yar
209e4786e7
Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim.
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This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.
PR: misc/101245
Submitted by: Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfreak org>
Tested by: md5(1)
MFC after: 1 week
2006-08-04 07:56:35 +00:00
phk
6139cbea69
And now without typo.
2006-07-10 16:53:32 +00:00
phk
dceeb25886
Add a good quote that gets used a lot in the debate about global
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warming right now:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclir
2006-07-10 16:30:46 +00:00
markm
8edb3edf3a
More stale maintainer.
2006-07-09 20:26:36 +00:00
phk
664c65a659
+To create quality software, the ability to say no is usually far
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+more important than the ability to say yes.
+ -- Michi Henning
+%
2006-06-20 08:34:36 +00:00
grog
bc433053d0
Burying UNIX--a quote by Rob Pike,
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Seen on The UNIX Heritage Society mailing list.
2006-06-12 23:28:52 +00:00
philip
716b0c76f3
Add two little nuggets of wisdom I picked up at work today:
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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. ;-)
2006-06-12 21:02:19 +00:00
wilko
f0d8cb5d0d
Who am I to correct the native speakers... anyway, s/council/counsel/
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Noted by: des
2006-06-12 13:44:17 +00:00
wilko
6ede61a908
Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason
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given proper legal council.
- Alfred Perlstein
2006-06-12 07:56:33 +00:00
dds
99d1c6dae6
Layers are for cakes, not for software.
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-- Bart Smaalders
From Performance Anti-patterns. ACM Queue 4(1):44-50. February 2006.
(Author confirmed via email that the quote is his own).
2006-05-28 06:16:15 +00:00
phk
deb189a7f1
In our system there's no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme
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Court decision and violent revolution.
-- Al Gore (New York Magazine, May 29 2006)
2006-05-25 11:21:40 +00:00
phk
66026e8c8b
To save you all the trouble with CVSWEB:
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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.
2006-05-17 11:00:49 +00:00
wilko
4ec74550a2
Go figure this error...
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Submitted by: Thomas Beha
2006-05-09 08:28:16 +00:00
dds
aa8d2024b9
Add attribution: the quote comes from Perlis's Paradigms of AI Programming
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p. 348. See http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
2006-04-24 12:13:02 +00:00
schweikh
459f95e73c
Remove a corrupted fortune ending in line noise. Even googling did not
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turn up a non-corrupted version, else I would have restored it.
(No, it's not the one that uses line noise intentionally.)
2006-04-17 12:14:46 +00:00
maxim
fa23d639eb
o s/you health/your health/.
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PR: conf/95810
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson
2006-04-15 17:07:32 +00:00
ache
4997b369b9
1) Fix hang at the end of line buffer (PR 95715)
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2) Localize
PR: 95715
Submitted by: Li-Lun Wang <llwang@infor.org> (slightly edited by me)
2006-04-14 17:32:27 +00:00
ru
388e590f95
Reimplementation of world/kernel build options. For details, see:
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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061725.html
The src.conf(5) manpage is to follow in a few days.
Brought to you by: imp, jhb, kris, phk, ru (all bugs are mine)
2006-03-17 18:54:44 +00:00
wilko
35856d05d2
Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank.
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MFC after: 1 month
2006-02-19 21:46:29 +00:00
grog
98d9669e85
Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem.
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Submitted by: Mårten Mickos
2006-02-16 09:30:12 +00:00
grog
b8874ce616
Clarify time frame of jkh quote.
2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
grog
72d0b1b091
Add wisdom from jkh.
2006-01-31 21:41:32 +00:00
dds
6ea6067b3e
Never do programs contain so few bugs as when no debugging tools
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are available.
-- Niklaus Wirth
Pointed by: Panagiotis Louridas
2006-01-28 09:19:20 +00:00
cperciva
219b28b1e3
Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by
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system calls.
2006-01-27 21:06:19 +00:00
matteo
e660c2ac95
Remove some duplicated entries
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PR: conf/81924
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Approved by: philip (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
2006-01-21 14:16:01 +00:00
schweikh
758de8f2ef
Correct some typos.
2005-12-26 16:09:58 +00:00
wilko
c5fcfaa6d9
We will not be responsible for damage to equipment, your ego, county wide
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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
2005-12-25 23:29:59 +00:00
wilko
130f918f03
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived"
2005-12-24 17:55:33 +00:00
dds
101ce2716d
Add missing John Gilmore quote.
