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370 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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