Doug Barton
e23452dbca
Correct, add or improve attributions for, and add to quotations from
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"The Wizard of Oz"
One duplicate was also removed that wasn't the right quote anyway
2007-10-28 07:02:10 +00:00
Doug Barton
0a6f9396b3
Fix a couple of small typos, and remove a duplicate
2007-10-21 05:16:52 +00:00
Doug Barton
a956c7304b
Change to the original version of the poem titled "The Guy in the Glass,"
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and add the proper attribution. Also add an explanation for the Middle
English word used in the first line.
2007-10-21 05:15:02 +00:00
Philip Paeps
26bc1aebe9
Remove duplicate. Was that a bug? :-)
2007-06-12 09:20:31 +00:00
Ceri Davies
478018f0ad
Correct typo.
2007-06-06 11:12:56 +00:00
Doug Barton
2577a38eb3
Correct two small typos
2007-05-31 20:16:46 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
a6c4457396
Line wrap previous entry
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Submitted by: des
2007-03-30 04:31:53 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
76ddc8179b
Add some more random offensive quotes.
2007-03-29 08:08:34 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
314d29caae
A note from Peter Wemm about how to tell the difference between amd64 and
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ia64.
2007-03-29 07:49:59 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
9a88eeec45
Dialogue gem from Deadwood
2007-03-29 07:40:49 +00:00
Gabor Kovesdan
ff75233a7a
- Fix typo
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PR: bin/110648
Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@speakeasy.net>
Approved by: keramida (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
2007-03-26 11:44:46 +00:00
Philip Paeps
3fdbb5f071
Add Wise Words from Colin on irregular verbs and code quality. :-)
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Submitted by: cperciva
2007-01-11 15:19:53 +00:00
Doug Barton
1e11060f37
More minor cleanups:
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1. Fix small typo "retorted ." -> "retorted."
2. Remove from fortunes a story that is duplicated in fortunes2-o
3. Remove from fortunes and fortunes2-o Zippy the Pinhead quotes
that are already in the zippy file.
4. ... therefore remove zippy from fortunes.sp.ok
5. Remove a duplicate in the zippy file.
2007-01-06 22:04:46 +00:00
Doug Barton
574c45c445
Add the fortunes from the PR that were not already present.
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Delete some duplicates found while double checking the new ones,
and fix a typo.
These haven't been sorted yet, but will be in a future commit.
PR: ports/40273
Submitted by: Achim Patzner <ap@proxon.bnc.net>
2006-12-30 21:54:41 +00:00
Greg Lehey
e29e66e0c3
Wisdom of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan.
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Submitted by: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
2006-12-13 00:33:39 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
576be2064b
o Fix typo: manger -> manager.
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PR: misc/106253
Submitted by: Niclas Zeising
MFC after: 1 week
2006-12-03 15:25:55 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
7300fd9b5e
o /stand/sysinstall -> /usr/sbin/sysinstall.
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PR: conf/106254
Submitted by: Simon Olofsson
MFC after: 1 week
2006-12-03 15:22:45 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
b133abd183
Squash a typo.
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Submitted by: Miltiadis Margaronis <mmargaron@gmail.com>
2006-10-30 12:01:57 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
bc968064a9
It so happens that everything that is stupid is not unconstitutional.
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-- Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia
2006-10-23 13:25:17 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b9a3a80ddc
Voltaire again.
2006-10-20 18:12:25 +00:00
Chin-San Huang
8118616431
Add a tip on "how to strip UTF-8 BOM"
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Approved by: delphij (mentor)
2006-10-09 04:11:34 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
7954042f27
Add a delightful typographic gem I discovered on page 143 in Edward
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Tuftes book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
The constant width font does not quite do the typeset original justice,
but it is is good enough for a fortune.
2006-10-07 08:29:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
1a0ba4525f
Correct typo.
2006-09-27 19:20:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
807ee6099c
Too many good quotes flying by these days.
2006-09-17 21:36:16 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
0dc7ac73d8
visionary thoughts..
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MFC after: 1 week
2006-08-27 14:29:10 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
776fc0e90e
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
Poul-Henning Kamp
b4442b2c80
And now without typo.
2006-07-10 16:53:32 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
2c2ec0b614
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
Mark Murray
7c92769c19
More stale maintainer.
2006-07-09 20:26:36 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
cef2c44390
+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
Greg Lehey
7748dfd4c0
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 Paeps
0b3691a359
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 Bulte
e6f719c1d2
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 Bulte
2a01134cc9
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
Diomidis Spinellis
fd6f84b1df
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
Poul-Henning Kamp
9c7560167d
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
Poul-Henning Kamp
e267a10bc3
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 Bulte
63654e38ab
Go figure this error...
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Submitted by: Thomas Beha
2006-05-09 08:28:16 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
148baf2e02
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
Jens Schweikhardt
a8b9bc3be4
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 Konovalov
26ca704dbd
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
Andrey A. Chernov
1107d0af30
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
Ruslan Ermilov
e1fe3dba5c
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 Bulte
6362a01f31
Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank.
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MFC after: 1 month
2006-02-19 21:46:29 +00:00
Greg Lehey
cddfe5e9f6
Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem.
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Submitted by: Mårten Mickos
2006-02-16 09:30:12 +00:00
Greg Lehey
8f2df498c8
Clarify time frame of jkh quote.
2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b28acf1ca5
Add wisdom from jkh.
2006-01-31 21:41:32 +00:00
Diomidis Spinellis
03b20b4ab1
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
Colin Percival
6b9d644495
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 Riondato
f58efa8625
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