ru
6b6b8c04f6 Expand contractions. 2005-02-13 23:45:54 +00:00
ru
1541af42f1 Expand *n't contractions. 2005-02-13 22:25:33 +00:00
ru
cd385f1157 Sync program's usage() with manpage's SYNOPSIS. 2005-02-09 18:22:15 +00:00
ru
34796900fc Keep only one style of Pittsburgh driver's tests.
Noticed by:	Pawel Worach
2005-02-08 10:42:22 +00:00
ru
6b61b76573 An aggressive little script I used to trim out duplicate fortunes. 2005-02-07 21:15:16 +00:00
ru
a75ee2a221 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
schweikh
97c405701b s/worman/woman/ 2005-02-03 22:48:29 +00:00
ru
c6f5812d65 Ignore consonants, and remove more duplicates. 2005-02-03 10:54:07 +00:00
ru
1bd82eeb1a Removed more duplicates (forgot to ignore underscore). 2005-02-03 09:44:30 +00:00
ru
e410ad5b88 Keep the fortune above this.
Reviewed by:	sheldonh
2005-02-03 09:28:45 +00:00
ru
b6d7ee4192 Remove more duplicates. 2005-02-03 09:27:01 +00:00
ru
abc26f1187 Ignore vowels, and remove more duplicates, mostly due to typos. 2005-02-03 09:13:02 +00:00
des
9341db929e Trim some obnoxious warlording. 2005-02-03 08:47:14 +00:00
ru
08e94789ea 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
ru
bd95b6c7e0 Merged fortunes with fortunes2.
Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).
2005-02-03 00:20:37 +00:00
ru
4bfd722d37 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
ru
e5d427bd13 Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2. 2005-02-02 10:24:11 +00:00
ru
f491448674 Ignore case and all non-word characters, and remove more duplicates. 2005-02-01 16:34:38 +00:00
pav
e4c54aac83 - Add few lines from my personal signature file
Suggested by:	Florent Thoumie
Approved by:	mux
2005-02-01 16:22:44 +00:00
smkelly
452c78e080 Remove another duplicate fortune. 2005-02-01 15:48:48 +00:00
ru
1b0f577b0d Removed full duplicates that only differ in amount of whitespace
and line breaks.
2005-02-01 15:15:33 +00:00
des
7905572ab1 Remove a duplicate. 2005-02-01 14:10:41 +00:00
wilko
c5c34ae422 s/principals/principles/
Fortune was duplicated, remove one copy.
2005-01-22 20:00:50 +00:00
grog
48aecee0a9 Add comment on current state of hardware documentation.
Submitted by: philip
2005-01-19 23:34:25 +00:00
phk
8e249383f9 Remove committer-specific entry. 2005-01-18 11:52:19 +00:00
ru
5fca3d26af Sort sections. 2005-01-18 08:57:18 +00:00
phk
9d81809b59 Minor bit of advice. 2005-01-17 10:06:12 +00:00
dougb
eabaebb00d 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
schweikh
1271aa3500 Correct two typos in almost identical fortunes. 2005-01-10 12:03:32 +00:00
josef
758ffb0989 There is a better way to find out whether a port is installed or not. 2005-01-03 14:17:23 +00:00
schweikh
137fcb142b Correct two typos; remove a duplicate. 2004-12-30 12:18:30 +00:00
wilko
dd331cd3f0 "3 hands" 2004-12-24 12:59:26 +00:00
ru
cec60429bb Start the dreaded NOFOO -> NO_FOO conversion.
OK'ed by:	core
2004-12-21 08:47:35 +00:00
dds
d433895d19 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
dds
d2e24b3cd0 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
schweikh
b0d5a70a33 s/Here about/Hear about/ and sort accordingly. 2004-11-12 10:15:43 +00:00
wilko
26ee4cc617 Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
2004-10-27 20:28:56 +00:00
ru
5db2b9d5b3 For variables that are only checked with defined(), don't provide
any fake value.
2004-10-24 15:33:08 +00:00
phk
04d44d95de Improve accuracy of last addition, as best Google advices me. 2004-10-22 19:59:37 +00:00
phk
a13f06ffb3 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
wilko
2411b47f68 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