2005-12-12 15:47:33 +00:00
dougb
0ceccd5c73
Canonify, correct, and add citations related to Douglas Adams' work.
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Correct a quotation from Hitchhiker's.
2005-12-05 06:47:23 +00:00
wes
b30ab4a9e9
Add another 'best quote about XML evar!' courtesy Pav Lucistnik (pav@)
2005-12-01 04:28:07 +00:00
wilko
e0572c0094
correct typo
2005-11-23 09:00:35 +00:00
wilko
e37baf09aa
add witty remark about serious thought.
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MFC after: 2 days
2005-11-21 21:42:43 +00:00
ru
61c0ca0abb
Add /dev/speaker support to amd64.
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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
2005-11-11 09:57:32 +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. :-)
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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:
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
jhb
6c5bcb1fd2
Correct an error in the previous revision. RAND_MAX is the maximum value
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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
2005-06-22 15:24:00 +00:00
phk
aaea0db099
Snoopy in quality of life.
2005-06-10 08:58:44 +00:00
ru
c951593ab8
Fix markup nits.
2005-06-07 21:43:16 +00:00
joerg
999d3f2f2a
Add Farnsworth support to morse(6).
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(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
2005-06-07 19:01:41 +00:00
wilko
0f06e53c5f
When operating the diopter adjustment knob with your eye to the view-
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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:
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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
jhb
8af0c36809
Fix for 64-bit platforms. random() returns values between 0 and RAND_MAX,
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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
2005-05-27 15:29:01 +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.
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Some white space and punctuation fixes.
2005-05-07 17:56:50 +00:00
stefanf
36030d1508
Make caesar and pom WARNS 6 clean. While there, use prototypes everywhere.
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PR: 62456
2005-05-01 19:34:22 +00:00
schweikh
f09f100e44
s/which/witch
2005-04-24 15:31:11 +00:00
trhodes
a9041ad05e
Enforce style.Makefile(5).
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Glanced at by: ru (some time ago).
2005-04-22 18:57:32 +00:00
phk
f48ecbb639
Data is not information;
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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",
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"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.
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Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).
2005-02-03 00:20:37 +00:00
ru
4bfd722d37
Fix bugs.
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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
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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
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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/
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Fortune was duplicated, remove one copy.
2005-01-22 20:00:50 +00:00
grog
48aecee0a9
Add comment on current state of hardware documentation.
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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
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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
f4c44b761b
NOCRYPT -> NO_CRYPT
2004-12-21 10:16:04 +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
stefanf
0de63fceef
Properly initialise 'filename' so that random -l doesn't try to open NULL.
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Const-qualify 'filename' to avoid a strdup() call due to -Wwrite-strings
silliness.
2004-10-03 15:34:15 +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
stefanf
b1d8596587
Include <stdlib.h> for exit(), use prototypes and bump WARNS to 6.
2004-08-01 18:52:40 +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
stefanf
77a4e4e421
Resolve a couple of warnings and bump WARNS to 6.
2004-07-11 17:26:18 +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
ru
fba1b06a6b
Markup fixes.
2004-05-16 21:52:48 +00:00
ru
3e3e3d8475
Really add -l to the usage output.
2004-05-16 21:49:23 +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
dds
104658ee3e
Add Greek character encoding suport.
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MFC after: 2 weeks
2004-05-11 11:11:14 +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
bde
2edbbfbff4
Fixed a mispelling of 0 as NULL.
2004-03-14 05:28:29 +00:00
fanf
24496b18b5
Label @ as being AC (since it's constructed like a prosign).
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Submitted by: des
2004-02-20 13:46:39 +00:00
fanf
39aa73fd6d
Add some missing punctuation symbols, in particular @ which (according to
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a recent Press Association release) was added to Morse code by the ITU in
December. @ was previously used for the SK prosign, which is now spelt &.
Obtained from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
2004-02-20 11:55:38 +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
ru
743cc6d002
Fixed style of DPADD and LDADD assignments as per style.Makefile(5).
2004-02-05 22:44:25 +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
blackend
4ce6889968
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
17cbb0b2fc
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
schweikh
c6baaab590
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
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
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Requested by: nate
2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
roam
a69e97d1cc
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
phk
a401023210
Add a '-l' option suitable for use with /dev/led/* lamps.
