Poul-Henning Kamp
c99726d396
I'm surprised this one was not here yet.
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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 Bulte
fa38f371c8
The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
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thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools. - Thucydides
2004-09-29 19:52:19 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
aaa7f2858e
Fix make search entries.
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PR: docs/70899
Submitted by: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
2004-08-24 11:30:28 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
196d7a9b0c
s/the on/on the/
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PR: misc/70842
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
2004-08-23 11:00:20 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
0f81131e63
Immortalize the words of a -current reader.
2004-08-20 13:39:28 +00:00
Robert Watson
e10d31a8f2
Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrand
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Russell.
2004-08-15 19:24:17 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
29cf807a18
Correct grammo.
2004-08-14 06:29:17 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
d453d5bc01
The name of the landlord in Shaw's _The Man of Destiny_ is Giuseppe (not
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Guiseppe) Gandi.
Submitted by: Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com>
MFC after: 3 days
2004-07-26 21:18:58 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
3e7ee83cbd
Make this WARNS=3 clean.
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PR: bin/38931
Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
2004-07-23 11:36:35 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
e231995bb9
Fix typos.
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PR: misc/67586
Submitted by: Paul A. Hoadley <paulh@logicsquad.net>
2004-07-20 08:32:42 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
2a5395ddef
Fix whitespace and punctuation.
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PR: misc/49967
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
2004-07-20 08:28:28 +00:00
Lukas Ertl
efd0e5f49e
Remove duplicate fortunes and fix some typos.
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PR: misc/45839
Submitted by: Philipp Mergenthaler
<philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
2004-07-20 08:19:51 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
248ad594ab
Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
2004-07-02 21:16:38 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a7bbcd9a7d
mdoc(7): Correct the type of the display.
2004-07-02 21:15:48 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
e60883c5a2
Add a Nicollism.
2004-06-24 03:08:44 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
07c1e2e1de
Discontinue use of old libcompat regexp routines.
2004-06-21 16:07:30 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
cad27670ff
Correct assorted typos and grammos.
2004-06-10 21:03:34 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fb86d10eff
Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman.
2004-06-01 09:45:16 +00:00
Doug Barton
f4d7361ecf
Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entry
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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
Doug Barton
afe8bb313c
* Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace)
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* 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
Doug Barton
7934cbe0d3
Remove duplicates of the "wherever you go, there you are" fortune,
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quote directly from the movie, and give a better attribution (with
correct spelling) for Buckaroo Banzai.
2004-06-01 00:16:32 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
7aab90d5f7
Definition of recursion.
2004-05-25 19:15:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
3231abbd6d
Added forgotten quotes for citations.
2004-05-20 08:15:58 +00:00
Tony Finch
a27113d965
I *knew* it would be a bad idea to touch the fortunes. *sigh*
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Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to: me, again
2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
Tony Finch
00b1a2a12f
Pedantry.
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Submitted by: njl@
2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
Tony Finch
aa0bdecb75
On the signs of network congestion.
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Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-11 10:00:14 +00:00
Tony Finch
fffbf07a36
Re-sort
2004-05-10 23:02:07 +00:00
Tony Finch
7475c308d4
Moore's law vs. Nethack
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Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-10 23:00:26 +00:00
Colin Percival
9a34ab29f0
Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong.
2004-04-29 06:14:00 +00:00
Sean Kelly
57268cd141
Add a new fortune from petef.
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Obtained from: petef
2004-04-29 04:36:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
4bb464ddb9
Add jerk city commentary on C++.
2004-04-27 22:32:02 +00:00
Greg Lehey
6a9114196c
Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages.
2004-04-21 22:39:46 +00:00
Ceri Davies
14f166b706
Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele.
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"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
Greg Lehey
b0487aaa20
Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering.
2004-03-22 05:02:01 +00:00
Colin Percival
25f718f0b7
Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR has
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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 Peters
b2cbee8f60
Too good to miss.
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Wisdumb by: Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
2004-02-09 18:45:25 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9c83887e23
"The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.
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Spotted by: grog
2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e65046462a
typo, duh!
2004-01-13 08:00:55 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b073ad98d
This is simply too true to not become a fortune.
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Wisdom by: wes
2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
cf8dceeb43
Add a tip on how to print a manual page.
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PR: docs/61033
Submitted by: mi@
2004-01-07 19:49:12 +00:00
Ceri Davies
5aad4fa276
Stop "fortune -l" from looping forever.
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PR: bin/58730
Submitted by: pak <pak@cns.utoronto.ca>
2003-12-27 16:04:41 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d910ed771d
Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
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few typos.
2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
76e762998c
Use WARNS level 2 instead of setting CFLAGS explicitly to -Wall.
2003-12-07 17:34:52 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
41ea5e4b77
A too good Feynman quote to pass up.
2003-12-07 10:03:20 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
5645e50570
Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.
2003-11-12 20:08:47 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
094e585d1c
reformat HP eng. mgr quote
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Requested by: nate
2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
92797e8470
Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'.
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PR: 58909
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after: 1 week
2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b6f0aad2fb
Addition.
2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
32f3fff9ac
A comment about spam and cockroaches.
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Suggested by: dwmalone
2003-10-16 15:25:19 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
f8aa6f0c29
Fix typo.
2003-10-15 10:25:31 +00:00