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.
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. ;-)
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.
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
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
- 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.
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
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().
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.
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
(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
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
%
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.
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
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
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
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.