2003-11-03 11:05:43 +00:00
phk
947a627bb5
Addition.
2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
fanf
4e2a8e2c7e
A comment about spam and cockroaches.
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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".
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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.
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Suggested by: nate
2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
wilko
3405ad9023
'Upon the release of the second version'
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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"
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* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
ceri
e3cf310790
Correct a grammatical error.
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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
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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
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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].
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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
markm
376c7c030b
Don't check for the existance of src/crypto/ for building items that
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may contain crypto. The days of ITAR paranoia are over, and the simple
macro tests that remain are sufficient.
2003-07-24 18:30:25 +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
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content when replying to an e-mail.
2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
kris
2796980f7c
Correct some typos.
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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
will
003ad51e2a
Handle 12-hour clocks properly: when the time is 00:00-00:59, adjust the
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hour to 12 so the time reads "12:00-12:59 AM".
2003-06-23 16:01:11 +00:00
gsutter
1ce49745e1
Remove near-duplicate entry, keeping the better attributed one.
2003-06-19 22:52:50 +00:00
murray
1f5522a497
In the build process, fortune files have been randomized since at
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least the 4.4-lite days. This is pointless, since fortune(6) performs
its own randomization. It was also problematic for binary update
systems such as ports/security/freebsd-update. This commit simply
removes the -r option to strfile so that the datfiles are constant.
Submitted by: Colin Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca>
2003-06-19 07:02:00 +00:00
joerg
dbea3df4e6
Preserve an involunteerily joke SunCheckup has been providing.
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(NB: the space before the colon in the second line is authentic, please
don't remove.)
2003-06-18 12:46:20 +00:00
hoek
7a3fdc58a0
Fixup three rather minor typos that have irked me over time.
2003-05-31 16:27:53 +00:00
des
5aabe4b4db
add a NOCRYPT check alongside the NO_OPENSSL check.
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Approved by: re (scottl)
2003-05-19 15:52:50 +00:00
ru
7fa127e932
mdoc(7) police: Make SYNOPSIS match usage().
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Approved by: re (blanket)
2003-05-16 21:27:23 +00:00
ru
5e69537ef5
mdoc(7) police: Added "rot13" to the NAME section.
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Approved by: re (blanket)
2003-05-16 21:26:39 +00:00
obrien
392c53b560
Make the __FBSDID usage consistent
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and protect copyright[] from Gcc 3.3's whining.
2003-05-05 09:52:25 +00:00
mux
c91649aa81
Add an option to print the time in 12-hour format.
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Submitted by: Samy Al Bahra <samy@kerneled.com>
2003-03-28 16:37:45 +00:00
eivind
d22ded66bf
Add a new chance at getting offended, having removed so many.
2003-03-24 18:59:00 +00:00
eivind
46bf9e26a7
Remove duplicates
2003-03-24 18:58:16 +00:00
eivind
6c8ac02e62
Fix two more typos
2003-03-24 18:56:36 +00:00
tjr
7444018a7f
Explain what the rot13 script does.
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PR: 39044
2003-03-24 11:18:30 +00:00
eivind
779673e2b7
Fix typos
2003-03-19 18:21:42 +00:00
eivind
ed072c17cf
Fix typo
2003-03-19 18:14:47 +00:00
eivind
3e7fb199ef
Remove duplicates
2003-03-19 17:55:17 +00:00
eivind
18111c9405
Fix typos
2003-03-19 17:54:22 +00:00
eivind
13530229f4
Refactor two sexual jokes to murphy-o
2003-03-19 17:50:59 +00:00
dcs
2575bf9123
Improved version of Unix sex.
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Submitted by: Chris Wasser <cwasser@shaw.ca>
2003-03-17 20:59:50 +00:00
grog
7467400839
Add long-term view of astronomy.
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Submitted by: newton
The attribution appears to be correct according to
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/sagan.htm . Others have apparently
attributed it to Carl Sagan.
2003-03-15 02:10:53 +00:00
fanf
a824da445b
At the risk of serious physical abuse from markm, add another regex joke,
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but s/regex/regular expression/g for terminological consistency.
2003-03-10 19:58:37 +00:00
dcs
774a21c5f7
We were low on regex jokes. Now we are *really* low on them.
