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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
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
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
phk
aaea0db099 Snoopy in quality of life. 2005-06-10 08:58:44 +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
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
schweikh
f09f100e44 s/which/witch 2005-04-24 15:31:11 +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
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
blackend
35b7b725a8 Fix make search entries. 
PR:		docs/70899
Submitted by:	Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
 2004-08-24 11:30:28 +00:00
blackend
894378ef71 s/the on/on the/ 
PR:		misc/70842
Submitted by:	Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
 2004-08-23 11:00:20 +00:00
des
ca124b900b Immortalize the words of a -current reader. 2004-08-20 13:39:28 +00:00
rwatson
59e82281fe Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrand 
Russell.
 2004-08-15 19:24:17 +00:00
schweikh
138982e99c Correct grammo. 2004-08-14 06:29:17 +00:00
des
04b2cac222 The name of the landlord in Shaw's _The Man of Destiny_ is Giuseppe (not 
Guiseppe) Gandi.

Submitted by:	Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com>
MFC after:	3 days
 2004-07-26 21:18:58 +00:00
le
3654de90d4 Make this WARNS=3 clean. 
PR:            bin/38931
Submitted by:  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
 2004-07-23 11:36:35 +00:00
le
c05d3eafae Fix typos. 
PR:            misc/67586
Submitted by:  Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net>
 2004-07-20 08:32:42 +00:00
le
c844209ee5 Fix whitespace and punctuation. 
PR:            misc/49967
Submitted by:  Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
 2004-07-20 08:28:28 +00:00
le
a93503b196 Remove duplicate fortunes and fix some typos. 
PR:            misc/45839
Submitted by:  Philipp Mergenthaler
               <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
 2004-07-20 08:19:51 +00:00
ru
debcc07b3a Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 21:16:38 +00:00
ru
6f7eb14978 mdoc(7): Correct the type of the display. 2004-07-02 21:15:48 +00:00
wollman
b4fb293e24 Add a Nicollism. 2004-06-24 03:08:44 +00:00
phk
45cfffa8ac Discontinue use of old libcompat regexp routines. 2004-06-21 16:07:30 +00:00
schweikh
dad6e10cd3 Correct assorted typos and grammos. 2004-06-10 21:03:34 +00:00
des
92c9a57d01 Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman. 2004-06-01 09:45:16 +00:00
dougb
e2c87d8b84 Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entry 
by using the text from the Villard Books edition (1989, pages 6 through
8) and formatting to fit in 72 columns.
 2004-06-01 05:00:46 +00:00
dougb
e021509ce5 * Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace) 
* Spell out some names that were pointlessly abbreviated
* Remove a couple of incidental duplicates
* Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was added to his
name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore it's not usually punctuated.
* Format a couple of actual fortunes to fit into 72 columns
 2004-06-01 04:32:11 +00:00
dougb
d8ee4c34cb Remove duplicates of the "wherever you go, there you are" fortune, 
quote directly from the movie, and give a better attribution (with
correct spelling) for Buckaroo Banzai.
 2004-06-01 00:16:32 +00:00
wollman
872786a58d Definition of recursion. 2004-05-25 19:15:02 +00:00
schweikh
b482f392a5 Added forgotten quotes for citations. 2004-05-20 08:15:58 +00:00
fanf
9259fe34cc I *knew* it would be a bad idea to touch the fortunes. *sigh* 
Submitted by:	Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to:	me, again
 2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
fanf
7e021c2452 Pedantry. 
Submitted by:	njl@
 2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
fanf
513cf0367d On the signs of network congestion. 
Submitted by:	Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
 2004-05-11 10:00:14 +00:00
fanf
8169074470 Re-sort 2004-05-10 23:02:07 +00:00
fanf
14ba243beb Moore's law vs. Nethack 
Submitted by:   Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
 2004-05-10 23:00:26 +00:00
cperciva
91483de01f Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong. 2004-04-29 06:14:00 +00:00
smkelly
d78a9de690 Add a new fortune from petef. 
Obtained from: petef
 2004-04-29 04:36:36 +00:00
imp
45c4ca11d3 Add jerk city commentary on C++. 2004-04-27 22:32:02 +00:00
grog
4a6438f25a Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages. 2004-04-21 22:39:46 +00:00
ceri
aef0c8e553 Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele. 
"Ukulele" is the canonical term, with "ukelele" being a derivation.
Also there is some evidence that the original appearance of the quote
had the spelling "ukulele", although anyone who has a copy of Esquire
from March 1967 is welcome to prove me wrong.

