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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
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 
Requested by: nate
 2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
roam
a69e97d1cc Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'. 
PR:		58909
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after:	1 week
 2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
phk
947a627bb5 Addition. 2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
fanf
4e2a8e2c7e A comment about spam and cockroaches. 
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". 
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. 
Suggested by: nate
 2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
wilko
3405ad9023 'Upon the release of the second version' 
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" 
* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
 2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
ceri
e3cf310790 Correct a grammatical error. 
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 
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 
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]. 
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
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 
content when replying to an e-mail.
 2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
kris
2796980f7c Correct some typos. 
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
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 
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. 
(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
obrien
392c53b560 Make the __FBSDID usage consistent 
and protect copyright[] from Gcc 3.3's whining.
 2003-05-05 09:52:25 +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
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. 
Submitted by: Chris Wasser <cwasser@shaw.ca>
 2003-03-17 20:59:50 +00:00
grog
7467400839 Add long-term view of astronomy. 
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, 
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. 
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
ceri
23b3d3e001 "Happiness" is a noun. 
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. 
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after:	4.8 is out the door
 2003-02-16 18:38:12 +00:00
robert
cf513b76e7 Remove the suggestion to try `hangman', because it does not exist 
in the base system anymore.
 2003-02-15 09:11:25 +00:00
wes
bebc78d3e1 Add Warner Losh quote. 
Submitted by:	Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
 2003-02-11 21:38:02 +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 
filk that also appears in fortunes2.
 2003-01-23 19:23:52 +00:00
schweikh
4c7a08b14a s/Kank/Kang/ (the klingon) 
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, 
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/ 
Add FreeBSD Id tag where missing.
 2002-12-30 21:18:15 +00:00
schweikh
8275a80403 Fix a typo. Add FreeBSD ID in a %% comment. 
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. 
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 
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
tom
e5e93f10fa Minor grammatical correction 2002-10-20 13:41:44 +00:00
blackend
dcc30834b3 Fix the path to the make.conf example file. 
PR:		docs/44278
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
 2002-10-19 21:34:50 +00:00
fanf
6221a0f65e So a positive time zone offset is west, right? or is it east? Um. 
What is the standard for this, anyway? Ah, we get to choose. I see.

This commit is brought to you by the numbers 2001 and 2822 and the
letters P, O, S, I, X and R, F, C.
 2002-10-19 04:49:10 +00:00
schweikh
7db6eff0eb Correct the description of what fortunes get installed (by default, also the 
offensive ones). Make it clear that datfiles/Makefile needs to be edited in
case someone wants it otherwise.

PR:		misc/36153
Submitted by:	Nick Jennings <nick@namodn.com>
X-MFC after:	4.7 is out the door.
 2002-09-24 19:00:52 +00:00
schweikh
fb29191f96 s/seems to thing/seems to think 
X-MFC after:	4.7 is out the door
 2002-09-21 16:13:20 +00:00
tg
bf5dfd3bb3 Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate 
Bertrand Russell quotations.
 2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
jmallett
228b93ce82 Add a tip about using sed(1)'s FreeBSD-specific -i option. 
MFC after:	42 days
 2002-09-04 23:28:35 +00:00
dwmalone
31d77eaa65 Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere. 
PR:		7434
 2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
fanf
1f1f9bd75b Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2. 
Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends.
Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.
 2002-08-09 20:37:01 +00:00
fanf
42ecfecabf Re-sort. 2002-08-09 19:54:11 +00:00
fanf
faccc3c40c Remove spurious quotes. 2002-08-09 19:31:27 +00:00
fanf
c3b1de26ed Correctly sort previous addition. 2002-08-09 19:30:20 +00:00
fanf
89c3e5c564 Some more advice from Dijkstra. 2002-08-09 19:08:02 +00:00
fanf
563b40203b Fix a couple of typos in a Dijkstra quote. 2002-08-09 19:00:10 +00:00
dwmalone
e00a16ef8c Fix a typo. 
PR:		40539
Submitted by:	Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
 2002-07-14 22:50:12 +00:00
dwmalone
44dbe3e8f4 Fix a typo. 
PR:		40523
Submitted by:	Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>
 2002-07-14 15:28:01 +00:00
peter
78ca5fd896 Fix whitespace botch in previous commit. 2002-07-09 06:47:29 +00:00
peter
6eb4916dee Add C code that counts the bits in a 32 bit word, right next to the C code 
that reverses the bits in a 32 bit word.  Who thinks up this stuff?