2003-03-10 13:47:43 +00:00
wollman
6706d1e5c2
Fix style of recent additions and sort.
2003-02-26 04:41:58 +00:00
mike
925e5bf5a9
Add a great quote from Linus Torvalds about BDE.
2003-02-26 03:42:10 +00:00
dcs
5a2e3e0dfe
EMACS joke (no, not EMACS itself).
2003-02-24 18:04:20 +00:00
schweikh
021053ab88
Fix a grammar bogon.
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Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door.
2003-02-24 17:52:02 +00:00
wollman
49ccb4d057
Add a quote from Bob Schieffer's recent book about freedom of the press.
2003-02-23 06:14:04 +00:00
ru
26cbc7939f
Fixed SYNOPSIS.
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Expanded stdin/stdout definitions.
Ordered the SEE ALSO references.
Moved some chat from the BUGS section to freebsd-chat@.
Removed ``cvs log'' material from the HISTORY section.
2003-02-23 01:44:14 +00:00
ceri
23b3d3e001
"Happiness" is a noun.
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PR: misc/47345
Submitted by: Ben Rosengart <ben@narcissus.net>
2003-02-18 20:49:12 +00:00
fanf
0768175e02
Add Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming.
2003-02-18 20:34:13 +00:00
schweikh
a787a2ce23
Correct typos.
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Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door
2003-02-16 18:38:12 +00:00
seanc
cb6083f980
flexlint rears its head as well as some style(9) fixes[1]. Fixed a
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few bugs for a few corner cases and correctly handle the case where
read(2) is read()'ing from a non-file descriptor and could get fewer
bytes back than the buffer, but it isn't EOF[2]. random(6) extensively
tested and believed to be bug free (save performance for large files).
Submitted by: mkm [1], tjr[2]
2003-02-15 10:26:10 +00:00
robert
cf513b76e7
Remove the suggestion to try `hangman', because it does not exist
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in the base system anymore.
2003-02-15 09:11:25 +00:00
wes
bebc78d3e1
Add Warner Losh quote.
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Submitted by: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
2003-02-11 21:38:02 +00:00
seanc
0f9b087524
Update random(6) to have the ability to randomize a file/stdin based
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off of lines or words. See the man page for details.
Reviewed by: markm
MFC after: 3 days
2003-02-11 19:32:18 +00:00
mike
be6f69b501
Immortalize a Robert Watson quote.
2003-02-10 17:34:32 +00:00
fanf
9d04c4bbe7
Add an explanation of why indirection is good. Remove an indirection
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filk that also appears in fortunes2.
2003-01-23 19:23:52 +00:00
schweikh
4c7a08b14a
s/Kank/Kang/ (the klingon)
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PR: misc/45012
Submitted by: Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org>
2003-01-04 17:08:23 +00:00
schweikh
d3367c5f5d
Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
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especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
schweikh
86f7487fb6
Fix typos, mostly s/ an / a / where appropriate and a few s/an/and/
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Add FreeBSD Id tag where missing.
2002-12-30 21:18:15 +00:00
ru
2a1141d1d9
mdoc(7) police: Added the missing .Os call; it's not strictly
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necessary nowadays, but is documented as "required", and may
become so again in the future.
Approved by: re
2002-12-11 15:55:29 +00:00
ru
4cbb8ca45a
mdoc(7) police: sweep.
2002-11-29 16:21:33 +00:00
schweikh
8275a80403
Fix a typo. Add FreeBSD ID in a %% comment.
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MFC after: 3 days
2002-11-17 09:53:11 +00:00
joerg
856dc69260
set watch in tcsh requires an equal sign after the variable name.
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MFC after: 1 day
2002-11-16 13:24:44 +00:00
dcs
5cbd8d2e81
Add gerrold.limerick to the building process.
2002-11-10 23:41:01 +00:00
dcs
b8f6d0dd7f
Finished at last.
2002-11-10 23:37:25 +00:00
dcs
e53748a0c6
Filling this file at last (now check when I first committed it and see how
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long certain people take to return books...).
Still more to go.
2002-11-09 22:22:52 +00:00
fanf
c98f436d67
The future's bright: the future's Ballard...
2002-10-30 01:00:48 +00:00
phk
e1248d5245
Add a fortune for people who have read their classics.
2002-10-29 10:16:06 +00:00