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login: case '\7': *((char *)(384*1024L+062)) = 2; /* beep */ Welcome to VAX/VMS Version 1.60 ON ENDFILE(SYSIN) GO TO ADATHIBA; /* FILE-VEGE VIZSGALATA */ Tape dump of all filesystems taken this afternoon. "Analysis" is "design" spelled backwards. "RULE 7: Option arguments cannot be optional." Sys V Interface p 343. "Sound advice" is usually mostly sound with not much advice. "The Dresser," first a play, then a movie, then AT&T headquarters. "The more you drive ... the less intelligent you are." -- Miller, in Repo Man "x.c", line 1: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye! #(cat probably won't work on 8 bit files, you will have to use a simpler filter) $! nulled, predecessor circle $3,000,000 %-W-NORML Normal Successful Completion 'Tis a gross error, held in schools, That Fortune always favours fools. - John Gay. 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp,/Than with an old one dying. 'Tis nobler in the mind to Look Things Up than to Pull Them Out Of The Air. (^|[ (,;])(([Jj]ul[^ ]* *|(07|7)/)0*5)([^0123456789]|$) * UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories. *** LGP ERROR ***: Initialize -- Cannot initialize graphics hardware device. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** -1: No code table for op: ++post ...and on the seventh day, He exited from append mode. /usr/games/fortune: not found /usr/news/gotcha 1 bulls, 3 cows 127 now in the unregulated subsidiary; see /usr/news/btl-split 2 is always smaller than 3, even for large values of 2. 2 lacks generality in a way that 1 doesn't. 23. ... r-q1 355/113 -- not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation. 4.2BSD is like a nightmare about Tenex. - Geoff Collyer 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one. 55mph -- It's not a good idea, it's just the law. : is not an identifier A 10.0-szer 0.1 sohasem 1.0! A 6-char limit is like a 6-inch trout: throw it back. A 6-char limit is like night. A Cray is the best machine for simulating the performance of a Cray. A Point is a pair of shorts. A Smith and Wesson beats four aces. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. A big book is a big nuisance. - Callimachus, librarian of Alexandria A billion here, a billion there; soon you're talking real money. -E. Dirksen A bird in hand is safer than one overhead. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. A block grant is a nice terminal, but it will keep you awake until noon. A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors. A chicken is just an egg's way of making more eggs. A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. A consistent indentation style is the hobgoblin of little minds. A couch is as good as a chair. A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. A critic is a legless man who teaches running. A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it? A day without sunshine is like night. A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the sun god. A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the turkey. A fly by night leaves no shadow beyond a doubt. A fool and his money stabilize the economy. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Domine! A game, a teaching aid, a sport, and a piece of art. -Erno Rubik A gentleman is one who is never rude unintentionally. -Noel Coward A good memory does not equal pale ink. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. A goodly apple rotten at the heart:/Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! A hacker does for love what others would not do for money. A homeowner's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a weekend for? A hydrogen bomb doesn't care how brave you are. A hypothesis is an opinion that you are trying to prove true. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance from Sam. A king's castle is his home. A liberal is one too open-minded to take his own side in an argument. A lone dime always gets the number nearly right. A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. -Stephen Jay Gould A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him. -Mong Tse A man who fishes for marlin in ponds will put his money in Etruscan bonds. A man who turns green has eschewed protein. A man with 3 wings and a dictionary is cousin to the turkey. A man without a faith is like a fish without a bicycle. A megabyte here, a megabyte there, and pretty soon you're talking real power. A megaflop is a failure of gigantic proportions. A mighty maze! but not without a plan. -Pope A more wretched hive of scum and villainy: not found. A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had. -Orson Welles A penny saved is a political breakthrough. A penny saved is ridiculous. A penny saved kills your career in the Pentagon. A philosopher does not need a torch to gather glow-worms by at mid-day. -- Earnest Bramah A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs. A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. A radical is a person with both feet firmly planted in the air. A real Initiation never ends. -Aleister Crowley A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -Edgar Watson Howe A recently completed trial proved TOAD Generic 1 to be reliable, user-friendly, and convenient. A resort area will be part of your next holiday plans A rolling stone gathers momentum. A rose by any other name would still have thorns. A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. -W. Irving A song in time is worth a dime. A stitch in time keeps your tu-tu from becoming a four-four. A system programmer is someone who debugs his programs with an oscilloscope. A theory is better than an explanation. A thousand throats may be slit in one night by a running man. A tree is best measured when it is down. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn. A twisting road will take you to Warsaw, but you won't be bored. A u.f.o. closely encountered is no longer a u.f.o. A victory is the greatest tragedy in the world - except a defeat. -Wellington A watched terminal never prints. A wise man never tries to warm himself in front of a painting of a fire. A witty saying means nothing. -Voltaire A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. -Rudyard Kipling A578 Your FLP overflows into your KBUF. AAAOO OOZOR AZZAZ ZAIEO AZAEI IIOZA KHOEO OOYTH OEAZA EAOOZ AKHOZ AKHEY THXAA LETHX KH Ablata at alba. Abortion and suicide are hereditary only if you prevent them. About all some parents accomplish in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. Absence is better than a cure. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are worthless. Accounting software is structured as a set of tools that can be used to build accounting systems. Ad pulchritudinem tria requiruntur; integritas, consonantia, claritas. -Aquinas Admiration is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. After 24 hours, corpses and guests smell bad. After all, a murderer is only an extroverted suicide. Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. Again, and strongly, undress the sheep. It is getting to visitors. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly aurifers. All dare to write, who can or cannot read. -Horace, `Epistles', Book II All my men wear badges, or they wear nothing at all. All of the bridges between our today and our yesteryear have been burnt. All of these futures having been sold, this fortune appears as a matter of record only. All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism. All that does not glitter is not not-gold. All the ethics in Hollywood can be rolled up and fit into a gnat's navel. All the good ones are taken. All the great men are dead and I'm not feeling too well myself. All things considered, life is 9-to-5 against. All things that are, are lights. All you need to know is in the manual. Almost all good computer programs contain at least one random-number generator. Always keep a record of data. It indicates you've been working. Always make water when you can. -Wellington America's best buy for a dime is a telephone call to the right person. An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. An airplane is in your future. An artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs. - Varese An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support. An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. An elephant is a mouse with an operating system. An idle mind is worth two in the bush. An oscilloscope is what cavemen used to debug fire. -Jim Veres An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. And I alone am returned to wag the tail. And malt does more than Milton can/to justify God's ways to man -A.E. Housman And so to bed. Androgyny recapitulates philately. Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree. Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences you don't like. Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an *art*. -Chas. McCabe Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it. Any man's speeding ticket on the Interstate diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Clarke Anyone can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. Anyone who buys Wisconsin cheese is a traitor to mankind! -J. Pournelle Anyone who understands my music will never be unhappy again. -L. Van Beethoven Anyone's life is incomplete unless they are, in some smaller or larger way, saving the world. Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. Arabic is a language, Persian is a sweetmeat, and Turkish is an art. Arabic is a mystery -- love is just a crock. Are we not men? Are you kidding? Are you sure you want a two dimensional array? Aren't you glad his name wasn't Alexander Graham Klaxon? Aries -- this is your lucky day! Art is merely cheese made visible. Artistic ventures highlighted. Rob a museum. As above, so below. As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote. As of Tuesday, C will be flushed in favor of COBOL. Please update all programs. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. At the feast of souls failure is always the guest of honor. Atomic compare and exchange. These sequences are not actually atomic [⋯]. However, they are very close to atomic, [⋯] LinuxThreads has been using these sequences for many years. Attend winter sheep meetings. Learning never ends! Auribus teneo lupum. Automating a mess yields an automated mess. -Michael Hammer Ave discordia. Avoid a hasty decision. Avoid reality at all costs. Away put your weapon! I mean you no harm. BLISS is ignorance. Bad taste is timeless. Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare. Bank error in your favor. Collect $200. Basic is like doing arithmetic with Roman numerals. - MD McIlroy Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio. Be the sea, and see me be. Beauty is only sin deep. H H Munro Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. Beauty times brains equals a constant. Becoming an overnight success usually takes years. Been Transferred Lately? Better be right or your big venture goes wrong. -Resistor color code mnemonic Better to have failed your Wasserman than never to have loved at all. Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act falls the shadow. Beware -- local customs vary. Check with a native before going into the jungle. Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie. Beware of low-flying butterflies. Beware the foot of Nessus! Beware: the light at the end of the tunnel may be New Jersey. Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous Initiation. Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. Biggus Diggus wants YOU. Bignose from Winnetka. Blessed St. Leibowitz, let them keep on dreamin' down there... Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth. Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, for they Shall be Known as Wheels. Bosses never realize that a bottle neck is always at the top. Bourne again. Brain fried -- core dumped Brashith Alhim Bring your wife or husband and pink slip for the best trade-in deal in town. Bubble bubble, toil and trouble; cast that float into a double. Buick offers inbred american quality. -TV ad Build a better mousetrap, and nature will build a better mouse. Build it so that even a fool can use it, and only a fool will want to use it. Bus error -- core dumped But he who kisses the joy as it flies/Lives in Eternity's sunrise. -Wm. Blake But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything. -Wm. Blake But you'll never become a rhinoceros...you haven't got the vocation! But, Siriusly... By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. By omnibus I traveled to Brooklyn. By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes. C'est CHouette. Swiss bumper sticker C'est dommage, mais c'est vrai. C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas Unix. -Henry Spencer CB is a great place to work. There are so many good going away parties. CB is a many gendered thing. California is a fine place to live if you happen to be an orange. - Fred Allen Campus Crusade for Cthulhu -- It found me. Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? Can tomorrow be more than just the end of today? Cannot fork -- try again. Capitalism is indeed obsessed with money, but Marxism is obsessed with Marxism. Captain Clark welcomes you aboard. Caught in --More-- loop. Caution -- be sure brain is engaged before putting mouth in gear. Caution: Do not view laser light with remaining eye. Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch. Celibacy is not hereditary. Center 1127 -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure! Center meeting at 4pm in 2C-543 Centran manuals are available in 2B-515. Charlie don't surf. Children are hereditary: if your parents didn't have any, neither will you. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Club sandwiches, not baby seals. Cocaine is nature's way of saying you make too much money. Cogito Ergo Spud. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Communication is only possible between equals. Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness. Constants aren't. Variables don't. LISP does. Functions won't. Bytes do. Contains no kung fu, car chases or decapitations. Continental Life. Why do you ask? Convictions cause convicts -- what you believe imprisons you. Core Error - Bus Dumped Could not open 2147478952 framebuffers. Courage is something you can never totally own or totally lose. Cowards die many times before their deaths;/The valiant never taste of death but once. Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!! Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you are doing. Creditors have much better memories than debtors. Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. -Brendan Behan Cthulhu Saves! ... in case He's hungry later. Dames is like streetcars -- The oceans is full of 'em. -Archie Bunker Dames lie about anything - just for practice. -Raymond Chandler Damn it, i gotta get outta here! Dangerous knowledge is a little thing. Data potato, du wop du wop. Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed. De minimis non curat lex. Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death to all fanatics! Deep down, we all need that escape velocity. -Steven Spielberg. Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. Department meeting in 3 minutes. Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face. Der Herrgott wurfelt nicht. -A. Einstein Did you know ... that no-one ever reads these things? Did you know that clones never use mirrors? Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd ich nun nicht los. Die: to stop sinning suddenly. Dieux! Un monstre hideux. En hurlant. Nous poursuit. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. Disco delenda est. Disk crisis, please clean up! Disobedience was Man's Original Virtue. -Oscar Wilde. Distrust yourself, and sleep before you fight. 'Tis not too late tomorrow to be brave. - J. Armstrong. Ditat Deus. Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. Do not clog intellect's sluices with bits of knowledge of questionable uses. Do not confuse boredom with security. Do not confuse effort with work. Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light Do not meddle in the affairs of troff; it is subtle and quick to anger. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards: it makes them soggy and hard to light. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards: they are subtle and quick to anger. Do not meddle in the mouth. Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight. Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out if it alive. Do not throw butts in the urinal: it makes them soggy and hard to light. Do not throw butts in the urinal: they are subtle and quick to anger. Do not underestimate the power of the Force. Do not use the blue keys on this terminal. Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. Do what comes naturally now. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Does George know what he's got here? -Steven Spielberg. Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so? -Wm. Blake Does the early bird enjoy the worm as much as the late bird enjoys the sleep? Don't be overly suspicious where it's not warranted. Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say. Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. Don't commute, communicate. Don't conscience-stricken before they're hatched. Don't eat yellow snow. Don't feed the bats tonight. Don't force it, use a bigger hammer. Don't forget to run "make depend" Don't get mad, make book. Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while. Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon. Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today. Don't let your thoughts get in a rut. The knife which spreads may also cut. Don't lie if you don't have to. -Leo Szilard Don't look back -- something may be gaining on you. -Satchel Paige. Don't play games with me. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Don't put a loaded rifle on the stage unless someone intends to fire it. Don't rely on your nose -- TEST ATMOSPHERE! Don't speak about Time, until you have spoken to him. Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective. Don't try to have the last word. You might get it. Don't try to out-weird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. Don't type so hard. Don't vote -- it only encourages them. Don't worry -- dat mine, it can't hurt us -- it's one of ours. -Eccles Don't worry if it doesn't work right; if everything did, you'd be out of a job. Don't worry, it's not loaded. Don't worry, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in? Don't you have anything better to do with your time? Down with categorical imperative! Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. Dreams are free, but you get soaked on the connect time. Drive defensively, buy a tank. Ducking for apples. Change one letter and it's the story of my life. _ Dorothy Parker Dump time is unreasonable During 1986, UNIX will dominate the low end. J. Scanlon Dyslexics of the world, untie! E Pluribus Unix. E Unibus Plurum. E pur si muove. ERROR CREEPOUT HAS BEGUN EVACUATION ROUTE ----> Each man's death diminishes me for I am involved in Humanity. -John Donne Easy for you to type, I have to do all the work. Eat snart foobs. -Unknown Jerome Economic analysts say that while the economy may be slowing, it is not fizzling out. Edinburgh is the Reykjavik of the South. Ego sum ens omnipotens. Eileen L. Behr has translated her skill in public speaking into a successful career selling capacitors. Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -Groucho Marx' last words Either we are alone or we are not. Either way is mind-boggling. Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally. English is a stretch language; one size fits all. -W. Safire Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion. Espanol tiene demasiada mucha grammatica. Even a cabbage may look at a king. Even a hawk is an eagle among crows. Even if I could be Shakespeare, I think I should still choose to be Faraday. - A. Huxley Even paranoia can sometimes be taken to extremes. Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. Even the simplest solution is bound to have something wrong with it. Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. Even the thousand-zloty note can't tapdance. Even these days, it's not as easy to go crazy as you think. Ever see what ratfor does on a syntax error in a for loop? Ever wake up feeling like a null pointer? -Allan Pratt Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. Every day, thousands of housewives pick up speed. Every excess becomes a vice. Every good subversive does it for fun. -Rich Rosen Every law creates a whole new criminal class overnight. Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own. Every purchase has its price. Every solution breeds new problems. Every time you make something foolproof, along comes a better class of fool. Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink. Everything breaks down. Everything east of the San Andreas Fault will eventually plunge into the ocean. Everything is funny so long as it is happening to someone else. -Will Rogers Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. - A. Einstein Everything takes longer than you think. Everything you know is wrong. Everything's been said before, but nobody's listening, so keep repeating. Ewige Blumenkraft. Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler. Excellent day to have a rotten day. Excellent time to become a missing person. Executive ability is in your make-up. Exercise is the Yuppie version of bulemia. Exhibition will continue to decline and ultimately lead to other sources of entertainment. Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay. Expected arrival date is presently unknown. -Dave Kristol Experience varies directly with the equipment ruined. Explicit liber viri elephantini. External Security: FORTRAN 8X combines the simplicity of PL/I and the parsimony of ADA. -S Feldman Fact without theory is trivia, theory without fact is bullshit. Facta, non verba -- et verbum caro factus est. Facta, non verba. Fairness? Decency? How can you expect fairness and decency on a planet of sleeping people? Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth. Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes. -Emperor Ferdinand. Favor negative lobes. Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. Fear not, the end of the world isn't until next week. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Fiat lux. Fiat voluntas tua. Fill what's empty; empty what's full; scratch where it itches. -Alice Roosevelt Longworth Find the enemy and shoot him down; everything else is rubbish. -M. von Richthofen Fine day to throw a party. Throw him as far as you can. Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy. First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. First things first. Why not send for the Nazis right now. Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressperson can. Flee at once, all is discovered. Flight 23 is down in the Bermuda Triangle. Florida is the "flea and tick capital of America." Fnord. For a good time, call 8367-3100. For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. For me, UNIX is a way of being. -Armando P. Stettner For people who like that kind of book, that is the kind of book they will like. Forget it, Jake...it's Chinatown. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. Fortis fortuna adiuvat. - Terence Fortran est; non potest legi. Fortunate are they who can laugh at themselves; they will never want for amusement. Fortune, good night, smile once more, turn thy wheel! - King Lear II.ii.180 Fortunes ... come tumbling into some men's laps. - Francis Bacon. Frankly, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. Freedom is the right to be our own potty little selves. -G. K. Chesterton Freedom of incrustations of grime is contiguous with rectitude. Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. From EXPLMY: Serious internal error, check the error code in the documentation of VRFYMY. Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening. Gaffer's tape, like The Force, has a light and a dark side and binds the universe together. Gallium Arsenide is the material of the future and it always will be. Generalizations are useful. The work contained in them can be reckoned as labor and therefore can create value. -G.W. Hegel Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals. Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Gentlemen, you can't fight here. This is the war room. Get your boots on, 'cause we're gunna go in DEEP! Give me a rock, paper and scissors and I will move the world. CCFestoon Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your troubles. Give your child mental blocks for Christmas. Given enough inside information and unlimited credit, you've got to go broke. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Go out and see what the real world has to offer -Gerry Todd Go suck on an infinite tube. God does not play dice. God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can choose our friends. God is in the rock too -- in the rock! God isn't dead, he just couldn't find a parking place. God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. God not only plays dice with the universe, He loads the dice too. Gods! A hideous beast, baying is pursuing us! Golden lads and girls all must,/Like chimney sweepers, come to dust. Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. - Thomas Appleton. Good Rule: Don't put anything in your mouth labeled "HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED" Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. Good day for flaming at floyd!trb. Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase. Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work. Good day to do the unexpected: write some documentation. Good day to let down old friends who need help. Good day to write a purchase requisition for a 747. Good fish get dull but sex is always fun. -- Mehinaku proverb Good health is just the slowest, most lingering way of dying. Good intentions don't mean anything unless they can deliver. Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day. Gort! Klaatu barada...uh...uh... Government expands to absorb all available revenue and then some. Government is just Anarchy's way of making more anarchy. Graecum est; non potest legi. Great shot, kid. That was one in a million. Great warrior? Heh-heh-heh. Wars do not make one great. Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets. Growth itself becomes the only moral end. -John Dewey Guns don't kill detectives -- love does. Ha! You killed my husband, Sam. Be kind to me. Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole history of the world would have been different. - Pascal Hail to the sun god/He sure is a fun god/Ra! Ra! Ra! Half Moon tonight. (At least it's better than no Moon at all.) Hang by your pseudopod, write if you find a warm rich planet ripe for conquest. Hang in there, hammock-nose. Hangover is the wrath of the grapes. Have a nice diurnal anomaly. Have you done your Christmas chopping yet? -anon. White House Advisor 12/24/81 Have you hugged my T-shirt today? He can't think without his hat. He cried at all his own weddings, and with reason. He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered. He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. He serves the state best who opposes it most. -Thoreau He that laugheth in the face of death haveth the last laugh. He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. He was al coltissh, ful of ragerye,/And ful of jargon as a flekke pye. -Chaucer He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes. He who binds himself to a joy/Does the winged life destroy. -Wm. Blake He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. He who has science and art has religion. -Goethe He who hesitates is last. He who hesitates is scrap metal. He who hesitates is sometimes saved. He who invents adages for others to peruse takes along rowboat when going on cruise. He who keeps his nose to the grindstone, has a flat face. He who laughs last is a little slow on the uptake. He who laughs, lasts. He who listens last is the last one listening. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. -H.S. Thompson He who spends a storm beneath a tree, takes life with a grain of TNT. He who trains his tongue to quote from learned sages will be known far and wide as a smartass. He who wears belt and suspenders needs tighter belt. Help a swallow land at Capistrano. Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more. Help me, i'm a prisoner in a chinese computer terminal! Hey, I've got it -- let's put on a show! Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password? Hindsight is an exact science. His heart was yours from the first moment that you met. His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine. History is a race between education and catastrophe. -H. G. Wells Hit space to start Hodie tempum scriptire in Latinum non habeo. Cras epistlum submissibo. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Home is where / is. Honi soit la vache qui rit. Hop before you skip. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the chapters involving quantum mechanics. How can I take an interest in my work when I don't like it? How can you work when the system's so crowded? How did the Universe manage to go bang in such an unreasonable way? -PCW Davies How do I love thee? Hand me my calculator... How is it far, if you can think of it? How long you live has nothing to do with how long you are going to be dead. How sharper than a child's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. How the elephant got into my pyjamas I'll never know. -Marx, Animal Crackers How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. How you look depends on where you go. Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. Human kind cannot bear very much reality. -T.S. Eliot Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. Hypothesize and test. I am Magnus. You are registered in my memory banks... I am a high-pressure guy, and I didn't take this job to conduct a going-out-of-business sale. - A.A. Penzias I am free of the wheel of Maya; I am dead to the dance of life. I am large; I contain multitudes. I am the Supreme Being. I'm not entirely dim. I am the beast, I am the Word of the Aeon...I am a hell of a Holy Guru. I am the wandering glitch -- catch me if you can. I can call spirits from the vasty deep./Why, so can I, or so can any man. I can resist everything except temptation. -Oscar Wilde. I can't decide whether to throw you overboard or just change the way you look. I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience. I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large. I dinna believe she'll hold up much longer, Captin. I do not sketch or design a work, I merely begin. -Joan Miro I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone I don't have a moral plan... I'm a Canadian. -David Cronenberg I don't like to walk, and I don't like to paddle. -James Watt I don't love you any more since you ate my dog. I don't mind your thinking slowly; i mind your publishing faster than you think. -W. Pauli I give presents to the mother, but I think of the daughter. I hate programs that chdir on you - Boyd Roberts I have 36 rolls of 5247 for our use in the laser fridge... I have NEVER written a program in C! Narain Gehani I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats; I tell them the truth and they never believe me. -Cavour I have everything we will need. I have never let my schooling interfere with my educations. I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it. -Cage I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion. I haven't lost my mind. I've got it backed up on tape somewhere. I hope that there are sour apples in every bushel. I kissed my first cigarette on the herpolhode lying in the invariable plane. I kissed my first cigarette on the stage unless someone intends to fire it. I kissed my first lady and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since. -Arturo Toscanini I know nothing. -Ken Thompson I know the difference between real-real and drug-real. I like user-hostile ignorance-based amateur systems. I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours. I love Pascal ... I'm also into leather. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. I love you. I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts. I never dringk ... wine. -Bela Lugosi I never refuse. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. -Disraeli I knew it was coming and I still felt as if I'd swallowed a snowcone whole. I regard an original error as better than a borrowed truth. -Merton. I regard an original error as better than no Moon at all. I see no login here! I see only darkness in the crystal ball I sense something -- a presence I haven't felt since.... I taught him everything he knows. Now he knows more. -Randal L. Schwartz I thank you from the heart of my bottom. I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the driving right now. I think my spaceship knows which way to go. I think that I shall never see a billboard as lovely as a tree. -Ogden Nash I think; therefore I am confused. I was just going to call you. I will not suffer fools gladly, but I will gladly make fools suffer. -Bimmler I wish I had time to explain dimensional transcendentalism -Dr. Who I wish you humans would leave me alone. I wonder what will happen if I touch these two wires together. I would be perfectly happy being Kepler, [but] I have been Kepler many times over.-B. Mandelbrot I wouldn't let a knight out on a dog like this! I wouldn't marry her to a ten foot Pole. I wouldn't marry him with a ten foot pole. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy. -Martin Mull I'd rather have my mail delivered by Lockheed than ride in a plane built by the Post Office. I'll eat it if I'm wrong. I mean a potato. - Danny Sleator I'll produce anything that gets high ratings. -Anonymous NBC official I'll smoke when the pope's wife takes the pill. I'm a Hollywood writer; so I put on a sports jacket and take off my brain. I'm free -- and freedom tastes of reality. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life. I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. I'm sorry, but I've made other plans. I've done this before and never had any trouble. I've got a ferret sticking up my nose. ICIKL: DO I = 1 /* BY +1 FELTETELEZESEVEL */ TO 2*N; IOT trap -- core dumped IOT trap -- core melted If A=B and B=C, then A=C, except where void or prohibited by law. -Roy Santoro If Congress must do a painful thing, it must be done in an odd-numbered year. If God could perform the tricks we do, He'd be a happy man. If God had meant Texans to ski, he would have made bullshit white. If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands. If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions? If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows. If God meant for Texans to ski, He would have made them a mountain. If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a candidate. If I could remember the names of all these particles I would have been a botanist. -- Enrico Fermi If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -Albert Einstein If I had to choose between System V and 4.2, I'd resign. - Peter Honeyman If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, it's safe to surf this beach. If I should return in my absence, kindly detain me until I get back. If I wanted your opinion, I'd tell it to you. -Samuel Goldwyn If Lincoln were alive today he would be spinning in his grave. -G. Ford If MS/DOS is the only operating system you're ever going to use, then the procedure is simple If a thousand people say a foolish thing, it remains a foolish thing. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. If anything can go wrong, it will. If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success. If at first you succeed, try to hide your astonishment. If bankers can count, why do they have eight windows and only four tellers? If butterflies had teeth like tigers they would never make it out of the hangar. If double-bubble inflation did occur, then the shadow world is exponentially uninteresting. If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation. If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. If ignorance were cornflakes, you'd be General Mills. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it doesn't matter, it does not matter. If it happens, it must be possible. If it isn't like TECO, it's not worth using. -Rae McLellan If it pours before seven, it has rained by eleven. If it were dangerous they would post a sign... If it's boring, turn it off. If it's gratitude you want, get a dog. -P. T. Barnum If it's not broken, don't fix it. If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well. If it's worth doing well, it's worth doing. If more is better then too much is just enough. If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time. If some day it should happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list, I've got a little list. If the "medium is the message" then the message of low-bandwidth timesharing is "blah". -- Alan Kay If the check is truly in the mail, it is surely made out to someone else. If the coin is heads up don't pick it up. If the experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. If the facts do not support the theory, they must be disposed of. If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it elect a new people? If the shoe fits, buy the other one, too. If there are any resources you need to get this job done, just let us know. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -Art Hoppe If they gave me a goldfish, I would cook it. -Feng Jicai If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same? If voting could change the system, it would be against the law. If we turn on the lights fast enough, we'll see what the dark looks like. If we'd all been living in California, we wouldn't have worked at ALL. If you ask how much it is, you can't afford it. If you can't find enough radiation at Ralph's, you can probably do without it. If you can't stand the heat, remove your clothing! If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -Harry S. Truman If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost. If you don't insist on correct answers, I can make it run as fast as you want. If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter how you get there. If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. If you don't pay attention to every little detail, you miss most of the jokes. If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. If you grab the bull by the horns, feathers will fly. If you have to lie to someone, it's their fault. If you have to think twice about it, you're wrong. If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class? If you know high class quality merchandise, you know this is CHEAP! If you start now you might finish on time. If you suspect a man, don't employ him. If you take the last cup, make a new pot. If you take the last pot, make a new cup. If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first. If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it. If you think it's hard going to the moon, you should try staying home. If you think last Tuesday was a drag, wait till you see what happens tomorrow! If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. K Thompson If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts. If you were able to count up to infinity I'll bet you would never get over it. If you're asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants. If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. If you're not apprehensive then you don't understand the situation. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. - E. Rutherford Ignore alien orders. Ignore previous fortune. Ignore the fatal errors. It's O.K. Il faut cultiver son jardins. -Voltaire Illegal Arbitrator - Line 23 Illegitimi non carborundum. Immanuel Kant but Kubla Khan. In Africa the tusks are too firmly rooted, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. In addition to a yes and a no, the universe contains a maybe. -D. Finkelstein In an evolving universe, who stands still moves backwards. In any society, the correct pronunciation is the dialect that has an army. In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout "Fire!". In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. In communism Man exploits Man. In capitalism it's the other way around. In comparison with the ancients, we stand like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants. -Bernard of Chartres In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. In nature there is immediate adjustment but no compulsion. -Chuang Chou In order to make an omelette, you have to break a few cooks. In rebus mathematicis errores quam minimi non sunt contemnendi. In the Unix tradition, vi is intended to be a small tool that does one thing well. In the future, all programmers will be able to use malloc. In the land of the blind the one-eyed man can see across the road and prove it. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the land of the one-eyed men, the blind have to wear glasses. In this world, truth can wait; she's used to it. Incest, like charity, begins at home. Insanity is always the best defense against boredom. Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. -N. Wirth Intermittent resolutions lack potency. -Robert Silverberg Into each life a little fallout must rain. -Baba Rebop It got to a point where I had to get a haircut or a violin. -F.D.Roosevelt It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. It is a very sad thing nowadays that there is so little useless information. It is absurd to deny the role of fantasy in even the strictest science. -Lenin It is bad luck to be superstitious. -Andrew W. Mathis It is better to have loved and lost -- much better. It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost. It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark. It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness, except at the Browns Ferry reactor. It is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven. -Milton It is better to wear out than to rust out. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. It is far better to vote for a loser than to elect one. It is far better to vote for a loser than to elect? It is fruitless to become lachrymal over precipitately departed lacteal fluid. It is hard to sit with the turkeys when you soar with the eagles. It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem. It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -Hawkwind It is the wise bird who builds her nest in a tree. It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. -Paul Newman It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you. It steam-engines when it becomes steam-engine time. -Charles Fort It takes approximately two minutes to reposition the continents from one geological era to another. It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. It works better if you plug it in. It would appear that even BTL employees put their pants on one leg at a time. It would be wise to cut expectations in half. It's 5 o'clock. Do you know where your files are? It's Your Environment -- Use It Up! It's a hardware problem. It's a sad woman who buys her own perfume. It's a small world, but I'd hate to have to paint it. It's a software problem. It's a useless but absolutely vital precaution. It's an empty head that wears a hairpiece. - Pauline Kael It's business doing pleasure with you. It's clever, but is it art? It's deja vu all over again. It's difficult to explain Kleenex to an aborigine. It's earlier than you think. It's funny how they work so well, even when they're not appropriate. It's hard to be humble when you're perfect. It's hard to be mellow when you bite your nails. It's hard to be mellow when you can't stand up. It's hard to love someone who looks down on you because your hands get bloody protecting him. It's just a silly native superstition. It's later than you think. It's lonely at the top, but it's lonelier at the bottom. It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either. -Boston Mayor Kevin White It's not a car, it's a Volkswagen. It's not cool enough for the eighties. It's not easy to play the clown when you've got to run the whole circus. It's not my fault -- it's a mechanical problem! It's not my fault! It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things. It's not reality that's important, it's how you perceive things. It's not the time between the takes that takes the time - it's changing your mind between the takes that takes the time. -Stage Dept. It's not the time it takes to take the takes that takes the time, it's the time it takes between the takes that takes the time. -S. Spielberg It's not the years, it's the mileage. It's only a game! It's simple, clean, it works, and you can get it right now. -Mike O'Dell It's some kind of instinct...This was an important place in their lives. It's the law: Use a pun, go to prism (for minor refractions of the law only!) It's the thought, if any, that counts! -Dick Grantges It's time to gearshift up from the crawl we've been in to a full trot. - Jack Scanlon It's worse than being at the theatre. Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today. Jesus Rodrigues has a 9-inch duck. Jesus saves, Moses invests, the Mongol Hoards, but only Buddha pays dividends. Join me and I will complete your training. Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. Just be glad you don't get all the government you pay for. -Will Rogers Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Justice for the poor is much less popular than revenge on the rich. Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. Ken Thompson can't beat Belle. So what? How fast can Seymour Cray add? Kids are always the only future the human race has. -William Saroyan Kill ugly radio! Klaatu barada nikto. Kleeneliness is next to Goedeliness. Label on a bottle of pills: "Do not take these pills if this label is missing" Lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction. Lando's not a system, he's a man. He's a gambler, scoundrel. You'd like him. Language is a virus from outer space. -William Burroughs. Language is all that separates us from the lower animals and the bureaucrats. Last login: Sat Aug 10 09:22:14 on ttym0 Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either. Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, `Hold, enough!' Leadership means taxes. Lest men suspect your tale untrue,/Keep probability in view. -John Gay (1727) Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday. Let no one unskilled in geometry enter here. -Plato Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Let sleeping wraiths lie. Let's just take this shortcut across this field. That bull doesn't see us. Let's look at the record. -Al Smith Li'l dollink, always fetful. Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. Life is a game: whoever dies with the most toys wins. Life is a giant shell and we're just processes. Life is a mystery -- love is a dancer. Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string. Life is hard but unjust. Life is just a bowl. Life is not for everyone. -M. O'Donoghue Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. Little girls have pretty curls, but I like Oreos. Little things come in small packages. Live forever, or die trying. Live long and perspire. Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper. Load average too high now (11.358253), please try later Local disks are our FORTRAN. -Warren Teitelman Long computations which yield 0 (zero) are probably all for naught. Longevity is an optimist's heaven and a pessimist's hell. Look after the molehills and the mountains will look after themselves. Look on my works, oh ye mighty, and giggle. Lord? We don't have no lord. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. Lose a few, lose a few. Losing your servo track is just God's way of saying `BOOGA, BOOGA!' Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Love is a many gendered thing. Love is in the offing, said the homicidal maniac. Love is only love, but money is forever. Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. Love, and do what thou wilt. Luchamos contra el Wombat, otra enemigo de la humanidad. -Frente Wombato de Liberacion Nacional Luke, don't give in to hate. That leads to the dark side. MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING Machne oprating at olny tn prcnt eficiency. Macro context switch under way, please do not log out! Make War, not Love: killing is fun too. -Nicholas von Hoffman Make a list of all the facts you know about the universe. Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it. -DM Ritchie Make use of whatever advanced technology is available Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. Making outside money using our computers has resulted in suspension. Making sense makes more sense than not making sense. -T. Duff Male tyrannosaurs may have used their diminutive front legs to titillate female partners, but this will not explain why they got so small. - Gould and Lewontin Man cannot live by bread alone: frequently, there must be beverage, too. Man cannot live by bread alone; he needs a little peanut butter on it. Man has created death. -William Butler Yeats Man is in doubt to deem himself a god or beast. -Alexander Pope Man is in session. Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self. Man's horizons are bounded by his vision. Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing. Many are called, few volunteer. Many are cold, but few are frozen. Many pages make a thick book. Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. Marriage is an attempt to change a night owl into a homing pigeon. Masterpieces make their own rules. May I have a large container of coffee? May the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits. May you live all the days of your life. May your rolling stone always grow grass that is greener underneath. Maybe I should have screwed up. - Ken Thompson Mcc may be slow and generate bad code, but it took a long time to develop. Medeis ageometretos eisito mou ten stegen. -Plato Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate. Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. -Dorothy Parker. Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples. Message will arrive in the mail. Destroy, before the FBI sees it. Micronics makes it simple. Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca. Military justice is to justice as military music is to music. -Clemenceau Military music is to music as military intelligence is to intelligence Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed interference. Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure. Money cannot buy happiness, but happiness will not buy groceries. Money is a terrible thing to follow but a charming thing to meet. Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots. Money may buy friendship but money can not buy love. Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/The Lord's anointed temple. -MacBeth Most users are within a 10 mile radius. Mr. President! We cannot allow ... a MINE-SHAFT GAP! Multi sunt vocati, pauci vero electi. Multilevel standards are like onions. They're smelly and make you cry a lot. -Ron Natalie My broker is E. F. Hutton, and E. F. Hutton says... My karma just ran over your dogma. My program is so jammed with clever tricks - GJ Holzmann My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world. NOT NOT NOT ALLOWED Naked is the best disguise. National security is the chief cause of national insecurity. Need a personal problem? Get a personal computer. - C. P. Killian Neither a borrower nor a lender be/For loan oft loses both itself and friend. Nembutal numbs it all, but I prefer alcohol. -Strummer/Jones Netnews is someone yelling "Anybody wanna buy a used car?" in a crowded theater. Never argue with a fool -- people might not know the difference. Never attribute to malice what can be found in scientific american, under computer recreations. Never buy a case of wine with eleven bottles. Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. Never eat anything bigger than your head. Never eat in a restaurant that rotates or is above the 10th floor. Never eat rutabaga on any day of the week that has a "y" in it. Never give a inch! Never hatchet your Counts before they chicken. Never lick a gift horse in the mouth. Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. Never stow away on a kamikaze plane. Never worry the boss unnecessarily. Don't tell him. New career ideas are worth pursuing. New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt. Niagara Falls is the second-biggest disappointment in a bride's life. -O. Wilde Niagara Falls is the wise bird who builds her nest in a chinese computer terminal! Niagara Falls would be much more impressive if it flowed the other way. - Oscar Wilde Nihilism means nothing to the dancing peasants. Nihilism should commence with oneself. No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail. No branch is better than its trunk. No directory No directory! Logging in with home=/ No good deed goes unpunished. -Clare Booth Luce. No jaggies! No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. No mistake is too small to be fixed, but first make sure it's a mistake. No news is good news. No note is too high to be taken down an octave. No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. No two ways about it, there are two sides to every story. No user jobs will be lost because of the crash. Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Nobody goes to the theatre unless suffering from acute bronchitis. Nobody is truly sane until he feels gratitude to the whole universe. Nobody knows anything, or if they do, they are careful to hide the fact. Nobody takes computer graphics seriously, even the guys that do it. -T. Duff Non serviam. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Not all the water in a rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king. Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on Sundays. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Nothing difficult is ever easy. -Steve Falco Nothing is as easy as it looks. Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. Nothing is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason. Nothing is true. Everything is permissible. -Hassan i Sabbah Nothing matters indeed, it's all in your mind... Nothing more certain than incertainties; Fortune is full of fresh variety: Constant in nothing but inconstancy. - Richard Barnfield. Nothing of interest ever happened on this day. Nothing works. No one knows why. And some jerk is talking French. -Bob Lied Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer in Northern California. Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York. O brave new world,/That has such people in't! O dear Ophelia! I am ill at these numbers: I have not art to reckon my groans. O.T.O. wants you. OK, I think I understand. OS 360 -- Not uranium. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. Of all things man is the measure. -Protagoras Oh, don't the days seem lank and long, when all goes right and nothing goes wrong. Oh, so there you are! Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement. Old age -- it's the only disease that you don't look forward to being cured of. Omnibus ex nihil ducendis sufficit unum. -Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz On a clear disk you can seek forever. Once TOAD is operational, how frequently would you expect to access TOAD? One Bell System -- it sometimes works. One Bell System -- it works. One bad apple can ruin a snake. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. -H. L. Mencken One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. One man's Mede is another man's Persian. One picture is worth 128k words. One scythe fits all. One starts life with a swelled head and ends with swelled feet. -Ezra Pound Only %d shopping days until Christmas. Only God can make a random selection. Only someone with nothing to be sorry for smiles back at the rear of an elephant. Only two things are infinite: the universe and human ignorance. -A. Einstein Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, or is that ontology recapitulates philology? Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. -Haeckel Ontogeny rehashes phylogeny. Ooh, Andy Tannenbaum? His netnews is SO derivative. Options can cause undesirable operations, so it is important to ensure they are set up properly. Order ignorant aliens. Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails. Otto's too so-so to toss soot, too sot to toot SOSs. So? Our ancestors may have been ignorant, but they were not stupid. Our sponsor thought it was for ADA. In fact it was for C. Our vision will speed up time, eventually deleting it. -Alexander Schure Out of memory saving lines for undo - try using ed. Out of the mouths of babes comes semi-digested Pablum. Overall there is a smell of fried onions. (fnord) Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. Panem et circenses, that's what the public wants. Paranoia doesn't mean the whole world really isn't out to get you. Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway oh, God, I'm so depressed... Passing over a black hole temporarily disables ship. Password: People get it into their heads that this is a democracy. Well it isn't. -gwl People never go there anymore; it's too crowded. -Yogi Berra People really shouldn't spread gossip, but what else is it good for? People tend to congregate in the back of the church and the front of the bus. People usually do what other people have done before them. People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten. -Jon Bentley People who take cat naps don't usually sleep in a cat's cradle. People who think they know everything greatly annoy us who do. People will buy anything that's one to a customer. Per omnia saecula vombatidae. Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things. Perfect love casteth out fear. Person who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought. Personality is a flimsy thing on which to build an art. -John Cage Philosophy is the Rule of Life. Philosopy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Physician, bill thyself. Planning dooms most projects. Please log off, the computer is out to get in your room and drink? Please log off, the computer is out to lunch. Please take note: Please to remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot. Plunk your magic twanger, froggy. Pluralites non est punenda sine necessitate. -Wm. of Occam Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Populus vult decipi. Pornography is in the groin of the beholder. -William F. Buckley Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Post proelium, praemium. Pregnant ropuli. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -D. E. Knuth Preserve wildlife -- pickle a squirrel today! Prevention makes the heart grow fonder. Primate behaviour only changes under the impact of new technology. Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -Don Marquis Programming and puddings demand consistency. Progress is made on alternate Fridays. Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword. Proofreading is more effective after publication. Proper planning includes admitting that your plan may not work. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity. Put not your trust in money, but your money in trust. Put your mouth where your mouth is. Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. Quantum mechanics do it with uncertainty. Questions are a burden for others; answers are a prison for oneself. Rain before sunset, dark by midnight. Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. Reach out and grep someone. Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. Real programmers can't say `lint' without adding `hbaxcu' -Wm Leler Real programs don't eat cache. Reality is for those who can't handle drugs. Reality is good for you...in small doses. Reality is silly-putty. -Paul Krassner Reality seems harsher in the early morning. Reason establishes the foundation of faith. Faith compensates the error of reason. Reason is a universal instrument which can serve on any kind of occasion. -Descartes Reform always comes from below. No man with four aces asks for a new deal. Regnant populi. Rei panta. Religions revolve madly around sexual questions. Remember that "almost" means "not". Remember the Unknown Buffalo. Remember when you asked me to tell you when you were being inconsiderate? Remember why the good Lord made your eyes -- Pla-gi-a-rize! -Tom Lehrer Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. Remember, even if you win the rat race -- you're still a rat. Render unto Caesar if line 54 is larger than line 62. Repetition is a form of change. -B. Eno Research is a great career: you get paid for looking, regardless of results. Respect you in the morning?! Hell, I don't even respect you now. Restrain your octopus! The canoes are going fishing tomorrow. Ring around the collar. Ring the bell; close the book; quench the candle. Ritual is to the inner sciences what experiment is to the outer sciences. -Leary Rog-O-Matic callidus est. Rog-O-Matic perditus est. Rog-O-Matic's not expert enough. It could handle rogue, but it couldn't handle More. Rotten wood can not be carved -Confucius (Analects, Book 5, Ch. 9) Round numbers are always false. -Samuel Johnson (c. 1750) Rule 5 Violation SCCS: the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out. Ken Thompson SYS ERROR 0 - no error detected Sailors in ships, sail on! Even while we died, others rode out the storm. Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone. Save a forest -- eat a beaver! Save the dot files! Save yourself! Reboot in 5 seconds! Say "no" to long-sleeved shirts!! Support your right to bare arms! Say your prayers, you're going to Zen heaven. Schroedinger might have been here. Schroedinger's cat is sitting on Heisenberg's shoulder and they are both laughing at you. Scintillate, scintillate, aster minific. Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. Secret mail has arrived. See that ocean -- that used to be some ocean. -Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Self denial is better than self degradation. Sell everything. Market top has been reached. -Joseph Granville Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Señor, if you hurry from here, you will wait longer there. -Mexico taxi driver Sex with someone you don't love is just gymnastics--and I hate exercise. -John Derek Shadows slick as eels slither through. Share your happiness with others today. She canna take much more o' this, Mr. Spock. Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up! Push Down! Byte, byte, byte! Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change. Si nummi immunis. Silver is pure. It's been a symbol of justice and purity since the year of the sun. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Sink or Swim with Teddy! Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. Smile ... tomorrow will be worse. Smoked carp is terrible unless you're out of smoked salmon. Smooth rotation butters no parsnips. -J. W. Tukey Snatch the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper. Snob intellectual bachelors can't have fun in San Antonio. -Ted Nelson Snoopy has fleas. Snow Day -- stay home. So long as radicals honor theory over facts, they will continue to dismantle their successes. So narrow minded is the boss that he has to stack his ideas vertically. Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. Soft soap often has a high percentage of lye in it. -- Salada Tea Solve et coagule. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed. -- Francis Bacon Some day this war's gonna end. Some men are discovered; others are found out. Some of us feel that there is a loss of scholarship here, and we're not too happy about it. -Irvin Lustig Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books. Some things are better left unsaid. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -Sigmund Freud Sometimes it seems to me that men are children grown incompetent. -Carl Whitaker Sometimes you've gotta give it all you've got, because it just isn't enough. Soon you will be sitting on top of the world. Sooner or later everybody's gotta pay their tab. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted. Space travel is utter bilge. -Sir Richard Van Der Riet Wolley Spare no expense to save money on this one. -Samuel Goldwyn Speaking of poison, I'll see that you get some fresh breakfast immediately. Specialization is for insects. -Robt. A. Heinlein Spend extra time on hobby. Get plenty of rolling papers. Split a stick of wood, and the Christ is there, too. Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. Stack overflow in crawlout. User environment re-initialized. (FATAL$) Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down. Status: R Stay away from flying saucers today. Stay away from hurricanes for a while. Stereotypes are one of the worst things in the world. -miteddie!nessus Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a laser beam is another matter. Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you. Stop searching forever. Happiness is unattainable. Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you. Stop worrying, you'll never get out of this world alive. Subject: Re: Re: Clar ... HUMBUG! - Wrongthink st - (nf) Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring. Sum quod eris. Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 1.1 (IAS) #1: Tue Jan 29 01:25:15 PST 1985 Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. - Joseph Addison. Sure [Somoza]'s a son-of-a-bitch, but he's OUR son-of-a-bitch. -F.D. Roosevelt Surprise due today. Also the rent. Surprise your boss. Get to work on time. Surveillance should precede salientation. System down Tues. am for COBOL compiler installation. System going down at 1:45 this afternoon for disk crash. System going down for 5 minutes -- back up in barrels. System going down for 5 minutes -- back up in half an hour. System going down in 5 minutes. System might crash at any moment. System went down at Fri Dec 13 21:54:56 1901 TERROR IN THE OUTPUT FILE A A TNT allows students the freedom to make mistakes. TSO -- it may be slow, but it's hard to use. Tai Chi is self-defense for people on Quaaludes. Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. Take care of your peonies and the dahlias will take care of themselves. Te ayudare a recorder la cantidad a indoctos si releesme bien. Teach it ... phenomenology. Technological unemployment is total today -- 300 years ago we were all farmers. Tell the girls to slice the ham thin. Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing. Terminals at home are always in the bedroom. Thank God I'm an atheist. -Aleister Crowley Thank you for choosing UNIX -- batteries not included, some assembly required. That goes against the laws of Physics. That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself. That which does not kill me makes me stronger. That which does not kill me missed. That which is above is in that which is below. That's as American as pie charts. That's the nice thing about standards -- there's so many to choose from. -trb The $SIGNON command is a risky practice. The 3B2 Model 100 - the first machine with cat -v in ROM! The Angels want to wear my red shoes. The Beatles? Isn't that Paul McCartney's old band? The Blit is a nice terminal, but it runs emacs. The Constitution gives us freedom of religion, not freedom from religion -R Reagan The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am. The Force is strong with this one. The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet. The Government urges you to remain calm. The Inuit have dozens of words for snow, so why do the Dutch only have one word for rain? The Italians make money out of funding their own deficit. The Luddites always lose. Always. The Moral Majority are the people our ancestors came from Europe to escape. The PIXAR -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure. The SUN really is a hunk of junk. - Tom Duff The Tao which can be talked about is not the Tao. -Lao Tzu The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad. The UFO and the BVM seem to be the same phenomenon. -Jacques Vallee The UNIX system is harder to use than a toaster. -Kaare Christian The United States Army: 194 years of proud service, unhampered by progress. The aim of existence is to have clean ideas, change them like shirts. The aim of existence is to offer resistance to the flow of time. The answer you seek is in an envelope. The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive. The average legislator is somewhere nearly all the time. -Herb Nore The barge was in my blind spot. - Peter Hobson, Cambridge cox The best prophet of the future is the past. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life. The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. - S. Hawking The check is in the mail. The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. The connotation depends on the beacon. - Mark V. Shaney The contrary of a compound is the aggregate of the contraries of the components. - De Morgan The contrary of an aggregate is the compound of the contraries of the aggregates. - De Morgan The coroner gave you a clean bill of health. The darkest hour is just before the storm. The dawning of the Information Age is bringing about dramatic changes in the fundamental fabric of our civilization. - AA Penzias The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous. The difference between a thief and the IRS is that the thief doesn't audit you afterwards. The difficult we gave up on yesterday, the impossible we are giving up on now. The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night before. The early worm gets the bird. The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier. The empty fist always makes the deepest wound. The end is closer than you think. The end justifies the meanness. The enemy is ignorance [our own]. -Ezra Pound The eyes believe themselves, the ears believe other people. The fear of the lord was discovered before vitamins. The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever. The first step in fixing something is getting it to break. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Henry VI, part II. The fit between the world and the human symbols describing it is never perfect. The following file systems are due for backup at this time: The fruits of impatience are bitter. The function of the sun is not to help the cabbages along. - Flaubert The further you get, the better it looks. The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.) The future isn't what it used to be. -Arthur C. Clarke The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. The hardest part of raising children is teaching them to ride bicycles. The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon by the bee. The human brain is not a pretty sight. The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein - it rejects it. -Peter Medawar The invention of the multiple-choice exam was the death blow to competent writing. The judge's jokes are always funny. The ketchup of sorrow is better than the mustard of happiness. The last twenty-nine days of the month are the worst. -Nicola Tesla The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep. The love of money is the mucilage of many a tragic friendship -Stuart McMillan The man of knowledge can see several things at once. The map is not the territory. -A. E. Van Vogt, in World of Null-A The measure of the rigor of a science is the index of its ability to predict. The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are careful to hide the fact. The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are pronounced "o". The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse. The more complicated the mind, the more simple the play. The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again. The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. The move of bambam functionality to the new AP bugs is re-scheduled to Friday night The nervous system sees no color, feels no pain. -T. Leary The null string has always been a locksmith. -Albert Einstein The null string has always been a productive source of off-by-0 errors. The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. - 2nd Edition UNIX manual The number of approved [COBOL] subsets has been reduced from 104,976 to 54. - JM Triance The official state animal of New York is the cabbie. The official state tree of North Dakota is the telephone pole? The one interesting fact about the Diplodocus is that the accent is on the second syllable. The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race. The only one who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. The only people who listen to both sides of an argument are the neighbors. The only sure things in life are net.suicide and net.taxes. The only thing cheaper than hardware is talk. The only way out of a circle is through the center. The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings. The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. The pale companion is not for our pomp. The pearl the squirrel the girl hit bit split. The planes in Spain fall mainly in the rain. The play's the thing/Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. The plural of spouse is spice. The polhode rolls without slipping on the herpolhode lying in the invariable plane. The problem with a just economy is, who runs the Bureau of Economic Justice? The prudent man does not hold his breath. The reason Swedes put little o's over some A's is that ontology recapitulates philology. The reason Swedes put little o's over some A's is that they are pronounced "o". The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. The rich man has his motor car, His country and his town estate. He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. - F. P. Adams The screen rectangle must be charged with emotion. Hitchcock The sheep - symbolic creature of docility, sacrifice and stupidity. The shorter the line, the slower it moves. The shortest distance between two points is off the wall. The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -Noelie Altito The skeletons in the cupboard will all come out in the wash. The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. The stapler runs out of staples only while you are trying to staple something. The sterile pleasure of being right tends to get stale in the course of a lifetime. EW Dijkstra The strength of a nation lies in the integrity of its homes. -Confucius The stylus is more potent than the claymore. The sword he sang a song of death/But could not make the sickle yield. -Blake The thing about Chinatown is, you can never be sure of anything down there. The three laws of physics: f=ma; things fall down; you can't push a rope. The tide of change approaches. The time is right to make new friends. The unexamined life is not worth examining. The universe is laughing behind your back. The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget that he is a blockhead. The voice of the people is odd,/It is, and it is not, the voice of God. -Pope The wheels of justice grind slow but fine. The whole UNIX operating system was ripped off electronically. The whole UNIX operating system whose documentation fits in a chinese computer terminal! The wise shepherdess never trusts her flock to a smiling wolf. The world cannot be understood from a single point of view. -Eleanor Roosevelt The world ended yesterday-this is only a dream! The world ended yesterday-why are you still here? The world is a conspiracy of the unthinking against the unwitting. The world is all that is the case. -Wittgenstein The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books! Them that dishes it out need not fall over every time someone blows hard. There are more old drunkards than old doctors. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. There are no color bars in Cuba. There are only three kinds of proof: induction, exhaustion, and intimidation. There are two kinds of people in the world -- those who are, and those who aren't. There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself killed. There is a fly on your nose. There is a person with a shovel behind you ready to crack open your skull! There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. - Julius Caesar IV.iii.217 There is a world in which this sentence ends with a different word. There is no bottom to worse. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. There is no gift like the present. There is no governor anywhere; you are absolutely free. There is no language in our lungs. There is no present like the TIMES. There is no present like time. There is no sin except stupidity. - Oscar Wilde There is no time like the pleasant. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax. There must be a minimum of two responsible people per subdomain. - Mark Horton There used to be men and women. Now there are men and persons. There was a phone call for you. There'll always be an England - if not it would be necessary to invent one. There's a broken light for every heart on Broadway. There's a difference between ethical people and nice people. You can't trust nice people. There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will. There's a sucker reborn every minute. There's always one more bug. There's got to be more to life than compile-and-go. There's insanity in my family; starting with me, tonight. There's no place like home. There's no room in the drug world for amateurs. There's something in this universe that I don't understand. -T. Duff These calculations even schoolchildren can master in three-four days. -Maimonides These numbers DO NOT appear to belong to anybody: 315 323 372 375 602 765 772 903 914 These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world. - Joseph Addison. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... -- last words of Gen. John Sedgewick They laughed at Copernicus; they laughed at Galileo; they laughed at Bozo the Clown. They live happiest who have forgiven most. They were easy to tell apart: the good Kirk was played by William Shatner and the evil one by Gavin McLeod. They were easy to tell apart: the good Kirk wore cottons and wools and the evil Kirk wore nylons and polyesters. They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid! Things always look darkest just before they go totally black. -Col. Hannibal Smith Things are more like they are now then they have ever been before. -Dwight D Eisenhower Things are more like they used to be than they are new. Things are more like they used to be than they are now. Things are only as bad as they are and can only get worse if they do! Things that go without saying go even better if they are said. -Talleyrand Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face. Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer crashes. This *means* something. -R. Neary This algorithm is prevented in the style of Dijkstra's guarded cowhands. This fortune intentionally not included. This fortune is inoperative. Please try another. This fortune is self-explanatory, once you understand it. This fortune left blank intentionally. This fortune was not meant for you. This is Emmanuel. I got him from Emmanuel Training School. He's Emmanuel like. This is a full standard Kernighan & Ritchie C compiler. This machine does not exist! Boy am I confused! This refutation can only be refuted by a proof. - van den Herik 1985 This space available. Call 686-7600 for details. This statement is a lie. This system hasn't crashed in ages. This terminal is not for your use, please log off! This time for sure! This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it. This will hurt me more than it hurts you. Thos who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Those who can't write, write manuals. Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate. Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Those who in quarrels interpose must often wipe a bloody nose. Those who talk don't know. Those who don't talk, know. Thrashing is just before they go totally black. -Col. Hannibal Smith Thrashing is just virtual crashing. Three shoes do not a hat make. Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. -Mark Twain Time ends here, please go back the way you came. Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. Time is nature's way of making more anarchy. Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Time is three eyes and eight elbows. Timesharing just doesn't work. -K. Thompson, 1982. To be clear is professional; not to be clear is unprofessional. -- Sir Ernest Gowers To be is to be related. To be or not to be, those are the parameters. To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the competent. To cross again is not to cross. To err is human, to forgive is not libary [sic] policy. quoted by Herb Caen To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer! To err is human; that's why I'm comfortable around Gods. To express e, remember to memorize a sentence to simplify this. To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. To live without clocks is to live forever. -RLS To make an enemy, do someone a favor. To make an omelette, you have to paint it. To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth. To possess another language is to possess another soul. -Charles V Today is a good day to bribe a high-ranking public official. Today is the first day of the rest of your miserable life. Today is yesterday's tomorrow. Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles -- Sunsweet marches on. Together we must rise to higher and higher platitudes. -Richard Daley Together we will rule the galaxy, father and son. Luke...it is your destiny. Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree. Too Much. Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL. -Mae West Torque is cheap. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in any immediate danger of having just committed suicide! Toutes choses sont dites deja, mais comme personne n'ecoute, il faut toujours recommencer. Transformation is invested with the mysterious and the painful. Travel important today; Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow. Tres sabios hubo en el mundo, Adan, Solomom y Raymundo. Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level. Troubles are like babies; they only grow by nursing. Trust Me. Trust him, but still keep your eyes open. Truth is only skin deep. Truth is the ultimate weapon; fortunately no one has perfected it yet. - Ken Ellis Truth will be out this morning. (Which may really mess things up.) Try `stty 0' -- it works much better. Try a new system or a different approach. Try again Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today. Try to divide your time evenly to keep others happy. Tu aideras a rappeler ta quantite a beaucoup de docteurs amis. Turning the other cheek merely ensures two bruised cheeks. Two fish in the sky are worth more than a bird in the sea. Two heads are better than a bath and a half. Two wrongs don't make a right. Two Wrights make airplanes. U.S. out of OAKLAND! UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. UNIX acts as an equalizer of the hardware playing field. J. Scanlon Unbidden guests/Are often welcomest when they are gone. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Unemployment is not a disease; so it has no `cure.' Unix is the only significant operating system whose documentation fits in a student's briefcase. -John Lions (Fixed in 4.1BSD) Unix never says `please.' -- Rob Pike Unix soit qui mal y pense. Unix: from now on, consider it dead. -Mike O'Dell Unknown Jerome's -- Dorothy's desk -- $.25 while they last!! Using 4.2 in this hospital is a great idea. Usura contra naturum est. Usus, Quen penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi. -Horace VAX/VMS -- Software for the 60's. VAX/VMS is like a nightmare about RSX. Veni, vidi, maeni, mo, cacha tigrem baedas to, iffi hollers, ledem go, veni, vidi, maeni, mo. Versatility is one of your outstanding traits. Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars. Vigilia pretium libertatis. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvador Hardin Viva Nuestra Señora Guadalupe y jueron gubernacion mala. -Father Hidalgo Vivaldi did not write 600 concerti grossi. He wrote the same one 600 times. -Stravinski Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit. Vote anarchist. Vox populi, vox Dei. -Alcuin WAR IS PEACE. INFORMATION IS SLAVERY. OUR FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS. Warning: I brake for no apparent reason. Warning: perch lorethylene may harm plastic Warning: this fortune may change your life. Wars do not log out! Waste not, get your budget cut next year. Wasting time is an important part of living. Watch out for quantum ducks: Quark! Quark! We aim to please, but our aim is bad. We are experiencing network trouble -- do not adjust your illegal descrambler. We are faced with an insurmountable opportunity. -W. Kelley We are not in any immediate danger of having solutions that exceed the needs. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -von Braun We continue to overlook the fact that work has become a leisure activity. We did it for nothing, we did it in an hour, and the whole thing worked. We don't care, we don't have to-- we used to be the phone company. We don't know half of what we know. We don't need a standard; Kernighan & Ritchie completely defines the language. We haul ours to kick theirs. We have a really challenging assignment for you. We have lost our little Hanner in a very painful manner. - Max Adeler. We have met the enemy, and he is us. -Walt Kelly We have the finest politicians money can buy. We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -Franklin We never stand still longer than it takes to have an argument. We offer every assistance short of actual help. We place no reliance/on Virgin or pigeon;/Our method is science,/Our aim is religion. -Aleister Crowley We regard matrimony as a sort of friendship recognized by the police. We retard what we cannot repel, we palliate what we cannot cure. -Johnson We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. -S. Butler We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. -K. Gibran We should acknowledge the 10000-year sheep heritage of mankind. - Judge Clyde Burch. We try harder, they do better. We use it but we do not love it. -Goethe We want no foreign rulers - fight the metric system. We won't need reservations. We would like to apologize for the following announcement: We'll burn that bridge when we come to it... We're going up there this weekend and I'm gonna get so roaring, stinkin', no-good drunk I won't be able to see. - mechanic in "The Blob". We're scientists. We have to do things we hate -- that even sicken us. We're too close to System Test. We've lost 4 crays to the open environment. Welcome to the working week. Well, the handwriting is on the Titanic, why not go gentle into that good night? Well, the handwriting is on the floor. -Joe E. Lewis Well, we had Chinese food again for lunch. What I like about scientists is that they are a team, so that one need not know their names. -J Wilmot What I tell you three times is true. -The Hunting of the Snark. What did you throw that book I wanted to be read to out of about Down Under out for? What distinguishes good software from poor software is customer satisfaction. -Bob Yacobellis What do you call a half-dozen Indians with Asian flu? Six sick Sikhs (sic). What do you mean the 8080 & the 6502 are incompatible? They're both NMOS! What does it mean if there is no fortune for you? What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. What good are the games if you ain't got the power? What good is someone who can walk on water if you can't follow in his footsteps? What have you done for Vic lately? What if I go to New York and can't trust a menu? What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -Thomas Hewitt Key What is now proved was once only imagined. -William Blake What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -Peter S. Beagle What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. What's it all about? We're all tools. Life's just a crock. What's the point to combing your hair when it's grey and thinning? What's wrong with plan9? (...) I see there is a problem almost in every piece of plan9 code. - 9fans When all else fails, read the instructions. When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. When an Okie moves to California, he raises the IQ of both states. -Will Rogers When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it's not there for the sack races. When better machines are built, greg will break them. When better machines are built, jks will break them, and td will bitch about it. When bigger machines are built, scj will saturate them. When does later become never? When everyone's out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking. When faced with the obvious -- look elsewhere. When faced with two evils, one asks why only two? When four sit to conspire, three are government agents, and the other a fool. When in doubt, lead trump. When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles; scream and shout. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. When more and more people are out of work unemployment will result. -Calvin Coolidge. When the Lord gets ready, you got to move. When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. When the going gets tough, the tough hold meetings. When the map and the terrain disagree, trust the terrain. -Swiss army aphorism When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it. When time permits, your personal life will be exciting. When traveling with a herd of elephants, don't be first to lie down and rest. When you are over the hill, you pick up speed. When you need a sledgehammer, the finest scalpel just won't do. When you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, then DO! Whenever I see his fingernails, I thank God I don't have to look at his feet. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I haven't tried before. -Mae West Whenever the Queen comes to New Zealand the Maori people suffer a disaster. Where do you think you are, Civilization? Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. -Wittgenstein While I see many hoof-marks going in, I see none coming out. - Aesop. Who can worry about a super-hero who vanishes when you change channels? Who is W. O. Baker, and why is he saying those terrible things about me? Who is the slayer, who the slain? Speak... -Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Who knows if there are any answers? -Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Who needs companionship when you can sit alone in your room and drink? Who ordered that? -I.I. Rabi on the discovery of the muon Who's afraid of Louisa May Alcott? Whom the gods must destroy they first must drive insane. Why be a second rate Ravel when you can be a first rate Gershwin? Why do they have this marked "Danger, do not touch"? Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3D movies with. Why don't we store the blank punch cards on disk, and get rid of all those boxes. Why is it called a stream I/O system when the data flows both ways? Why polish the corners off a sphere in a roomful of cubes? Why worry about tomorrow, when today is so far off? Will nobody help the widow's son? With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. With redeeming social value like yours, no wonder you're obscene. With the wind in the east I can tell an eagle from a hammer. With/Without -- and who denies it's what the fighting's all about? Without alkaloids, life itself would be impossible. Wombat omnia vincet. Wombs not bombs Women seldom show dimples to guys who have pimples. Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. Words are the voice of the heart. Words must be weighed, not counted. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. -C.N. Parkinson Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Y drag goch yr y gchwyn! Yamata wasami shuza. Yea, from the table of my memory/I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. Yes, the red switch. Yesterday's sensation is today's calibration and tomorrow's background. -Valentine Telegdi Yogsothoth Neblod Zin. You always think you know what you're doing, but you're too slick for your own good. You are going to have a new love affair. You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. You are original and creative. You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity. You auto buy now. You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive. You can get HELP any time you are using TEACH by returning to the command state and typing "S 160". You can lead a horticulture but you cannot make her think. - Dorothy Parker You can observe a lot just by watching. -Yogi Berra You can tell a man by the company that keeps him. You can't beat the bugs. You can't build a bomb at 300 baud. You can't capitalize your cake and expense it too. You can't comb a hairy ball smooth. You can't fall off the floor. You can't forward backward. - Dave Nowitz You can't go home again, unless you set $HOME You can't have everything -- where would you put it? You can't miss it. You can't teach a dead dog new tricks. You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game. You can't win. But there are alternatives to fighting. You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it. You cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels. You cannot cross a chasm in two steps. You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. You cook it, you sell it. You dialed 5483 You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy. You don't have to play tennis any more, or talk to anyone who does. You don't really want to know what the future holds for you. You had mail. You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself. You have been selected for a secret mission. You have been transfixed by the gaze of the Edlund.--More-- You have bills. You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business. You have made an excellent hit on the UNIX.--More-- You have mail. You have personal talents that are attractive to others. Be sure to use them. You have plate mail. You have slowmail. You have snails. You have splint mail. You have taken yourself too seriously. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. You know, Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. You know, you never know. You look strong enough to pull the ears off a Gundark! You make the megabucks, I make the nanobucks...it's YOUR problem. You may be recognized soon. Hide. You may enjoy the infamous PEOPLExpress snack pack for one dollar. You may have a friend at the Chase Manhattan but at our bank you have meshpocheh! You might have mail. You need not worry about your future - it's going to be rotten. You never know what you don't know, you know? You now have Asian Flu. You press the button, and we'll do the rest. You remind me of a TV show, but that's all right: I watch it anyway. You scream and you leap. You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider. You should go home. You tend to be shy when undressing outdoors. You want it bad, you'll get it bad. You weren't here so we did it anyway. You will attend a party where strange customs prevail. You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself. You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old. You will be surprised by a loud noise. You will feel hungry again in another hour. You will get a better gorilla effect if you use as big a piece of paper as possible. You will make a small sum by investing in a business project. You will make a small sum disappear by investing in a business project. You will make many changes before settling satisfactorily. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You will step on the night soil of many countries. You win some, you lose some, and some go into extra innings. You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry. You'll just have to sleep faster tonight. You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days. You're so bossy you ought to be milked before you come home at night. You're so ugly you couldn't even get a better mouse. You're so ugly you couldn't even get a date with an automated bank teller. You've always got the option of having just committed suicide! You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture. Your First Amendment ends where the next person's Bill of Rights begins. P. Michael Guba Your best dreams may not come true; but then neither will your worst dreams. Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize. Your editor doesn't always know best. Your emotional nature is strong and sensitive Your empty file directory has been deleted. Your intuition is excellent but another viewpoint could be helpful. Your login has been changed. Your love life will be happy and harmonious. Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true. Your opponent wouldn't fight if he didn't think he had a chance. Your password is pitifully obvious. Your present plans are going to succeed. Your supervisor is thinking about you. Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true. Zero is greater than minus zero, but don't ask by how much. -6600 ref. manual `By the way, microcode is no big deal. You can emulate it in random logic.' `Compared to academic politics, political politics is a nice, clean game.' -S. I. Hayakawa, SF Examiner 4/23/84 `Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.' `He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes...' `I saw it with my own eyes' means you wanted to see it. `Otto' spelled inside out is `toot.' `Qvid me anxivs svm?' `She read her boyfriend's mind, and they're no longer going together,' Mrs. Resch added. `The time (6:39 pm) has come,' the Walrus said, `to talk of many things...' `The time has come,' the Walrus said, `to talk of many things...' `We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.' ``I'm a hugger, I'm a tactile politician,'' Turner said. `is false when preceded by its quotation' is false when preceded by its quotation. `is not a sentence' is not a sentence. awk: Usage: awk [-f source | 'cmds'] [files]; record number 3.55646e-311 awk: illegal statement 206620 bad input char: .Ppm{=P!*@)Z9oFPp|*?)Z9pv9i%Su$^J)48%K_e239GM#ffoq!!!"!Mp#V6N\H8uEgdXbP\[7j1&PJz!X76!4BA}5!!!!!"syui!!!"!Mp#V6P\Scb?p8`;!4lf& beware of component 3730 cc: warning: -g disables -O chess tonight dis: invalid general addressing mode (e8); notify disassembler implementor f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr pgmng. f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb n tk wr f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd. fortune: Command not found. fortune: not found ftp> Globbing off. ftp> Globbing on. grep: RE error 41: No remembered search string. gt: warning -- bad idea to override alpha computation on matted-to-black target He who lives by the nit dies by the pick. invalid control line !!! itiprobe says hi jim is a nice editor except that it runs on the Blit. -- W. Joy no shell. non-positive output count: .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not not not Algol panic: trap pic: 5 X 58008 picture shrunk to 0.000603365 X 7 pm monday am reading symbols...done size: a.out: bad magic startup: system error -- directory deleted struct sleaziness { char *pleasure; int alchemically; }; too much. ucode rev x62 unknown troff command: We will interpret typing statements A@imp#M:@gr(s)# unseal: invalid length usend: /usr/asp/spool filesystem is exhausted uucp failed completely (11) uucp failed partially: 0 file(s) sent; 1 error(s) uuxqt cmd (rnews ) status (ucsfcgl!uucp 256) values of β will give rise to dom! warning: vector size unknown: p[i][j] means *(*(p+i)+j) There's no backspace in real life. - P.J.Weinberger When a musk ox goes faster than an amble, he has formed an intention. Verb is a noun. Verb is not a verb. Verb is not a verb, unless it's verbed. Version 8 Unix style Ritchie streams. Space shuttle experience is more common than C++ CA002 - [CAL] ASSEMBLY TIME: 0.000000 CPU SECONDS Within her left armpit only the fish called raawaru are there. In her right armpit, snapper only are the fish of that place. In days of yore, the crab and the crayfish lived in the forest. "C" is as portable as Stonehedge!! Any mail routed through "emacs" will probably fail without benefit of a bounce-back. Although the moon is only 1/100 the size of the earth, it is much further away. Never walk across a river that has an average depth of four feet. chdir: ?I/O error: `I/O error' ON SATURDAY SUPERMAN WILL BE UNAVAILABLE FOR A MAJOR HARDWARE RECONFIGURATION 03:23:33 0.0017 USER CLOSE CALLS - 8 It's clear that buzzwording is a factor. Dallas stands for culture with a 'K'. Huge directory ./src/port --call administrator CC119 - Dead code generated for vacuous expr. Resent-Comment: It's not OUR mailer. Maybe it's yours. * Method As described above, see details below. Take your hands off me. You don't have to give me all the gory details about how you got hepatitis. Who's the big cheese around here? What a surprise to find you here alone! Ouch! That feels good! How exciting to see you in traction again! Either I've been missing something, or nothing has been going on. You crossed my mind, but you didn't stay there. Should you die, I'd go mad so I could talk to you all the time. If you'll take me where I want to go, I'll take you where you think we are. If snow is wet, what is light? If your intentions are really good, I'll never understand them. Whatever happens, happens because it must. Get out, and take your mucus with you. I wanna lick the syrup off your hotcakes. I've got you under my skin; moreover, you've invaded my lymph. All I do is wait for your clumsy hands to make mincemeat of my apparel. More than just a book -- it's a major piece of torture. Great men are not always idiots. Unrequited love's a bore. -- Billie Holiday I wish people wouldn't say "Excuse me" when I WANT them to step on my feet. Life is a stage attacked by an idiot. No one wants to get into his grave still feeling frisky. -- Quentin Crisp (warning) data origin prohibits saving reloc bits ## wc is a Berkeley-ism, I think. Boost, don't knock NEW fsname = x, NEW volname = 49a126 -- DEL if wrong!! New Jersey has more people per capita than any other state.- Alan Karcher, D, NJ Significantly improved programming is only a reply card away. An AI journal without hype? That's like a hot air balloon without the hot air. UNIX is a trademark of AT&T in the U.S.A. and other countries. 554 Who are you? Anything is possible, and it usually does. - John Lions When you become a streetwalker, you don't write home very much. Few forgive without a fuss. Your contraption is better than mine. Very well, I'll slick your hair down myself. If Lucifer confesses, we'll let the rest of you go. pass 2 error:(file ) more than 100 args? in read: Error 0 There's a time and a place for spontaneity. I am a little more weird today than normal. - Andrew Hume You will be fortunate in everything you put your hands to. If nothing is pressing, putter around at this or that. Whatever arrangements you make are apt to be final. If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. There's going to be no serious problem after this. - Ken Thompson If you can stick your finger in it, you can hang from it. -Andrew Hume Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down. - Dennis Ritchie Thank you for using AT&T! Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead. Nepal premier won't resign. Surprises unlikely in Indiana. University of Rochester decides to keep name. In the long run, we are all dead. -Keynes Debate goes on over the nature of reality. Reach out and Boyer-Moore egrep someone. The solution is to increase the size of the manuals. - Mark V. Shaney `C' is for `core dumped.' redefinition: GLOBL 153352(gok(-118))[A7*16],gok(-116)/-937488177[R0*0] The electron: May it never be of use to anybody. - toast at the Cavendish Labs. Delivered-Automatically-By: the Magical Vacatioin Program Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans! Abstain wholly from laurel leaves. init: /dev/console: getty failing, sleeping 25% of all books from Bell Labs are written by Narain Gehani. Try to clear up differences with associates * W * :test$cstatic$chatypedef$st$int$$cnt$$unsigned$$unsigned$$char$$fla$char$$fil$$FILEo: 1: CC019 - Old-fashioned Initialization. Use '=' Instead. The atom of hydrogen contains about a thousand electrons. - J.J. Thomson, 1903 The unique power of UNIX (UPOU) is that vi includes awk. Yes, I want a drink. Alcoholic, of course; after the heavy sessions regarding quantum mechanics. * W * :../os/main.c: 64: CC042 - Instruction Will Cause Infinite Loop But issues remain in the AT&T Information Systems unit. The major problem is with sendmail. -Mark Horton Michigan House Fails to Override Veto of Medicaid Abortion Ban. The -v option increases user-friendliness. Every good joke has a short punch line. What is the origin of the Grand Canyon? A Scotsman lost a nickel. Sentence without verb. mh/toy/forbes deferred for sequence "":5:operands of ++ have incompatible types How do you explain that you changed your mind when you changed your hat? -Wm. Rogers The Devil Still Exists, Says Pope, Contradicting Polls When andrew asks you to type pwd for him, don't do it. Variable syntax. WARNING: You may see display garbage as a result of this action. WYSIWYG processing and a "vi"-like user interface - the best of both worlds! :-) strip: arno: bad magic There appears to be a paper jam, dammit p&P6. As Maine goes, so goes Vermont. -Alf Landon If you enter a village where everyone is lame, eventually you will start to limp. That's the way I got promoted, by eating everything. -pjw charge.c: 163: CC001 - Internal Compiler Error 69 . Debug: (412127)request for s1 but pseudo already in s3 In 1974 it was hard to find anyone who voted for Richard Nixon in 1972. Charlie don't hack. A strange event will change your idea of a good time. I just resent the newgroup messages. -Rick Adams I'm not easily impressed on Mondays. -Bruce Ellis Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -Jean Cocteau What he's asking you to do is only mildly disgusting -- try it, you might like it. The 1980's have quite appropriately been called the age of nail extension products. Wonder woman will be down Saturday, November 15th for hardware maintenance. Arbitrary makes free. Don't puting nathing in the line. Today is washing poison machine. Pittsburgh has become a kind of knowledge aircraft carrier, its "top-guns" scattered regularly around the planet. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. -Duchamp Per dollar, the cray is cheaper to maintain than the comets. -pjw The entire LC comp center will be shut down from 12/12 to 12/15 for annual maintenance on our Uninterruptable Power Supply. Hit the water! Hit the water! Try psychoacoustic imagery risk free! Hit me with your mid-point, she said meanly. The secretaries don't understand me. -Rob Pike I have a brain. -Kerry Harrigan System won't be available tomorrow 12/04 from 18:00 to 20:00 to install new cross compiler. Some logins deserve a message. Some don't. Yours does. Here's mine. God has spoken to me through chocolate fudge cake. Some day, when the universe has its heat death, they will look back and say `There are 12 Cray-2s'. -pjw When the music stops, the house of cards collapses and the emperor is found to be wearing no clothes. pwedit: error in input file in item 2305843009213693953 at field 1 Decreased cabin volume was insufficient to support human life. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Goethe elongated pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda (J41): 21/36 ambiguous hinges Total performance commercial carpet in convenient 18" squares A procedure can never use its own name in any way except to refer to itself. I'm a GEI kind of guy. - J Bentley eqn: illegal size of ignored near line 386, file part.5 Music is the can opener of the soul. -Henry Miller Robert Elz is the Mark Horton of the south. - P. Dick-Lauder 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 mp 1239 Jan 17 09:40 hite upper middle class IS AN INVALID DESTINATION. Rest frequently while shoveling snow. Never put snow on a frostbitten part. Eat more fish and less red meat. Drive away from a tornado at a right angle. Start off the day with a nourishing meal. Keep stairways clear of clutter. Discard medicine more than two years old. Stopping smoking slows emphysema's progress. Reduce speed in wet or foggy weather. Lengthen interval when the road is wet. Before physical activity warm up gradually. Don't eat a large meal before driving. Get help when lifting heavy objects. Don't use gasoline for cleaning. Put a smoke detector in your vacation cottage. Always read the labels on pesticides. To avoid falls watch where you step. To overcome stress do things that relax you. Popcorn is a good fiber food. Gray-tinted sunglasses reduce glare the most. Cut down on fatty, high-calorie foods. Use a salt substitute if blood pressure's high. Replace worn electrical cord without delay. Good passing rule: when in doubt, don't. Bicycle with the traffic flow. For relief submerge a bum in cold water. Always check fire exits in hotels and motels. Draw up a family fire-escape plan. Go with your kids when you go trick or treating. Take your car in for a tune-up. Carry a medical information card. Keep flammables away from space heaters. Buckle up even on short auto trips. Drive with the traffic not against the clock. Send your party guests home sober. Let me put it to you this way: computers are my business. - A.G. Hume Business is where the money is. - John Scully (CEO of Apple) Anything with the word 'generation' in it has to be wrong. - T.A. Cargill Today's technological mastery is tomorrow's obsolescence. 23582.0u 2166.7s 21404r mk A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -Paul Erdös SCAPEGOAT=rob sh: /dev/null restricted Do not smoke near an open drawer. - Bell Labs safety manual. Like Nero, the government fiddled while Rome burned--only it wasn't Rome. -- Jim Olson FYI: POWER DIP OCCURED YESTERDAY AT 21:55...IS YOUR 3B2 OK??? Don't ignore where the writer is in the draft. Hunting & Fishing licenses are free to the blind, handicapped or mentally retarded. mail: new message arrived Bad termcap entry Reverting to old tty driver... Thank you for using AT&T. The preferred steel for rodent protection is Type 304 stainless with a thickness of 3 mils. I'm TRYING to be a back end! - A Hume Stay clear of falling objects. 5/26: /unix2 out of pace please clean up!!!!! Redundant hardware is not cost-effective when compared to administration-mediation solutions. Warning: .lastlogin was altered since last login If it's Weinberger, I'm going with Ditzel. - rob If you have any questions, call Ralph Knag at MH x5291 Possession is nine-tenths of the privileged computer access code of ethics. Ignorance of the privileged computer access code of ethics is no excuse. It's not easy being Joan. -- rob Omit needless words that cause verbosity. rx: call to gauss failed: who_cares chown to owner: Not owner There are only 26 calls and most of them are trivial. In this country, everything loose rolls to the west coast. -T. Vanderslice, Apollo We have people doing a lot of fun stuff. That doesn't mean you don't wear suits. -R. Pampel, Apollo ROOT MODIFIED I don't have any courses for which I haven't written books. -Andy Tanenbaum Stop. (a0719) u wPM-US-Add a0712-a07rethan80mph.Thearrestingpatrolmanaskedhimifwantedtochecktheinstrumentusedtorecordhishighspeed. 07-21 0794 550 ians... User unknown: Not a typewriter DELTA backup is running, system response will be slightly degraded. tar: slg/duckstuff/desktop/UNIXpractice.drw/shortcuts.fdr/spaces?slashes.fdr/.@questions and comments.doc: file name too long The world should be full of Brian Kernighans and technical people. -J Macor If you keep an open mind, people will put a lot of garbage in it. A monoid is an associative monad; its underlying magma is a semigroup. 162 is unimplemented Norm does not protect against overflow. - cos(9.3) Content-Length: 0 In our system, /usr/include/sys is a hazard. -mvs Awk is certainly not perfect. - The Awk Book Areas of communication may be very busy at present. Gratuitously incomplete sentence. xyv: protocol fault for some string You are the sponsor for the account andrew (Andrew Hume). I am not worried about the real world. -Pamela Zave To 8 AM EDT /79: high 63 low 5, prob. precip. to 8 PM 0% to 8 AM 2147477332% Digital plans to offer a better solution, not a better product. - R. Glorioso, DEC I've got it! It's a triple helix! L. Pauling 1954. Incest more common than thought in United States RFC 822 delenda est. I'm not writing any more tapes, ever. -A. Hume. Subject: Please ignore extra headers I wouldn't take any advice, if I were you. The blue drinks are $5.75, the pink $8.00. You are unlucky enough to bump into all my rough edges. -A. Hume When you're getting fired at from both sides, you're in the middle of something. A vertical conference is a center-wide conference. - Steve Bellovin It is Unix. It is possible to overcome any number of these bogus features. -pjw "term/select.c", line 116: compiler error: bad bigsize: 010 Sorry, I don't know how to deal with your 'dumb' terminal. I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. -Baghavad Gita (quoted by Oppenheimer) The product classroom is marked pass-fail. An X server itself is not a big piece of software, only a few 100K. So, the next time something doesn't work, just push 'til it clicks. -Ag Primatic I have a different view of the world. -Andrew Hume. Show&Tell '87 For 40 days and 40 nights, you [Arthur Fadden] held the destiny of Australia in the hollow of your head. -Arthur Calwell The best weapon against breast cancer is early detention. Licorice is the liver of candy. -Michael O'Donoghue Al Schumann, that devil-may-care Intern from FSD is leaving Tom Houghton's Security Group. Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. -Eisenhower Is there no room for competition in the standards industry? -R. Hardin Now is not the time to be falling out of windows. -R Mclellan A universal thought dispenses with communication. ISDN is real and implementable. When a man celebrates his God, he changes his sex. The rays of the Sun are penholders which night gorges with ink. -- Reb Adal Warning: system out of share structures, using "root". Wed Dec 30 21:27:30 1987 EDT 5. Il riversamento = dump in inglese. E tutta colpa di Ken! Ken is an allem schuld! C'est la faute de Ken! Het is de schuld van Ken. I've got lots of bad examples. -td (void)vacuous(node); I'd rather have :rofix than const. -DM Ritchie To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has. - J Baudrillard unlinking v/v1971/272; already have /n/bowell/usr/games FAILING HW: DEC Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. -Quine Received: from Messages.6.0.CUILIB.3.41.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.holmes.andrew.cmu.edu.rt.r3 via MS.4.0.holmes.andrew.cmu.edu.rt_r3 The better your 4-wheel drive, the further out you get stuck. With Basic you just use a GOTO, with Pascal you have to indent 99% of the program halfway across the page! -Ted M. Young (A Basic programmer for 12 years) You know your apartment's small if you can't tell its position and speed simultaneously. ... Forking an allegro process requires only seconds... -V. Kelly Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction. One hundred humidities equal one rain. Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should. Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there. Thunder is a rich source of loudness. But an autopsy on the woman's headless body failed to reveal why she died. For ease of arithmetic we call 256 the largest index even though it is really 255, except at 255 itself. -- from a manual Only the future is certain; the past is always changing. -Polish proverb A victory is the greatest tragedy in the world, except a defeat. -Wellington A victory is the greatest tragedy in the world, except SunWindows. -Wellington If you don't have a sense of humor, it's just not funny. -Wavy Gravy Noalias must go. This is non-negotiable. -Dennis Ritchie We are currently experiencing all printing problems Due to illness, the /tbl design review is postponed until further notice. Due to technical problems, the BEST movie will be shown tommorrow. We say space is 3 dimensional because prison walls are 2 dimensional. -Hermann Weyl Two wrongs don't make a right; three lefts do. I've got plenty of inputs and outputs. I don't need the video. -Andrew Hume Cannot open phone book for <attrd>. Try a different company. con: connecting to coma We may be bureaucrats but we are not venal. -IRS Chief Counsel William Nelson Children can be substituted for adults in any case; however adults cannot be substituted for children. -Amtrak Education is basically useless, except for those rare cases when it's not really necessary. -Feynman Your 1 requests have been sent The book every man has inside him should usually stay there. - AJP Taylor X windows uses its hindbrain instead of its forebrain. -N Wilson Cryptogamous concretion never grows on mineral fragments that decline repose. The best place to find new dinosaurs is to look in basements. -Robert T. Bakker DUE TO DAMAGES, ALL SHREDDERS ARE OUT OF SERVICE. ?12 Machine check during machine check. Things greater than the same thing are greater than each other. -L. Carroll (Sylvie and Bruno) UX:cat: ERROR: usage: cat [-u][-s][-v[-t][-e]] file ...; TO FIX: refer to manual UX:cat:138 There are no known bugs on the old versions of grep, fgrep, or sed that will cause any instability in the operating systems. How do they know that flies carry diseases unknown to man? -BW Kernighan A fully declared Common Lisp program is as robust as assembly language. It's not who you know, but who you get drunk with, that counts. -P Dick-Lauder The knee is the Achilles heel of the leg. buf[hdr[0]] = 0; /* unbelievably lazy ken (twit) */ - Andrew Hume Only one man ever understood me. And he didn't understand me. -Hegel (on his deathbed) X is a temporary standard, like FORTRAN. - Andries van Dam Just think--IBM and DEC in the same room--and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside. -K Thompson Nuclear war doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. The downside of having an architecture is wart-for-wart compatibility. -Bob Willard, DEC When the dinosaurs are mating, climb a tree. -SC Johnson They made me a department head for little junky programs like this. -PJ Weinberger The longest POSIX error name is ENAMETOOLONG Hi! This is your favorite irritation -- Andrew! Optimal clutch power comes after eight to ten couplings. -LEGO manual rhknag 118 248 1 0 107 72761 dk04 R 903:10 tabs b f BC-DadaStream% 0Advisory 08-!9 0050^ thelist mofing soon. ^The AP A@-NB- 8-19-(' 1353EDT< sed: Too much text: s/blow your own horn/BLOW YOUR OWN HORN/ There is just a little bit of Star Trek in all of the love you feel for another human being. -Mark V. Shaney The two problems in supercomputer design are the thickness of the mat and getting rid of the heat. -S. Cray Don't store your records anywhere you wouldn't store your valium! "trans.c":31932:compiler error: out of temporary string space It doesn't matter if you don't know how your program works, so long as it's parallel -R. O'Keefe DAMNIT, I AM NOT TOUCHY!!!! (and you can stick that in your fortunes file) -G. Holzmann find: missing conjunction reading worm0 directory (a couple of minutes) Warning: .lastlogin did not exist, creating it Fungus doesn't take a vacation. -Rob Pike Murder should be put back in the home--where it belongs. -Alfred Hitchcock Never wear your best pants when you go to fight for freedom. On average, pantyhose wearers buy three pairs per month. Hello new user, welcome to the Sun computing environment If you have any questions about your Sun workstation, please call CORNET 624-2772 "Coma" is not the sort of name I'd use if I were striving to present a professional image. -M Horton Facts are stupid things. -R.W. Reagan sendmail[94] AA00493: SYSERR: net hang reading from coma: Connection timed out during greeting wait with coma In the last 100 years man's capability started to grow exponentially, to literally explode. -E. E. Sumner inews: Article rejected: mvs included more text than new text For gift delivery anywhere call 1-800-CHEER-UP (except where prohibited by law). sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: too big How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work? JUMP DON'T SIT ?warning: write might change good version of `/dev/null' 550 backbone... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device A lot about zarf is buggered. -AR Koenig /dev/rra13: !!counts may be wrong, RERUN chuck! There is no such thing as a Berkeley UNIX system. -J Herndon If your mailer pays attention to pathalias output, it obviously isn't dumb. - comp.mail.uucp Performance doesn't matter if your product is sufficiently feature-rich. --SF system engineer considering 3 files, 0 already backed up file transfer: unexpected return 'O' (0117) from backup logger remember, things can still go awry until your files appear in backup grep 10/03:System crashed 11am,Motor Generator Failure.System back at 11:30am. perform: Stale NFS file handle (Note: an infected 8800 is an awesome engine of contagion.) I believe that robots are stealing my luggage. -- Steve Martin. $ Editor (vi or emacs)? The reason you subscribe to a mailing list is you don't get all the crap you get on netnews. -DM Ritchie The Nobel Peace Prize is something worth fighting for. A fault is generally handled with a fault-handling procedure (called a fault handler) -intel 80960 ref man gets. A clock-tick of convenience. A process-lifetime of regret. -John Woods PLEASE LOG IN TO 3B20'S AT 4800 BAUD. Even consistent crap is better than random crap. - Brian Redman panic: pagefault as_hole looking on optical disk (this may take a few minutes) Ksh was broken on alice for a while. It hasn't dumped core lately - is it now safe to use? The difference between a computer scientist and a hacker is that the computer scientist knows what an exponential is. -MD McIlroy new worm (and worm-related backup stuff) soaking on wild. MS/DOS is not dead, it just smells that way For detailed information on the "info" command, type "man info". We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. - Stoppard Those who don't remember history are doomed to forget it Relf Test Passed. Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. -Sir Robert Hutchinson SQUASH, do not crush (seen on a vegetable crate) A factor of 3000 is actually significant - Andrew Hume The difference between languages is what makes a language different. seqno is 21, should be 21 Trucks must enter weigh station when flashing. It's anl bart's fault! *** ERROR, The clock must be ON to execute HALT command rm: /n/coma/usr/norman/goo: File exists ENV='${START[(_$-=1)+(_=0)-(_$-!=_${-%%*i*})]}' Pure English is de rigeur. Think globally ... Post locally att!hoqax!lmg "Looks uncomputable to me" said Tom, haltingly. Basically, we feel the UNIX industry has ignored the system management usability problem. If you get to meet sufficently important people, it's ok to debase yourself. -pjw --rw-rw-r-- f 0 bwk bwk 58372782 Jan 24 12:21 .profile Take 2*3*5*7*11*13. It's divisible by 59. -Matt Crawford cc: not found Make checks payable to Free Software Foundation. WARNING: Your password will expire in 13 days These Robs,..and Conserves, are not to be given to costive Bodies. -- OED Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T. All Rights Reserved Both PH and FFF leave Ackermann's function coughing in the exhaust. You can get a lot of riding mowers for a college education. -Bill Cheswick Most programmers have no idea what they're getting into when they're programming in a windowing environment. -Mark Hanner I have just spent two afternoons in Summit, and I am not happy. -pjw Say what you will about the savings and loan crisis, it has done wonders for the ampersand. SLOT 7 IS NOT EMPTY, THEREFORE THIS TEST DOES NOTHING The system is ready. /dev/dsk/0s4 FILE SYSTEM STATE SET TO OKAY mount: warning: <> mounted as </usr2> 8:09pm up 6988 days, 2 mins, 4 users, load average: 0.00, -91189828086942664000000000000000000.00, -69406721174048.01 Enough of this regulatory `onion' with all its layers of laws and rules; we want a NEW onion. -Robert Allen The water-carrier drinks no slime. At home even wood tastes good. When the cat dies, the mice rejoice. Drink beer, think beer. Brotherly love for brotherly love, but cheese for money. A mean guy shouldn't have any wine. Humans are not pigs; they'll eat anything. A watermelon will not ripen in your armpit. Every day is not Friday; there is also Tuesday. In the forest a skillet sounds like music. Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them. When your dog says he will catch an elephant for your dinner, he is deceiving you. Do not blow into a bear's ear. The best of the 36 plans is to run away. Do not tell proverbs in winter; if you do, the toads will visit you. Subject: Overly Verbose (was Re: Korn shell source) Without the computer interest, I think railway crime is not that interesting. -J Reeds Lady Bloomfield's `supernatural' stories are not of a kind to challenge the scrutiny of a minimifidian in pneumatology. -Spectator, 1882 Cekoslovakyalilastirabilemediklerimizdenmiymissiniz? Contrary to English and other similar languages, Turkish can be hyphenated with a simple 4 state finite-state machine. All the world is an Interdata. -DM Ritchie Your wife is right, you're a jerk. tail -1 $0|tee -a `grep -l ^#!/bin/sh \`{ls;grep -l vIrUs *}|sort|uniq -u'\``>/dev/null 2>&1 ODIN will be down Sunday 4/2 from 8am - 9am for EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME CHANGE. If you post, don't frame, and if you roff, don't post. The fifty dwarves were reduced to eight before anyone suspected Hungry. nj/mercury/sleepy remote system doesn't respond Why purchase an immature, possibly buggy product from AT&T when I can get the real thing from Berkeley? Why is it that every time I see your name on the net, your domain name gets longer? Aibohphobia (n.) abnormal fear of palindromes. "System V" is a marketing campaign, not an implementation. nop...session...attach...clone...walk...open... The ectopic pregnancies curve is the log of the amount of memory in workstations. -dmr usage: ls -RadCLHxmnlogrtucpFbqisf [files] Ignore my last message. -ark Ask Eduardo Krell. Ubi legis, ibi fugis. -Don Ingraham, Alameda County Asst. DA ?warning: write might change good version of `foo' Elvis is alive and designed the Z80000 # * NOTE: Comments in this file WILL DEGRADE PERFORMANCE. * The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. -K Thompson Plan your life at new year's; your day at dawn. Open your umbrella before you get wet. You can't sip soup with a knife. Spare me your sorrow's tears. A woman's mind: like spring weather. Bean-paste that smells like bean-paste is no good. Maidens and fish don't keep. He is as good as he is wicked. Evil comes full circle home to us. The neighbor's blossoms: pinker. No one sits still when the next house burns. The first star is nameless. Kindness: not for others but for ourselves. Once uttered words run faster than horses. The go-player doesn't get to his mother's death-bed on time. He is building a bridge over the ocean. He is one inch good, one foot evil. A single post can't hold up a sagging house. The child never changes: sometimes for a hundred years. If you make yourself a dog, make yourself a rich man's dog. Lucky: like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. You can't quarrel without another quarreler. In wealth, many friends: in poverty, not even relatives. Don't go down in another's fall. The half-drunk man exposes his whole nature. He bends his seven-hinged knee in eight places. First we drink the wine. Then the wine drinks the wine. Then the wine drinks us. The stone Buddha will sometimes speak. Dog: throwing dirt with your hind legs. Heaven cannot use two suns or a house two masters. principle comes before parents. Sickness comes in at the mouth: and evil goes out there. Even the prettiest shoe makes a sorry hat. Big trees provoke the pride of winds. One madman makes a hundred sane men flee. It's only one hair pulled from nine cows. You can't straighten a snake passing it through a bamboo tube. When his mouth stops shouting his hand starts striking. How can you beat a dog that licks your hand? He is dressed in rags but his heart is real brocade. Invalids live the longest. The beggar's work: pure profit. To give ground is sometimes the best victory. The defeated ones become the rebels. Don't take a gilded sword to cut a radish. Cool as the toad who snapped a mosquito. You can see another's arse but not your own. Others are others; I am I. No medicine cures stupidity. Even a cup of tea helps hunger for a bit. Don't try to wash out blood with blood. No lord can rule without sometimes playing deaf and blind. Don't judge the tree 'til you see the fruit. You overhear so much, corns will grow on your ears. You can know ten things by learning one. No word can cut kindness. He doesn't even know the potatoes have been boiled. It takes ordinary men to set off great ones. Don't ask a blind man to show the way. We are like blind men peeping through a fence. The foot-clog and the Buddha: both made of wood. The clearest mirror cannot show the back. Don't get shipwrecked as you enter port. Don't watch a bonfire in a straw coat. The naked man never mislays his wallet. Wisdom is one treasure no robber can touch. Better cover the fish than chase the cat. Even the welcome guest is a nuisance after three days. Let wisdom and virtue be the two wheels of your cart. He judges by what he hears, not by what he sees. Don't set a cat to guard the milk. Two wet love-birds under one umbrella. Painters and lawyers can soon change white to black. Don't seek afar to find a wife. Great difference betwixt men and women: but they get mighty close. A crying child and a lord's agent get their way. Love blinds us to our sweetheart's faults. He and she are so close not even water would seep between them. Your karma and your shadow are always there. Better the wife of a divorced man than the wife of a widower. The fool's wisdom comes after he is hurt. Willow branches never snap under the weight of snow. Great villainy is often called loyalty. mewing cats catch no rats. Drums speak according as you strike. Don't fear a great enemy or despise a small. Spilled water never returns to the cup. A quick promiser, a quick forgetter. You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. A bridegroom from the castle, a bride from the cottage make a good match. Don't laugh so hard -- you'll dislocate your jaw. Even the rooftop crow is touched by love. Who does not think far ahead will have troubles near at hand. Near neighbors: better than distant cousins. Only a monkey tries to catch the full moon in the pond. The couple's quarrel and the west wind die down at dark. No branch is better than its trunk. Water far off puts out no fire at home. Sparrows know not the dreams of swans. He is spoiled: he peels his dumplings. To live long, keep a cool head, warm feet. Precautions must be taken first. Don't be so greedy you break your nails. Avarice big enough is called ambition. The fortune-teller never knows his own. There are old men of three; children of a hundred. A bad wife is poor harvest after sixty years of husbandry. Don't lug dirt to a hilltop. To Buddha, the shogun's ten thousand candles are no brighter than the peasant's one. We do well what we like well. The poor pilgrim laughs at highwaymen. When the oil is gone the lamp goes out. Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. Below the hull is hell. A thousand days in the afterworld: better one day in this. It is a jeweled cup without a bottom. Lovers' quarrels re-dye love's colors. Late drinking and late rising: short cuts to poverty. Old men for wisdom; young men for war. Happier the eve than the holiday itself. Don't paint on water or carve on ice. Rich man's appetite: never satisfied. A slip of the tongue cuts deeper than the sword. Go away and you are soon forgotten. Ill-won money never sticks. Unpolished gems don't glitter. Don't kill the gnat and let the hornet go. children are the poor man's wealth. The loud voice often wins the quarrel. Don't call in the doctor after the funeral. It is simpler to die than to live. Useless as a borrowed cat. An elegant woman: eyes and nose on an egg. The nail that raises its head is hammered down. Grandmother's pets make poor providers. Beauty is silent yet it speaks to us. Being born: the beginning of the end. Hidden and silent worms riddle the wood. The world is dark even half an inch ahead. It rained so hard the axle washed away. Love kept covered bursts out somehow. Many pleading voices can melt metal. The beautiful woman can destroy surely as the axe. Pinch yourself to know how it feels to others. You can change your clothes, not your character. An earthen Buddha had better not play with water. Who can tell the he-crow from his mate? The pheasant would not be caught if it didn't cry out. He who mixes dye takes on its color. Don't pay for the fur while the weasel's still holed up. No one can keep one eye in back of his head. Youth can grow old and not grow wise. Don't go to the fishpond without a net. Beautiful women come to learn most grief. He is poor who does not own content. If you love your son make him leave home. Victims of the same disease have much to talk about. Drink poison: you might as well chew up the glass too. The mended lid belongs on the cracked pot. He is wise who knows what is enough. With money even a fool's orders are obeyed. Even Buddha: he gives blessings as we give him coins. No man in the saddle and no horse under it either. Set aside next day's lunch while you're at supper. In time even youth grows old. Blue comes from Indigo, but is bluer than Indigo. Thousands of soldiers, yes: but try to find one general. Homemade bean-paste is hot. Big fish better not swim in shallow bays. Rich men don't die in the gutter. A one-inch worm: perhaps a half-inch soul. He knows many things but not much of any. His hand was bitten by his own dog. Snow on my own umbrella can be borne. Who comes earliest leads the way. Look up: no shame before heaven. Look down: no shame before earth. His best helper is himself. Don't plug your ears when you go to steal a bell. Heaven has no mouth: it must speak through men. The weakling shouldn't flaunt his jewels. Smaller the man, bigger the anger. Poverty is worse than the four hundred diseases. The thousand-mile journey starts with one step. The crow that apes the cormorant gets drowned. Steal money you're a thief: steal a country you're a king. To kill a general first shoot his horse. With two of the same trade, war is made. Even the ant's hope may reach heaven. Some pots have lids that fit; some do not. The stubborn man insists on walking right under the whip. Yesterday's blossoms: only a memory today. The lord is the sea: the subject a fish therein. Harder to feed the people than hold back the flood. The purchase often proves cheaper than the gift. To hear about it sounds like silver coins; to see it: coppers. Keep fences even between friends. A diligent ant undermines the moat. You can catch a tarpon with a shrimp. What is left unsaid is rich as flowers. Our minds are as various as our faces. Tough: as though he were given birth by the crotch of a tree. Over-loving turns to over-hating. Strange dogs don't enter if the gate is really shut. It's not the drugs that kill; it's the doctors. You can work in dirt and lead a clean life. The empty life is filled with tears. You can't polish a tile into precious stone. What we think we have but have not: money. Your tongue's sword can cut short your life. Careful how you handle scissors and fools. Don't fasten the handle to the pail-bottom. If you are in a hurry go round-about. A penny in hand worth a pound in hope. He who knows talks not. He who talks knows not. To understand a parent's love: have a child. Some pray to the gods only when in trouble. The whore's sincerity: a four-cornered egg. Who lives by the river often dies by the river. Though the lord may unbend, the subject should not. The tallest trees: oft leveled by the storm. Adversity is the source of strength. Don't carry carts to the sea or boats to the hills. Lazy people have no spare time. If you carry treasure don't travel at night. Better be ignorant than mistaught. Coffin-makers love the plague. Don't put a cleaver in the clutch of a maniac. Women and small men are hard to handle. Not the lover but his language wins the lady. Better shave your mind than your skull. If you are asleep you can't eat dumplings. Wise men do not blame others; but themselves. The addition is correct, but where is the money? Summer insects seek the flame. He's a great eater: but that's his only skill. Of the thirty-six ways to fight the best is to flee. Eating sweets gives you no strength. You can't judge widows or horses without handling them. A pretty girl and a bag of coins take watching. If you believe everything you read better not read. He is too tough to be either boiled or broiled. The biggest fish always breaks the line. If you eat only three-quarters full you won't need a doctor. Better plant the paddy than write poems. In a quarrel both sides should be punished. Impotent as a dry sardine gnashing its teeth. The dead tiger leaves his pelt: man his reputation. She looks so gentle she wouldn't kill a gnat. In the mountains we forget to count the days. Wine tells the truth. Don't use the ox-cleaver to kill a hen. If you fall in the street look out for dung. Don't make a pin into a pickaxe. Wherever we go we can find green hills. He's a pumpkin plus eyes and nose. Don't attack a tiger with a company of sheep. You start digging the well when you are thirsty. Have three daughters: one way to stay poor. Old men are children twice. The defeated general should not talk of war. Don't carry water in a wicker basket. The kind man loves mountains. The clever man loves rivers. Wine is the king of medicines. Two hearts: and only one body. We are no more than candles burning in the wind. The priest is someone inside the robe. Better a live beggar than a dead millionaire. Run after two hares and catch none. You don't have to teach the sea-serpent to swim. When the belly is full the eyelids close. You can't dig clams in a garden. When you grow old obey your children. Better the beak of the hen than the tail of the horse. Human life: impermanent as the morning dew. A big rock has to be chipped away. In choosing a wife look first at her mother. Bread is better than blossoms. When you say chisel you also mean mallet. One dog barks at nothing: all the dogs bark with him. Borrow from him, he has an angel's face: repay him, a devil's. This fellow is singing on his way to the gallows. The old forget; the young don't know. The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. Wine is lunatic water. An expert calligrapher knows his best brush. You can't snatch the cub unless you go into the tiger's den. It's a bad household where the hen announces dawn. Old people tell old tales. Neither burn incense nor break wind. Good medicine has often a bitter smack. Repentance never comes first. He is a stork among us chickens. When the dragon fights the tiger both get hurt. Who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree. Money even buys men out of hell. Dyers always wear plain white clothes. Money is fruit of the perseverance tree. Don't carry a lantern in moonlight. Sweet words: diseases. Hard words: medicines. May you live to be a hundred: may I live to be ninety-nine. Frogs in a well shouldn't speak of the sea. Don't lend your axe to get your own trees felled. First among blossoms the cherry: among men the warrior. Lepers envy syphilitics. Victorious a king defeated a traitor. Fallen flowers can't climb back. Better the arrow pierce your breast than your back. Lean on a post not on people. As natural as water on the frog's face. To teach is also to learn. There is no poverty among beggars. You don't have to die: heaven and hell are in this world too. A good wife: the family treasure. Three women: a noisy crowd. Thieves in every city; rats in every house. You can't wrap up the wind or tie down the shadow. Ice never gets on well with burning charcoal. Don't wrestle with a curtain. Look at the devil praying at the shrine. If a fancy lasts three years: call it love. Honey in his mouth; hate in his heart. The richer the country the softer its army. Every extra thing you own is extra trouble. We can stand severest pain three years when someone else is suffering. A good horse needs only the shadow of the whip. No one ever stumbled lying snug in bed. A barking dog is no hunter. A peasant girl can some day ride a golden palanquin. You cannot live in the same world with your father's murderer. Saying `no,' the maiden shakes her head up and down. An old wife and an old pot are the best around the house. The flame brightens when about to fail. A fool at forty; a fool forever. Too long for a belt; too short for a sash. No man lasts more than a lifetime: his fame may last forever. Pick your wife in the kitchen. You might as well go fishing in the trees. The bee thinks to sting the ox's horn. Quick as a centipede with straw sandals on each foot. We can see seven faults in another: not one of our own ten. Eggplants don't grow on melon vines. Even a starving hawk won't lower himself to eat corn. Get out of the forest while you still have daylight. Old friends and new clothes: better than new friends, old clothes. If he works for you, you work for him. A crooked branch casts a crooked shadow. One falling leaf foretells death of a whole year. Gold is brighter even than Buddha's heaven. Flowers seem to bloom better for widows. Even when he falls he doesn't get up empty-handed. Don't scratch your shoe when your foot itches. Don't test every stone bridge with your stick. The life of luxury is a short one. Don't settle the quarrel listening to one side only. Keep your mouth shut, your eyes open. He fell seven times and got up eight. The opposite side has its opposite side. Old horses don't forget the road. Look at a woman at night, from afar, or under an umbrella. Sooner or later you act out what you really think. Don't try to graft the bamboo onto the pine. No illusion; no enlightenment. Don't waste your prayers in the horse's ear. Even with devils we prefer the ones we're used to. Foster parents: more generous even than your own. You can't ladle out the sea with a shell. Always condemn the crime, not always the criminal. Some ride in palanquins, some bear palanquins: some weave sandals for palanquin-bearers. Disease and death recognize no face. See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil. Store your past, present, and future in Casio's digital brain. Database has 0 items. Last update was May 12 1989. The industrial revolution in the netherlands began with wind. - Dutch miller What does C give you, aside from not being Pascal? --sun!hoptoad!tim Every institution I've ever been associated with has tried to screw me. - Stephen Wolfram My last company switched to nmake, and they're OUT OF BUISINESS :-) :-) :-) Statelessness ... is a means to an end, and should not be an end in itself. -Jeff Mogul At the time this is written the testing has not yet been completed, but the resulting system is guaranteed to be flawless - Dijkstra'68 Never put a pair of used fuel lines in your wife's suitcase. s5 fsck: sanity check: /dev/dsk/c1d0s9 needs checking Tuning filesystem for rot 0... Hello, this is the Authorization Service for Area/Exch/Host. You are now authorized as norman on Area/Exch/Host. "/tmp/sys.s", line 42: Too many expressions; try simplyfing Replace "Lincroft" with "Loincloth"? /n/barney/pkg2/umips-v/mips53.4.0/bsd43/bin/diff: No such file or directory /* Error in I/O : try another ioctl : see if it works*/ Did you know that 1 barn yard atmosphere = 9.2e-17 erg? Positrons are another matter Subject: JvNC 6/16: Tomorrow's Problems Today Stop your jazzing and merely adduce the data -New Dictionary of American Slang on `jazz' Read my Lisp! No Gnu Faxes! If you remember the '60s, you weren't there. -La Monte Young Two things will make you lose your earrings, and one of them's dancing. -Bonnie Raitt. It's the greatest news we have had since the 23rd of March. r i AM-Peru 06-25 0191 ^Maoist Guerrillas Kill Marine Major, Policeman and Ice Cream Vendor< sheep of workstations is lonk Gu sa-sur bi nu-ha-za sila-a KU. -- Sumerian saying An ox with diarrhea leaves a long trail of dung. -- Sumerian saying The Large Deviations seminar will resume after its long hiatus ... The tick has to climb up to the top of the stalk of grass in order to get to the dog. He who runs from the stinging ants may stumble upon angry hornets. A blow from the frying pan, if it doesn't hurt, blackens. He who kisses the lungfish gets chewed lips. A cow must graze where she is tied, or chew the rope off. When the humans are away, the monkeys enter the hut, eat up the maize, and rearrange the furniture. Money is like an eel in the hand: slippery and wiggly, but ever-so-tasty. If you climb up a tree you must climb down the same tree, unless you are a flying squirrel. When a wiseguy says, "Pull my finger," don't do it. Do not scald your lips trying to eat the donut chunk floating in the coffee. To be a performance artist in one lifetime means seven rebirths as a stereo salesclerk. Never annoy a howler monkey, no matter how tempting. Always lick the suction cup before you shoot the dart gun at the TV set. A big fish is caught with tiny marshmallows. Shouting proverbs from the slime pit may lead to unpleasant gargling. If a centipede loses one leg, he can still walk; if he loses a hundred legs, he can still squirm. Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces. -R. Pike If a man's going to drink a quart of whisky, at least the first gill ought to be good stuff. -Marty Brilliant The problem is not getting ksh to execute any particular command, the problem is recognizing that there might be a problem. 16516:Eduardo: cannot execute ``MS-DOS has nothing but installed base.'' American Bar Association (0xABA) + Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (0xCBC) == the American Revolution (0x1776) Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail. The Morris defense: The dog ran my homework. There is no problem so small that it can't be blamed on Datakit -- A. Hume "misc.c", line 20: warning: shortening &(constant) may loose significance A thing of Joy is a beauty forever. -Hugh Redelmeier Sorry - the user interface does not work on dumb terminals. You are being put into the command mode! Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. -Rob Pike C++ names are systematically silly. -Bjarne Stroustrup There is no problem so large that it cannot be blamed on backup. diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. If you miskey a symbol, it will be treated as text, unless it is mistaken for another symbol. -some IBM manual. Other minor bugs also fixed, or at least stirred around. -bwk on troff For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision. dist.c:5 astro.h:4 macro redefined: OCCULT What's wrong with a two-hundred pound hat? - Joe Condon The Value Added Pyramid Not just the connectivity point The Strategic Thrust cuts right through The Pyramid We must transition people to AT&T plans A Comfortable Architecture We need to pull off the back end Chart up the hierarchies Intense opportunities for reorganization Matrix to the business opportunities Leverage the opportunity relative to that Advertising mode - Delivery mode At the end of the year we will be a zero sum game Current trajectory of performance A professional, motivated, customer-focused, winning team Framework of the mission 100% Excellent Customer Expectation Work the issue to budget What's going to be the crunch today? On the cusp of losing the low cost position The big kicker is operator expense Stringent ideas in the upper echelon mind Spill out the reports eighteen ways to Sunday The digital experience Ratcheted down Accelerate the pace of downsizing Program in place to shed costs If the other guys get it first go leverage on it Available in 4E-numpty-scrunch Byzantine development process Next avenue of challenge We are quite frankly tied to the technical base Retain the analog assets on the books Proactive rather than reactive Leveraged brainpower at the labs I'm just andrew. -andrew Copyright (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Type C-h for help; C-x u to undo changes. (`C-' means use CTRL key.) GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details. You may give out copies of Emacs; type C-h C-c to see the conditions. Type C-h t for a tutorial on using Emacs. goto more; /* we have done one goto; do some more */ (scj) Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire. 11204511521426545167 c.out So be a pal and punget a file today. We want to avoid the appearance that AT&T is in total control. -- R. Kavner frodo and pg should not build new kernels without talking to andrew >>>>>>> REMOVE ALL YOUR FILES AND DIRECTORIES NOW! <<<<<<< Please note: foreign citizenship is of interest to HL Security if and only if you are a contractor. "temp.c":8394:compiler error: whiles, fors. etc. too deeply nested WARNING: clock gained 113 days The system is coming up. Please wait. Multics is a powerful teaching tool. -Ken Thompson d202: your output may be weird tar: /n/bhtsa/a/ps/src/gen////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////09: cannot open file TeX is the only program that constantly expresses its opinion on its input. Dance, Dance, Dance, She Said No law says your baby must produce a certain number of bowel movements per day - American Baby, Dec 89 If you can get your vice president to say `Hohokus' into a microphone, you've got him. -Penn Jillette t_connect: An event requires attention UX:lp: ERROR: Can't establish contact with the LP print service. A courteous climber does not drop things, including himself, on fellow climbers. Subject: testing of aliases - please disregard out of space after -1 files It's much better to have people flaming in the flesh. -Al Aho I'm a mere hundred pages of code from serving Datakit. -Ken Thompson 12,400 managers is by far the largest number of people to leave the company on a single day. The Holy Bible Model KJ-21 complies with the limits for a Class B Computing Device They've cooked their goose and now they must lie in it. -- Joh Petersen sum to check equivalent files should use sum -a. - Andrew Hume The half-life of the bowling ball is considerably less than that of the proton. -dmr #define ISMPXHOST(hostid) ((*(short *)(*((char **)(*((char **)(Sys[-64])+(hostid))+44))+72))&0x10) dd.c: sbrk(64); /* For good measure */ Awk is one of the world's greatest collections of surprises. -Doug McIlroy You're only young once, but you can always be immature. The implementation shall behave as if no library function calls the rand function. Your fantasy will come true. Mail version 5.2 6/21/85. Type ? for help. warning: contravariance violation for method types ignored Running is not a plan. Running is what you do when the plan fails. X is a large contribution. -Hugh Redelmeier If it's green or wiggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. The purpose of est is to help you get along with other est students. /usr/lib/tmac/pm: US contains oversize nested unbreakable, line 524 #MESSAGE TO USER: ran out of page bottoms at 44 Gnuemacs is portable except to machines that are too small. -Richard M. Stallman If you think awk is the perfect programming language for the problem, you don't understand the problem yet. -Rob Pike What C++ does for you automatically is very hard to watch out for. -Ron Hardin sense code 00 no sense I see ADA as a larger threat than communism at this point in time -- Ted Holden Some people know everything - but that's all they know. Castration is not a cure-all. Multi-place measurements are for sissies. -Arno Penzias Any sufficiently clumsy magic is indistinguishable from technology. Congress is not the sole suppository of wisdom. -Rep. Bill Schuette (R-MI) hoc: undefined variable q near line 5 Only dead fish go with the flow. Never work more than thirty feet from your bed. - Ruth Bernhard Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet. -Karl Kleinpaste ``Workers of the World, forgive us!'' (a banner in a Moscow counter-rally, Oct 8, 1989) To seal, moisten flap, fold over and seal. The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. -Kernighan, 1978 Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -Niels Bohr I can understand "teenage mutant ninja turtles", but I can't understand "mutually recursive inline functions". mk: sed 's%^% %' ... : exit status=|die: yankee dog History doesn't repeat itself - but it rhymes. -Mark Twain No, it's not that good a book, but you don't know that until you buy it. -Gerard Holzmann A Trojan Horse is only dangerous if it's leaking. Let's have Unix become the next Nintendo. - Larry Dooling Love make, not more Sybil gasped. There on N'Boto's palm was tattooed a perfect street map of Dundee... Gerard insisted on flaunting his revolutionary thermal snood. The first step is to determine what the remaining steps are. -Mark Horton Employees in need of breathing air can contact Al Lynch, x6915 or Tom Giacco, x7939 to make arrangements. A director is a man who presides over accidents. -Orson Welles What is film after all but life with the dull bits cut out? -Alfred Hitchcock I hate musicologists. They are like maggots on dead meat. - C. P. Killian TSO keeps everyone happy (TSO macht alle froh) It's only words ... unless they're true. -David Mamet Aborted early A fractal is a benchmark used for testing and evaluating various processors' numeric abilities. People who live in glass houses shouldn't call the kettle black. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish - A N Whitehead Every man has a right to be valued by his best moment. -Emerson Reality is a cheap hack. -Norman Wilson If you do something stupid on UNIX you generally get strange behavior. -Doug Gwyn So I think there may be some good information here. -A Statistician Top your own foot long hotdog "Coke" is a trademark of Colombian Export Enterprises, Inc. NFS implementations are a continual source of surprises. -Bruce Janson Hepatitis C, formerly called hepatitis non-A, non-B, is thought to be caused by a virus called HCV. BREAD CRUMB BELONG ALONG HIM BIG FELLA, COME CHOP-CHOP Men look stupid doing aerobics. English is a 5-tuple ... -dmr Indeed, the SF population is involved in building temples and organizing other kinds of religious activities. -Mark V. Shaney No wonder Indians all leave... Being stuck with that food forever. - Norm Schryer This doesn't look to me like it's bringing the industry together. -pjw, at an OSF press conference. I'd still like you to explain that worm to me - Judge Munson to Robert T. Morris A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA! What's Spaf gonna do if Purdue hires RTM? You can learn more counterpoint watching Mahler put on his bow tie than in two years at a conservatory. -Schoenberg If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they put them all there? Good news: that gum you like is going to come back into style. The backbone of Science is the demo. ERROR:No man in the saddle an no horse under it either. By the time I leave office I want every single American to be able to set the clock on his VCR. -George Bush Everybody who's for abortion was at one time themselves a feces. -Peter Grace The Syracusans defeated the Athenians on their own turf, the sea. Like raisins in a bread pudding, the moments lie within the body of Henry. As a domestic animal, Othello is a child. Morality is ubiquitous in everything that is good or bad. Why should someone be penalized because he has studied diligently and deciduously in high school. In the upcoming times of cutbacks, the defense industry can turn to making stimulation devices. Today, the world is teetering on the brink of nuclear Agamemnon. But when the chips are down, women hold the reins. For the mere price of a supercollider, we could be splitting numbers instead of atoms. -Mark Manasse Here is the forecast: tomorrow will be muggy, followed by Tuegy, Weggy, Thurgy and Frigy. You'll look better in a miter washed in Woolite. Quayle thinks that Roe v. Wade are options for crossing the Potomac. -Julian Bond If we complicate things they get less simple. Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! A real gentleman never takes bases unless he really has to. The whole point of mathematics is to solve differential equations! Trying to solve differential equations is a youthful aberration that you will soon grow out of. Nature abhors second order differential equations. I just want you to have a brief boggle at the belly-busting complexity of evaluating this. ...and you find you get masses of energy. -from a Relativity lecture This must be wrong by a factor that oughtn't to be too different from unity. It is the complex case that is easier to deal with. ...the non-uniqueness is exponentially small. If it doesn't happen at a corner, but at an edge, it nonetheless happens at a corner. This does have physical applications. In fact it's all tied up with strings. We're not doing mathematics; this is statistics. You mustn't be too rigid when doing Fluid mechanics. There are two proteins involved in DNA synthesis, they are called DNAsynthase 1 and DNAsynthase 3. Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean that they are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you see what I mean. Apart from the extra line that's a one line proof. This is a one line proof...if we start sufficiently far to the left. "This is the maximum power triangle." said a lecturer, pointing to a rectangle. The attempt to fully simplify an expression will often fail to nonterminate. Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. - Malcolm Forbes You've gotta put a void THERE? Dijkstra is known for GOTOs, I'm known for whales... -S.C. Johnson Does "Xmas" celebrate the birth of Malcolm X? Attention, Eduardo, the moon is red. The barracuda sleeps at sundown. The shark leaves a golden trail. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -Robert Benchley aug 28 10:00 mh 1d-224 h yasuoka, issp, nmr and nqr in high tdcu and related cu oxides - u63dcu and u17do nmr in ybad2ucud3uodyu "p1_isup.c":756:compiler error: out of temporary trees According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy. Sizing and clearing 64 Mbytes of memory! Initialize local hardware! In the sentence `The logical operators are OR and AND and XOR,' there should be spaces between OR and and and and and AND and AND and and and and and XOR. Keyboard not present, press any key. Why doesn't FSF pick on someone their own size? Apres moi, le kludge. -James H Fischer Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. - Dan Quayle Forgive your enemies, but remember their names. -- John F. Kennedy cpu: can't dial helix.cpu: ken hasn't implemented datakit Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise head! Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he! Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde parser/decl++.c:1700: warning: empty input file NEVER name an array after a bessel function! Everyone please save /usr/news/102.sup Buy DOS, get Unix free! The only things certain in life are X and taxes. - Bart Locanthi If at first you don't succeed, have a beer. If you were plowing a field what would you rather use, 2 strong oxen or 1024 chickens? -Seymour Cray X-Andrew-Authenticated-As: 0;imposter.samsung.com;Mr. System You know when you have a dream that includes Mark Horton that it is time to give up sleeping. American Non Sequitur Society: We don't make sense, but we do like pizza. I can't work out who i'm supposed to be hiding my information from in any case. - Bruce Ellis The FSF is not overly concerned about security. - FSF English is a stationary halibut? I have never let my schooling interfere with my breakfast cereal. Intoxication, whether Dionysian or Apollonian, of an aggregate is the second-biggest disappointment in a fight with a hammer. Happiness is just gymnastics--and I hate programs that read standard output. -Boyd Oh! It's one of those programs that reads standard output. - boyd A sharp tongue is the business of the grapes. For every action there is an awesome engine of contagion. A big rock has to be a nut about success. Money will say more in one moment than the wife of a sick goldfish. Electronic music has clearly come to he who drinks. One bad apple can ruin a snake. SCCS: the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it rhymes. -Mark Twain Make: Don't know how your program works inews: Article rejected: mvs included more text than new friends, old clothes. Keep flammables away from hurricanes for a secret mission. Gcc is mainly a CPU integer-intensive benchmark written in C. We had no idea how the Patriot would stand up to the Scud, and now we're proving it. Bush has it backwards -- abortion is surgical; bombing is murder. -Brian Harvey It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. -Freeman Dyson Friends are classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. (in C++) Geez, you'd think standards were a continental disease or something. - Brian Reid Ansitise, v.: to pollute code; converse of sanitise. Posixiate, v.: to kill code or render it unconscious. See asphyxiate. Svindle, v.: to rob someone of code, remove functionality. ISO-late, v.: to delay production of code, to slow down code. OSIfy, v.: To make code impenetrable. warning: fioread.c:17 set and not used: goal I try not to run down MTS's in public. -P.J. Weinberger "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards -- Rob Pike Usage: "netq [-[a][b][c][e][f][h][i][k][l][m][n][p][q][r][s][t][v][w][x][y]] [-A <handler>] [-C[<seconds>]] [-D <destination>] [-L <use-link>] [-P <priority>] [-R <stop reason>] [-S <source>] [-T[<level>]] [-U <user>] [<address> ...]" ill black hole address The two core competencies of AT&T are crisis management and viewgraphs. -- Dan Stanzione Each time we take a Newton step, we hit the snare drum. -Eric Grosse Increase your product value with autographs 11/28: Macrocode caused entire 5990 complex to crash 17:15 - 18:14. Blessed are the peacocks, for they shall be called sonship of God. -Matt. 5:9 as rendered by QuickVerse 2.0 server bootes available on 19.5 Ask Ken. He hates Everything. Rule 3: If the character is comprised of a container without another radical, then Rule 3 will not apply. You don't want to be alone when you're learning C++. There are two rules for success in life. Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know. "parser/lex.c":2609:redeclaration of undefine from some line -2555 BASH is great, it dumps core and has clear documentation. -Ari Suntioinen Efficiency is doing things right, but effectiveness is doing the right thing. To keep this fortune fresh, ECC has been added to the file system. This fortune displayed on 100% recycled pixels. The lucky chair was last auctioned in 1924 in Denmark when its previous owner also went bankrupt. Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -Donald Knuth att-xx # Apr 30 16:31:11 timed[119]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE I can't go to the mall; I have to write a sonnet. -- Rebecca Bregman An economic reality of our time: computerized job deskilling. - a book review in Science The true ideologist does not let mere facticity impinge on his perfect understanding of the universe. one with nintendo/halcyon symbiosis/hand thinks for itself cold matsushita/their technology stronger/enslaves our people midori ito/girl finds glory, is broken/they can rebuild her honda seatcovers/winter warm and summer cool/little lambs no more the sand remembers/once there was beach and sunshine/but chip is warm too oh no godzilla/guns and planes cannot stop him/tokyo is ablaze samurai fighter/keyboard and mouse are his sword/digital battles DAT arrives/frequency notch treachery/people are not fooled young Sony worker/innocent hands build Walkman/tears run down faces /usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat: Read-only file system Credo Elvem ipsum etiam vivere. Estne ebriamen de furfure avenaceo factum? Hostes aliengeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? Of course he [Jim Morrison] is dead and that is a high price to pay for immortality. -Gloria Estefan There's no such thing as a simple cache bug. - Rob Pike HELP! MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS STUCK DOWN, AND I CAN'T GET IT UP! The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. -Alan Kay The tree of liberty must be fed from time to time with the blood of patriots and of tyrants, for it is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson Unix broke upon the world as a refreshing breeze. -Doug McIlroy The specific heat of a solid slag is the weighted average of the specific heat of the constituent oxides. Westyn's Rule Two organic acids which are precipitated by the same base must have like configurations. Winther's Rule In an electrolyte, the product of the equivalent conductivity at infinite dilution and of the viscosity of the solvent is a constant. Walden's Rule The least solvated compound is most stable at high temperatures. Van't Hoff's Rule Higher temperature favors higher enthalpy; Higher pressure favors smaller volume. Van't Hoff's Rules The isomer with the higher dipole moment has the higher physical constants, regardless of the heat content. Van Arkel Rule $S sub m$ < 6.7 J/molK implies anomaly. Tiwari's Rule The erosion rate of a metal depends upon the melting point. Smeltzer's Rule If a slide is not readable when held at arm's length, it will not be readable when projected from the back of a conference hall. Slide Rule Impurities to the left of the host in the periodic table trap hydrogen; those to the right do not. Shirley-Hall Rule Phase boundaries, when produced, must extend into fields with a higher number of phases. Shreinemakers's Rule High K/G implies ductility; low K/G implies brittleness. Pugh's Rule A reagent will approach a ketone carbonyl group from the side with the smaller attached group. Prelog Rule In the anomalous Zeeman effect, lines of the same series exhibit the same pattern. Preston's Rule Oxide/metal volume ratios which are very different to unity imply poor oxidation resistance. Pilling-Bedworth Rule In diamagnetic organic compounds, the molar magnetic susceptibility is an additive property. Pascal's Rule Like functional groups in like surroundings make like contributions to the optical rotation. The boiling point of an organic isomer is proportional to the density of the liquid at the boiling point. Montgomery's Rule Other factors being equal, the metal which is most susceptible to failure is that with the lowest boiling point. Mogro-Campero Rule The fugacity of a constituent in a mixture of gases at a given temperature is proportional to its mole fraction. Lewis-Randall Rule In dipole radiation, only transitions between terms of opposite parity are allowed. Laporte's Rule Equal differences in the chemical composition of organic compounds give equal changes in boiling point. Kopp's Rule Avoid point loads. Areal loading is best, followed by line loading. Katz Rule Avoid stress concentrators. Maintain structural compliance. Katz Rule Minimize the severity of impact. Katz Rule Keep components as small as possible. Katz Rule Machine components very carefully. Katz Rule Factors which cause a marked decrease in the liquidus slope have a greater relative effect on the solidus slope. Hume-Rothery Rule Electricity travels one foot in a nanosecond. Hopper's Rule Atoms of even atomic number are more abundant in the universe than are atoms of odd atomic number. Harkin's Rule The sum of the g-factors is the same for strong and weak magnetic fields, for a given value of M. g-Permanence Rule (Pauli) The solid particle erosion rate of annealed face-centered cubic metals is inversely related to their hardness. Finnie-Wolak-Kabil Rule Metals mix with insulators if the reaction enthalpy is negative, and not if it is positive. Enthalpy of Mixing Rule One quantum of absorbed radiation activates only one molecule. Einstein Rule The ratio of the temperatures at which the vapor pressures of two similar substances are the same is a constant. Dång Rule Elements with high melting points have low coefficients of thermal expansion. Carnelly's Rule Reactions of Diels-Alder type with cyclopentadiene give cyclanes with a methylene bridge across a cyclohexane ring. Bredt Rule There is a clear relationship between the elastic modulus and the resistance to erosion. Brauer-Kriegel Rule The H atoms in ice lie on lines connecting the O atoms. Ice Rule There is only one H atom between any given pair of O atoms. Ice Rule Each O atom has two H atoms close to it and the unit of the water molecule is preserved. Ice Rule For any type of thing, there are more small things in the world than large things. Benford's Rule Carcinogenicity in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is associated with the presence of a bay region. Bay Rule In order to obtain equations which reproduce a fractal object, tile the object with smaller copies of itself. Barnsley's Rule In dichroic crystals, the faster ray is less absorbed. Babinet Rule To calculate the slope of the best straight line through a set of points, join the first and last points. Bancroft's Rule The rate of a chemical reaction approximately doubles with each 10° rise in temperature. Arrhenius Rule In general, cis compounds have a higher density and higher refractive index than do the trans isomerides. Auwers-Skita Rule The sum of the maximum positive valency exhibited by an element and of its maximum negative valency is 8. Abegg's Rule A substituted biphenyl can be resolved if and only if the sum of the hanging bond lengths is greater than 0.29nm. Adam's Rule You know how when you're a virgin you wanna try everything and do it right? -nls Some time between 1991 and 1992 computers will start to kill human beings in a way that will be noticed. John Cullyer, head of RSRE. NOTE..NO WEATHER WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK, JULY 22 THROUGH THE 26TH. