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.
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OK'ed by: core
2004-12-21 08:47:35 +00:00
dds
d433895d19
From Richard W. Hamming ``You and Your Research''
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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:
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
2411b47f68
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
blackend
35b7b725a8
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
blackend
894378ef71
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
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
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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
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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
le
3654de90d4
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
le
c05d3eafae
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
le
c844209ee5
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
le
a93503b196
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
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
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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
dougb
e021509ce5
* 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
dougb
d8ee4c34cb
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
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*
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Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to: me, again
2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
fanf
7e021c2452
Pedantry.
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Submitted by: njl@
2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
fanf
513cf0367d
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
fanf
8169074470
Re-sort
2004-05-10 23:02:07 +00:00
fanf
14ba243beb
Moore's law vs. Nethack
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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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
a763f85517
Too good to miss.
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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.
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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.
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Wisdom by: wes
2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00