 2002-07-09 02:56:10 +00:00
mp
8a4e84dbb3 Paraphrase a quote to remove year specific references. 
PR:		40291
Submitted by:	Pierre-Paul Lavoie <ppl@nbnet.nb.ca>
 2002-07-07 16:13:48 +00:00
wollman
45d5a82bf1 Add used include of <stdlib.h>, copying style bugs from adjacent lines. 2002-05-30 21:28:58 +00:00
dougb
00266d9f51 Correctly attribute a Douglas Adams quote, and remove a duplicate of 
the same quote.
 2002-05-15 04:35:27 +00:00
mph
2790da8d06 s/-300K/~300K/ 
This is an absolute (kelvin) temperature.  I expect that in the original
source it was typeset as $\sim 300~{\rm K}$ or similar, meaning
"approximately 300 K".  Changing it to a minus sign in the fortunes file
was clearly an error, as absolute temperatures are by definition positive.
 2002-05-01 06:20:57 +00:00
dougb
fe94f05da8 More ispell fun 2002-04-30 10:13:42 +00:00
dougb
08a4243733 Fix a few more of my typos, a few others I noticed, and some ispell help. 2002-04-30 08:08:31 +00:00
sheldonh
984aaf7fe5 Correct typo (is -> us). 2002-04-30 07:36:44 +00:00
jmallett
50116a633c Add something absurd I used one night as an example of CS overcomplication 
of things most hackers take for granted.
 2002-04-29 06:26:12 +00:00
jmallett
2c66f4a2cd Add one more here. 
Submitted by:	Glen "Going to be a Daddy" Neff
 2002-04-29 02:00:53 +00:00
jmallett
9f7f7d8d6e Remove a Kurt Vonnegut quote that appears in fortunes. 2002-04-29 01:44:16 +00:00
jmallett
6a589dc6a3 Spell out the name of Hunter S. Thompson. 2002-04-29 01:38:43 +00:00
jmallett
491ba39875 Sort one, remove some dupes. 2002-04-29 01:22:50 +00:00
jmallett
dc73f6bb73 Add something I found amusing when overheard, and a paraphrasal of it. 2002-04-29 01:05:23 +00:00
dougb
862db1562f Move the Rush Limbaugh fortunes to the offensive file, right after the 
Anti-Reagan section. :) Apparently, people find opinions contrary to
their own to be offensive.
 2002-04-29 00:41:55 +00:00
dougb
c424758ab6 Sort according to ../tools/do_sort 2002-04-29 00:33:30 +00:00
dougb
730253b82f * Add a quote about the differences between human and machine 
understanding from Ellen Ullman.
* Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering
of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script.
 2002-04-28 23:34:25 +00:00
dougb
8153c8ffd9 * Add $FreeBSD$ to limerick and zippy 
* Delete trailing white space in all its forms. In addition to being
bad style in general, it also causes formatting, and other problems
for various third party items (like xscreensaver) which use fortunes
for their own purposes.
 2002-04-28 21:59:07 +00:00
jmallett
48130aa318 Kill one version of a limerick here. 
Approved by:	The usual suspects on that IRC channel.
 2002-04-28 21:16:32 +00:00
jmallett
7a14893b0a Kill some duplicates. 
Kill an incorrectly duplicated Einstein limerick (thanks phk!)
 2002-04-28 21:03:26 +00:00
jmallett
84f4e02d50 Kill one exact duplicate of a Hunter S. Thompson quote. Put on peril-sensitive 
sunglasses for great evil, too.
 2002-04-27 06:14:32 +00:00
jmallett
2f889e2d8f Death to duplicate fortunes. 2002-04-27 05:46:13 +00:00
ceri
27d773a57e There is no host called new.bbc.co.uk - fix url. 
Reviewed by:	jkh
Approved by:	jkh, murray
MFC after:	3 days
 2002-04-26 10:58:06 +00:00
wollman
8c92a55949 Sort. 2002-04-25 19:31:43 +00:00
wollman
b56f16922f Spell Fred Brooks's name right. 2002-04-25 19:27:40 +00:00
wollman
cbe4dc51aa Resort and suppress dupes. 2002-04-25 19:12:30 +00:00
wollman
5677848cb8 Add a few more aphorisms. 2002-04-25 18:53:41 +00:00