Commit Graph

891 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
philip
971881d853 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
schweikh
cb53faafbb 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
krion
078b3f89c7 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
dougb
92ca7fac06 Remove a fortune that is duplicated verbatim in fortunes2-o 2005-09-21 19:04:10 +00:00
schweikh
3602619d05 Remove a duplicate and fix a typo. 2005-09-10 08:27:07 +00:00
wilko
eaaaa47e6a Notable quote by Theodore Roosevelt.
MFC after: 3 days
2005-09-06 14:59:55 +00:00
schweikh
f7ffe965a1 Punctuation corrections. 2005-08-30 16:33:39 +00:00
wilko
ca93f2e965 About life 2005-08-24 17:45:09 +00:00
grog
61c0c16143 Add relationship between offence and beer.
Submitted by: philip
2005-08-22 06:03:40 +00:00
wilko
8c74153b9c -- storage engineer on the virtues of FC-AL 2005-08-19 17:29:43 +00:00
murray
7052a987d7 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
4203da7e61 wisdom about 'beachhead' 2005-08-15 18:15:19 +00:00
wes
40bd0121f5 Add the best quote evar! about XML. 2005-08-14 03:49:32 +00:00
schweikh
a70b60a035 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
schweikh
860259d8d5 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
schweikh
6781db2c45 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
krion
0c4a5c08a5 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
ache
ebe5e23d16 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
grog
6d42881fd8 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
jhb
6c5bcb1fd2 Correct an error in the previous revision. RAND_MAX is the maximum value
for rand(3), not random(3).  random(3) is defined to return values between
0 and 2^31-1, so add a local RANDOM_MAX constant to this file that is
defined as 2^31-1 and use that in place of RAND_MAX.

Reviewed by:	bde
Approved by:	re (dwhite)
MFC after:	1 week
2005-06-22 15:24:00 +00:00
phk
aaea0db099 Snoopy in quality of life. 2005-06-10 08:58:44 +00:00
ru
c951593ab8 Fix markup nits. 2005-06-07 21:43:16 +00:00
joerg
999d3f2f2a Add Farnsworth support to morse(6).
(For those interested: this is intented to extend the space between
characters to help people learning morse code by giving the brain some
extra time for acoustical pattern recognition.)

Note: I slightly cleaned up the submitted patch for minor stylistic
issues, and changed the default for the new -c option to be identical
to -w.

Submitted by:	"Stephen P. Cravey" <cravey@gotbrains.org> N5UUU
MFC after:	2 weeks
PR:		bin/81831
2005-06-07 19:01:41 +00:00
wilko
0f06e53c5f 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
phk
70a0447f0b 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
jhb
8af0c36809 Fix for 64-bit platforms. random() returns values between 0 and RAND_MAX,
and RAND_MAX != LONG_MAX on 64-bit platforms.

PR:		amd64/81279
Submitted by:	Vivek Khera vivek at khera dot org
Submitted by:	Adriaan de Groot groot at kde dot org
MFC after:	1 week
2005-05-27 15:29:01 +00:00
phk
1a9b6b826f Remove duplicate and attribute Weinbergs second law to the right weinberg. 2005-05-13 15:51:56 +00:00
schweikh
ad38844990 Nuke a corrupted duplicate.
Some white space and punctuation fixes.
2005-05-07 17:56:50 +00:00
stefanf
36030d1508 Make caesar and pom WARNS 6 clean. While there, use prototypes everywhere.
PR:	62456
2005-05-01 19:34:22 +00:00
schweikh
f09f100e44 s/which/witch 2005-04-24 15:31:11 +00:00
trhodes
a9041ad05e Enforce style.Makefile(5).
Glanced at by:	ru (some time ago).
2005-04-22 18:57:32 +00:00
phk
f48ecbb639 Data is not information;
Information is not knowledge;
	Knowledge is not wisdom
			-- Gary Flake
2005-04-13 06:11:49 +00:00
schweikh
c699ae098b s/self-distruction/self-destruction 2005-04-10 10:53:26 +00:00
phk
831661f9ab 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
6213f21b7b 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
48e4a931e3 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
brueffer
ee036d3944 Remove dublicate entries and correct apostrophe abuse.
Submitted by:	Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
2005-03-13 13:20:07 +00:00
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