PR:		bin/65626
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
 2004-04-20 19:20:17 +00:00
grog
fd4191a431 Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering. 2004-03-22 05:02:01 +00:00
cperciva
dba5418199 Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR has 
a patch to mention portupgrade in freebsd-tips as well; I'm not
sure if that belongs here, so I'll leave it for someone else.

PR:		misc/37073
Submitted by:	Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Approved by:	rwatson (mentor)
 2004-02-18 05:18:27 +00:00
wes
a763f85517 Too good to miss. 
Wisdumb by:	Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
 2004-02-09 18:45:25 +00:00
schweikh
996a053df7 "The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling. 
Spotted by:	grog
 2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
phk
75a46d9023 typo, duh! 2004-01-13 08:00:55 +00:00
phk
c52adee7f0 This is simply too true to not become a fortune. 
Wisdom by:	wes
 2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
blackend
4ce6889968 Add a tip on how to print a manual page. 
PR:		docs/61033
Submitted by:	mi@
 2004-01-07 19:49:12 +00:00
ceri
17cbb0b2fc Stop "fortune -l" from looping forever. 
PR:		bin/58730
Submitted by:	pak <pak@cns.utoronto.ca>
 2003-12-27 16:04:41 +00:00
schweikh
c6baaab590 Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a 
few typos.
 2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
des
560fd10b55 Use WARNS level 2 instead of setting CFLAGS explicitly to -Wall. 2003-12-07 17:34:52 +00:00
phk
4ce13c1db4 A too good Feynman quote to pass up. 2003-12-07 10:03:20 +00:00
phk
bba6b06ef4 Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection. 2003-11-12 20:08:47 +00:00
wilko
d31466d172 reformat HP eng. mgr quote 
Requested by: nate
 2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
roam
a69e97d1cc Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'. 
PR:		58909
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after:	1 week
 2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
phk
947a627bb5 Addition. 2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
fanf
4e2a8e2c7e A comment about spam and cockroaches. 
Suggested by:	dwmalone
 2003-10-16 15:25:19 +00:00
tg
c803b8b6aa Fix typo. 2003-10-15 10:25:31 +00:00
schweikh
bd52f2d8e9 Correct a typo (s/And/An/) 2003-10-12 11:37:15 +00:00
schweikh
bf3be14755 Removed "Gerat" which is a typo of "Great". 
Added FreeBSD ID.
 2003-10-08 16:49:19 +00:00
wollman
81afeec072 Retrocomputing alternate history.... 2003-10-07 15:09:19 +00:00
wilko
d8080c433b Polish last fortune. 
Suggested by: nate
 2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
wilko
3405ad9023 'Upon the release of the second version' 
Suggested that this is fortune material: rene@tunix.nl
MFC after: 2 weeks
 2003-10-06 19:34:35 +00:00
eivind
0ec2a2b19b Fix spelling/grammar errors and remove a duplicate 2003-09-13 15:46:35 +00:00
dougb
9cf6c7ed90 * Fix a duplicate "how how" 
* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
 2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
ceri
e3cf310790 Correct a grammatical error. 
PR:		misc/54967
Submitted by:	Paul A. Scott <pscott@the-frontier.org>
MFC After:	4 weeks
 2003-08-25 20:08:16 +00:00
ache
26ffc627d8 LANG->LC_ALL 
Pointed by:     ru
 2003-08-04 21:31:53 +00:00
ache
6d81d82b79 Use LANG=C before tr to be shure that ranges are correct 2003-08-04 15:31:57 +00:00
ache
c35593dd41 Rename collate_range_cmp() to stable_collate_range_cmp() to indicate 
that it is not the common variant.
Remove doubtful microoptimization there.
 2003-08-03 19:44:36 +00:00
schweikh
def68bc11e Fix a tip about how to create an empty file[1]. 
Remove tip about retired kget(8).
Fix a typo.

PR:	conf/54334
Submitted by:	Mark Huizer <xaa+sendpr@timewasters.nl>
MFC after:	3 days
 2003-08-02 20:36:28 +00:00
mux
8bcb5ee872 Remove a duplicate entry. 2003-07-25 11:14:03 +00:00
mph
e8546e1e8a Eliminate a duplicate. 2003-07-14 22:22:56 +00:00
jhb
34cf1095cb Add a quote of wpaul@ explaining the importance of including requested 
content when replying to an e-mail.
 2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
kris
2796980f7c Correct some typos. 
Submitted by:	pscott@the-frontier.org
PR:		misc/51909
MFC After:	The average lifetime of a Star Trek redshirt
 2003-07-13 03:49:43 +00:00
gsutter
1ce49745e1 Remove near-duplicate entry, keeping the better attributed one. 2003-06-19 22:52:50 +00:00