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941 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
philip
3b33e7a4f8 Add Wise Words from Colin on irregular verbs and code quality. :-)
Submitted by:	cperciva
2007-01-11 15:19:53 +00:00
dougb
e8188b5da1 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
dougb
04d777c063 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
grog
a88b552dfd Wisdom of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan.
Submitted by: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
2006-12-13 00:33:39 +00:00
maxim
86ce72fe0a 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
b12b6ca022 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
keramida
5d8789ffbe Squash a typo.
Submitted by:	Miltiadis Margaronis <mmargaron@gmail.com>
2006-10-30 12:01:57 +00:00
phk
b635902443 It so happens that everything that is stupid is not unconstitutional.
-- Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia
2006-10-23 13:25:17 +00:00
phk
6efba551ce Voltaire again. 2006-10-20 18:12:25 +00:00
chinsan
f0c87a1aba Add a tip on "how to strip UTF-8 BOM"
Approved by:	delphij (mentor)
2006-10-09 04:11:34 +00:00
phk
c7ea6e67a1 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
schweikh
28bd6c8699 Correct typo. 2006-09-27 19:20:43 +00:00
phk
13a720a4b7 Too many good quotes flying by these days. 2006-09-17 21:36:16 +00:00
wilko
28c96423b2 visionary thoughts..
MFC after: 1 week
2006-08-27 14:29:10 +00:00
yar
209e4786e7 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
phk
6139cbea69 And now without typo. 2006-07-10 16:53:32 +00:00
phk
dceeb25886 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
markm
8edb3edf3a More stale maintainer. 2006-07-09 20:26:36 +00:00
phk
664c65a659 +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
grog
bc433053d0 Burying UNIX--a quote by Rob Pike,
Seen on The UNIX Heritage Society mailing list.
2006-06-12 23:28:52 +00:00
philip
716b0c76f3 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
f0d8cb5d0d Who am I to correct the native speakers... anyway, s/council/counsel/
Noted by: des
2006-06-12 13:44:17 +00:00
wilko
6ede61a908 Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason
given proper legal council.

- Alfred Perlstein
2006-06-12 07:56:33 +00:00
dds
99d1c6dae6 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
phk
deb189a7f1 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
phk
66026e8c8b 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
4ec74550a2 Go figure this error...
Submitted by: Thomas Beha
2006-05-09 08:28:16 +00:00
dds
aa8d2024b9 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
schweikh
459f95e73c 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
fa23d639eb o s/you health/your health/.
PR:		conf/95810
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson
2006-04-15 17:07:32 +00:00
ache
4997b369b9 1) Fix hang at the end of line buffer (PR 95715)
2) Localize

PR:             95715
Submitted by:   Li-Lun Wang <llwang@infor.org> (slightly edited by me)
2006-04-14 17:32:27 +00:00
ru
388e590f95 Reimplementation of world/kernel build options. For details, see:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061725.html

The src.conf(5) manpage is to follow in a few days.

Brought to you by:	imp, jhb, kris, phk, ru (all bugs are mine)
2006-03-17 18:54:44 +00:00
wilko
35856d05d2 Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank.
MFC after: 1 month
2006-02-19 21:46:29 +00:00
grog
98d9669e85 Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem.
Submitted by: Mårten Mickos
2006-02-16 09:30:12 +00:00
grog
b8874ce616 Clarify time frame of jkh quote. 2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
grog
72d0b1b091 Add wisdom from jkh. 2006-01-31 21:41:32 +00:00
dds
6ea6067b3e 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
cperciva
219b28b1e3 Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by
system calls.
2006-01-27 21:06:19 +00:00
matteo
e660c2ac95 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
schweikh
758de8f2ef Correct some typos. 2005-12-26 16:09:58 +00:00
wilko
c5fcfaa6d9 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
130f918f03 "A life lived in fear is a life half lived" 2005-12-24 17:55:33 +00:00
dds
101ce2716d Add missing John Gilmore quote. 2005-12-12 15:47:33 +00:00
dougb
0ceccd5c73 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
b30ab4a9e9 Add another 'best quote about XML evar!' courtesy Pav Lucistnik (pav@) 2005-12-01 04:28:07 +00:00
wilko
e0572c0094 correct typo 2005-11-23 09:00:35 +00:00
wilko
e37baf09aa add witty remark about serious thought.
MFC after: 2 days
2005-11-21 21:42:43 +00:00
ru
61c0ca0abb Add /dev/speaker support to amd64.
The following repo-copies were made (by Mark Murray):

sys/i386/isa/spkr.c -> sys/dev/speaker/spkr.c
sys/i386/include/speaker.h -> sys/dev/speaker/speaker.h
share/man/man4/man4.i386/spkr.4 -> share/man/man4/spkr.4
2005-11-11 09:57:32 +00:00
phk
899db1aa12 Fix typo 2005-10-19 06:37:39 +00:00
phk
dd29d22ebf Bruce Schneier is underrepresented in the fortune file. 2005-10-18 20:37:44 +00:00