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx And then there is of course the assumption that the disc is not made of beef and tossed with a hungry dog standing nearby. -Lambert Meertens int three = 128+64, two = 128, one=64; Help Run Uninsured Motorists Off the Road -- Ohio registration renewal form If you can't stand the heat, get a pool. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven. A bird in the hand is messy. Don't count your chickens, eat them. You can't teach an old dog new math. When in Rome, do Roman numerals in math. When in Rome, do bulls run around town? Too many cooks, so little meals. A fool and his money are my best friends. A penny saved is one cent. Look before you run into a pole. A watched pot never disappears. A rolling stone makes you flat. A rolling stone is a singing rock group. Every cloud has a wet spot. You take a banana, you get a lunar landscape. -J. van Wijk "Buffalo never Oink" -- a South Dakota travel brocure. Ken is very smart but also very opinionated. -- Doug Gwyn Anthony Burgess reports a friend's rendezvous with the ideal mannequin, all legs and no breasts. It was like going to bed with a bicycle. Narcissists receive callers without opening the door. If Bell Labs is a tree, research is a blossom, development is the fruit. You have to be careful not to get locked into Open Systems. It is likely that 2^104 is an ultimate limit on storage space, unless we want to turn New Jersy into a DRAM. -chuck@pierre.mit.edu Any worm measuring bigger than 2 metres is a big worm. - sign in Gippsland Giant Worm Museum Our first 'smoke' test showed that it is possible to hear Bob Marley and The Wailers through three feet of concrete. UX:mail: INFO: No mail. There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep I'm giving the demo so why don't you just shut up? -rob (to ast) /* I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS CRAPY CODE -- presotto */ X Moul - Ovum Testing is for bunglers. Properly designed mechanisms work properly. -E.E. Smith (Skylark 3) The Democrats just stand for `I want to be a Republican,' and the Republicans stand for raw evil. -Frank Zappa lp on plan 9 is fixed. -pg no more than 1 lp fortune per day -- rob The overhead involved in using a computer system is high enough that few people routinely use more than one. -Mike Lesk, 1980 I think we should tread very carefully on governments that are constitutionally elected. - George Bush This is my prediction for the future: whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no-one will be safe from it. -JBS Haldane I have lived in a few cities: Nairobi, Edinburgh, Bradford, London, Sydney, New York. Washington is much nicer than Nairobi. - Piers Lauder Real software has its own 800 support line. Stu Feldman Communism must be like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce HONK IF YOU'RE ENTHUSIASTIC Don't the days seem lank and long when doughnuts don't come in. Eadum sunt, quorum unum potest substitui alteri salva veritate. -Leibniz It's like sticking your hands in someone else's pants: it just doesn't feel right. NP Nelson Military intelligence can be a contradiction in terms. Recoilless rifles - aren't. A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down. The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack. If the enemy is within range, then so are you. Professionals are predictable, but the world is full of dangerous amateurs. Killing for peace is like whoring for virginity. Marine math: 2 beers times 39 Marines is 49 cases. Body Count Math: 2 VC plus 1 chicken and 3 pigs equals 37 enemy killed in action. Low expectations are the key to happiness. - Pamela Zave Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -Calvin 20 octets is 160 guys playing flutes -- rob chan[2]='m'; /* Ooh, careful! */ Many system design flaws can be traced to unwarrantedly anthropomorphizing the user. The common theme to all three of the A320 crashes is lack of altitude. -Aviation expert. Clear your screen after you log off. #define struct union /* Great space saver */ Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands. It's the only avant-garde we got. When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat. If you could become more ugly, it would help your career enormously. You have a vast capacity for becoming embarrassed on other people's behalf. You have important hair. We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following the rules of good grooming. I just hate to be pushed around by some @#$%^& machine. - Ken Thompson, on the i960 Easy reading is damned hard writing. - Sheridan After hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity. -Harlan Ellison MOVL R1, How can you write a big system without C++? -Paul Glick So, if you put a G on the front you have to put a zero on the back? -Ken As usual, please try to use a reusable mug. I'd use plan 9 before i'd use bitfields -- pjw Of the physical pages in use, 3436738592 pages are permanently allocated to VMS. February marks the fag end of Bombay's short mild winter spell. Let's share those threats Let's not beat ourselves up for being defensive There's some Jungian principles inside us There are many feedback loops into your system Time to take a stretch-break (possibly self-managed) There'll be massive chaos downstream Feel your own power We're getting lots of dysfunctional acting-out of anxiety We've got to raise this to a double-loop system We've got to keep upping the control until one of us goes nuke! The conflict has to be ritualised in order to get it addressed If you carry on, head-to-head, on `solution' you don't get anywhere That sort of `collusive carrying' just isn't on. Everybody will soon be owning their incompetence They'll be scapegoated because they have a valency for incompetence You gotta pump-prime your seed-corn You need a proactive planning horizon I want you to feel your own power Let's fix a frame on these issues and focus on the power dynamics in the room Infinite retry on parallel printer time-out A system is Unix if and only if it will compile and run everything on prep.ai.mit.edu without restrictions. Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms? It does everything Unix does only less reliably - Ken (hch:) Can't find /you/must/specify/HCDIR/bin/hc@sun41com There are tons of bad AD and DA convertors out there, but they don't make Nyquist wrong. -Marc LoCascio This is like ignoring both the speed limit and the odometer in your car. It won't get you far. -Kenneth P. Birman I didn't really expect to find elephants on the airport runway, and there weren't any. -dmr "Objective" and "subjective" are not entirely subjective. - Penn Jillette The alpha is doing a lot more computation than a lightbulb -- rob It is rarely wise to underestimate the taste of the truly pious. WAIS allows relevance feedback Once you start talking about Nothing, people think you're some sort of idiot. -John Cage Why is there only one Monopoly commission? If something could be done about cache misses, programs would run about twice as fast. -Andrew Appel mount: mount /srv/boot /n/bootes: permission denied Kudos to everyone on the WKSH Team! the application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit, because of sys. BUSINESS UNIT NEWS: o UNIX System Labs launches a torrent of announcements /bin/ls: exec header invalid If you wish to vote "No opinion" on any topic, you must cancel gut.wksh and execute gut instead. Huiswants es. Motto: Compute with fermions, communicate with bosons. -Vincent Heuring The flip side of change is trust. -George Bush We are changing the alignment, not the membership. -John Mayo The President [Bush] is just a guy who sucks in life. - White House aide At MIT the server is the unit of invention. -Rob Pike The dependency dag for a target consists of nodes connected by directed arcs. I was an asshole when you (philw) were still a gleam in your father's eye. -Bob Flandrena Beleidigungen, Beschwerden und Flames bitte an NUL schicken. Fashion, though a goddess, is a fool, and all her worshippers..are nincompoops. E. S. Barrett You advocate a lot of egg sucking but you're not very forthcoming with the eggs. Phil Winterbottom (to ken) My pile of equipment is bigger than your pile of equipment -- philw Mathematics is ... the hot and chaotic work of the devil. Quayle needn't know this. -Vaughan Pratt 51HAren't you glad you don't have to do this anymore? Virtual caches are the worst idea since register windows. - Phil Winterbottom cetus news: Cannot open /usr/news/ ``Ausserordentlich chaotisch, dissonant, und häßlich.'' -review of premiere of Beethoven's 9th Why is the text on my screen turning umop-apisdn? There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. -Ken Olsen, 1977 coproc proto viol Time wounds all heels. Live fast, die young, leave a long publication list. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 9ss.Z. Maximum number of users exceeded - try again laterConnection closed by foreign host. Connected to 192.65.218.43. When in doubt, twirl. -Ted Shawn ¿Tôø müçh öf á gòód thìng? Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -Frank Zappa Quando la neve si scioglie si vede la merda. I wonder how Plan 9 could be used to monitor shut-ins? -- L. Bernstein Semper ubi sub ubi. Lesson 10 - Who killed Bambi? 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It's possible to pick up crumbs/By pressing on them with the thumbs. The one who wants to put on airs/Should not attempt them on the stairs. The person who today is here/May by tomorrow disappear. The helpful thought for which you look/Is written somewhere in a book. A one- or two-inch piece of string/Cannot be used for anything. Upon your person keep a pill/In case you're taken deathly ill. Britain has football hooligans, Germany has neo-Nazis, and France has farmers. -The Times Government Warning: According to the Surgeon General you're going to die. Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est. Please do not urinate in the rain gauge. - sign on Mt. Kilimanjaro Nothing is worth spending a week with bureaucratic Germans. -rob The implementation should provide some reasonable value (80? 255? 509?) rather than something unusable like USHRT_MAX. - ANSI C Rationale Real data are normal in the middle and Cauchy in the tails. accom: Warning 310: restart.c, line 148: A file with no declarations or definitions is accepted as an extension to ANSI C Always go for overkill. -Lou Reed Available only for MEI designed 3.5"MO series. Do not use it absolutely in another drive. Is the tool broadly supported or maintained? You don't need rain in a movie, and you don't need ``paradigm'' in a book. - Penn Jillette Routine work drives out creative work - Arno Penzias If my career depended on dot-dot, I'd be on the dole. - philw >>>'/܇D/' panic: decref 150 years ago everybody was a Christian Scientist. dmr Featuring the Intel 14.4EX with V.42bis and MNP5 Look what David Koresh did, rather than go home and visit HIS parents! - Teller's mother It appears that people would rather have their hands on the wheel and drive off the cliff than be thrown over naked. (scj in Computing Systems) 'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit. - ken Valid license for the following required when not using dbx on kernel. Product OSF-DEV (OSF Developer's Kit): No license found. Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid. I'm pulling *something* here. - Dom Marotta From: No gas will be sold to anyone in a glass container <SKASS@DREW.DREW.EDU> Figure 1b shows how C++'s pure virtual functions turned a black box into a toroidal design (accom): tasks.c, line 7576: accom: Internal: Out of tree space. Cannot continue compilation. The current size was specified as or defaulted to -Wf,-XNh1000 giving a table size of 1000. Recompile giving a command line option to increase the table size. Example option giving a larger table: -Wf,-XNh2000 No UNIX system on the market supports more standards than DEC OSF/1. I despise the little old ladies of both sexes. -Charles Ives What does sound have to do with music? -Charles Ives YOU are welecome to Cheboxary!! I don't need any help, 'cause I'm not doing anything. -Howard ugen: warning : line 979 : ../../../../../../src/usr/ccs/bin/ugen/const_idiv.p, line 230 VAX portability is assured. Additionally, the paper [xxx] can serve as an excellent tool to help any new project introspect about how it will do business. - Jim Coplien We are not wholly an island, except geographically. - John Major I'm drawing a line under the sand. - John Major Always wear underpants beneath your kanzu before you mount your bicycle. Humiliation is intrinsically comic. - Frank Conroy C gains much of its vaunted efficiency by employing a very powerful pre-processor, usually called a ``programmer''. T-shirt: Mom and Dad invented OOP in the 70's and all I got was C++ DEC OSF/1 V1.2 Worksystem Software (Rev. 10) The installation software has successfully installed your system. BD-445G (red compact car) lights no longer on Checking system endianess... Big endian Subject: ** PROCESS CHANGE ALERT ********************** ERROR:(-)input line 8:LI:no lists active Distribution: ihlpb!pca-usi5e If Dennis Ritchie were the man who developed Modula-2 then C would be long forgotten. -Tarjei Jensen From --rw-rw-rw- Sun Aug 15 04:21:17 EDT 1993 If you're smart you'll remain ignorant - bobf They bit the wrong chicken's head off with their own teeth and got blood all over their shirt - nls Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. -Gertrude Stein A coach is someone who lives and behaves Our Common Bond, and views each coaching interaction as a real measure of truth. Free! Free!/A trip/to Mars/for 900/empty jars/Burma Shave Standards is an area that is constantly changing. -Carl Cargill (ed. ACM StandardView) This will be sexy: nothing like a good tty driver to turn you on. - Phil Winterbottom To find out a person's userid, ask him. --IBM VM/CMS Primer Blessed be the optionless, for they shall not eat gnu Every old barn can use a little paint. - Tammy Faye Bakker on Primetime Live 11/18/93 The sendmail security patch will be available in approximately two weeks. Diversity better than intensity -- Xerox PARC talk (conclusion) Sir Francis Drake circumcised the globe with a hundred foot clipper. If a train station is where a train stops, what's a workstation? I just want a bare-boned, straight EMACS. - Rae McLellan Cohesion and coupling are intertwined. SPEC results inflated by too many compiler flags. -Microprocessor Review a.out: does not have gp tables for all it's sections ?warning: write might change good version of `sendmail' Being afraid of X is about as sensible as being afraid of sendmail. I wish these damn scientists would leave intelligence to the experts. -Gen. Richard Stillwell (CIA) #include... <depending on your compiler> I don't like to spend my time on sterile discussions -- Bjarne Stroustrup, in The Evolution of C++ There is no problem so simple that management can fix it. - Dave Presotto Fat Triangles Determine Linearly Many Holes We send our young men to fight wars. Ants, at least, send their old women. - E.O. Wilson #/->/ := #/->/ *** Message content is not printable: delete, write or save it to a file *** It's a tiny change to the code and not completely disgusting. - Bob Manchek I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers. --Charlie Hall emacs: Terminal type "emacs" is not powerful enough to run Emacs. xterm: Error 50, errno 1: Too big RMS was neither ignorant nor lying. He simply used word choices that created confusion. User Needs Drive IS To Wherehouse -- OS Today headline Probably not a complicated question - how does the mount driver work? - C.R. Kalmanek Subject: no subject (file transmission) If you find any unidentified object under your seat, please do not attempt to smoke it. ML is a language for people with excess IQ points. - John Ousterhout The Big Bang theory: In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Someone's searching for sex in the 800 database. 1181258 SAVECORE SEGMENTATION FAULT WHILE TRYING TO SAVE CORE Middleware is the implementation of a concept. - Ed Szurkowski FOUND IN SUPPOSEDLY EMPTY EQUIPMENT, MATTOON, IL POST OFFICE 61938 To back up the 57th platter in the file system type 'wormingest 49; wormcp 62 49'. /n/a:/100377-15/sun3/4.1.1/sendmail: Ascii & Extended Latin & Cyrillic & Hebrew text Not responsible for errors in typo. This is AT&T. Communication is our business, not our mode of working. - Jim Clemans How much clearer everything is when you underline! - Ron Hardin Improve our mechanisms for sharing BU and "white space" opportunities knowledge and laboratory and center capabilities so as to assure optimal use of contrained resources. The Internet grows hyperbolically, but is usually described elliptically. - Dr. Internet Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility. Many will urinate with joy in having shared in the hacking of your neck. - a comment on netnews [Acting] was a lot more difficult than modeling. There's a lot to remember. -Cindy Crawford Everything that can ever be invented has been invented -Charles H. Duell, Commisioner of U.S. Patents, 1899. The complex-type shall be a simple-type. ISO 10206:1991 (Extended Pascal) The "do one thing well" philosophy underlying UNIX is best realized in a fully object-oriented environment. - some Linux guy Subject: slip:UX:killall: INFO: killing pid 140 <routed> There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users". - Edward Tufte I think you have to really be an engineer to run a technology company. - Bill Gates hd2: model oCnnreP repieharsl6 with default 1471 cyl 5 head 17 sec I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job - George Bush, during his first Presidential campaign This is a great day for France! - Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change. - Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind-or not to have a mind. How true that is. - Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at. - George Bush, on the Alaska pipeline I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is what drives me. - George Bush Mondale: George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize. Bush: Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time. #define n_zeroes _n._n_n._n_zeroes To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other. Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff. Sorry, the passowrd you asked for is too long. Please choose a password that is 2147459392 to 8 characters long. Television is a medium. So called because it is neither rare, nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9. This is the best recruiting season we've ever had. - Ken Thompson, Dec 21, 1995 Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate that! Press Ctlt-Ds Ctlt-Del a to reboour reboour mach cfe: Warning 712: irix.c, line 311: illegal combination of pointer and integer .... ? ( (((long)*arg & 0x1) ?(*arg = (char *)((long)*arg + 7),(char *)((long)*arg-6-_VA_FP_SAVE_AREA)) :(((long)*arg & 0x2) ?(*arg = (char *)((long)*arg +10),(char *)((long)*arg-24-_VA_FP_SAVE_AREA)) :( ((*arg)=(char *)(((unsigned int)(((char *)*arg)+((__builtin_alignof( long))>4?(__builtin_alignof( long)):4)-1)) & -((__builtin_alignof( long))>4?(__builtin_alignof( long)):4)) + (((unsigned int)(((char *)sizeof( long))+((4)>4?(4):4)-1)) & -((4)>4?(4):4)) ), (((char *)*arg) - ((((unsigned int)(((char *)sizeof( long))+((4)>4?(4):4)-1)) & -((4)>4?(4):4)) - sizeof( long))) ) ))) : ( ((*arg)=(char *)(((unsigned int)(((char *)*arg)+((__builtin_alignof( long))>4?(__builtin_alignof( long)):4)-1)) & -((__builtin_alignof( long))>4?(__builtin_alignof( long)):4)) + (((unsigned int)(((char *)sizeof( long))+((4)>4?(4):4)-1)) & -((4)>4?(4):4)) ), (((char *)*arg) - ((((unsigned int)(((char *)sizeof( long))+((4)>4?(4):4)-1)) & -((4)>4?(4):4)) - sizeof( long))) ) )))[-1] ); Here in Nuremberg, information hiding is much more popular in the organization than it is in the software... yes >/dev/kmem # Shutdown is broken. This'll have to do "No one steals our chicks," sneers Duke, "and lives." You must engineer for the technology curve and set the intercepts to match the emerging business markets. - Phil Winterbottom Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß mann schweigen. When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb. -- Steve Hoflich, compl.lang.c++ This is SGI Bug #375613. If mamma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. error code 4A: Could not free fingers from storage slot after insert At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1. You are thehttp://counter.digits.com/wc/-d/4/cpluscounter visitor since May 1, 1996 It's hard to compete with conventional cukes. PEALSE CAN YOU ADIVE ME WHAT TO DO :) License Error : The license for this product(SPARCompiler C) has expired ARMY FOCUSES ON SECOND BASE IN SEX PROBE In Pursuit of Software Excellence: If you want to become a leader, follow the leaders. Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas In label expressions, <> expressions are ignored inside .char expressions. I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal in: Lettres Provinciales, #4, Dec 14, 1665 If I had more time, I should have written you a shorter letter. Mdm. de Staël (1766-1817) UNIX geek since 486651600 Speed is more important than anything else in management. - Henry Schacht No proper program contains an indication which as an operator-applied occurrence identifies an operator-defining occurrence which as an indication-applied occurrence identifies an indication-defining occurrence different from the one identified by the given indication as an indication-applied occurrence. - Algol 68 Report Cwm fjord bank glyphs vex't quiz. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington Clearspeak also is a euphemism for what advertising people call the "dominant brand" or "masterbrand" approach. - Bell Labs News, April 1, 1997 (but not April Fool's) My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. - Penn Jillette Note: gtest.java uses a deprecated API. Recompile with "-deprecation" for details. Malcolm [grandson of Malcolm X] walked into court yesterday afternoon to face charges of juvenile delinquency, mumbling and hiding his head under a red plaid blanket. - N. Y. Times Usenet is like letters to the editor, only without an editor. - Larry Wall Who are you going to believe? Me or that lying sheep? -- Jim McKie Line 3 of "/usr/add-on/trouble/bin/trouble": syntax error; saw '<'. Undefined: "Main" I don't think you can really know how heavy something is until it has fallen on you. --LeMel Hebert-Williams I don't think so, therefore I'm probably not. --Alan Smithee Are you sure you want to send 'Pleonasm' to the recycle bin? The days of the digital watch are numbered. -Tom Stoppard ^Eds: SUBS 3rd graf, `So what's ...' to remove accent from 'derriere.' WELL YOU MISSED IT. I WAS ON THE RADIO AND WAS IN A CONTEST TO WIN FLEETWOOD MAC TICKETS. I WAS MCNICKOLS. I WORE A TUTU AND POURED 2 GAL. OF HERSHY CHOC. OVER MY HEAD. I GOT 2ND A GIRL IN A TEDDY EATING DOG FOOD AND BARKING WON. 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Shaney Will the call be routed on the same switch or will it go out over a truck to another switch? I may be a bad woman, but I'm awfully good company. - Fanny Brice apmd[105]: On-line: * * * (100% unknown) P.P.S. Thanks for helping make BUY.COM the #l online computer retailer. I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching. - Jack Handey I only lie to the ones I don't like, the ones who ask stupid questions. The proofs of the associative, commutative, and distributive laws for the integers are exercises in induction which might be called ``Peano playing.'' - An algebra textbook The observation could be "a real break-through" in osteoporosis treatment. - Science magazine Life is very strange - compared to what? - Penn Jillette Your search for difficentralia returned 0 article(s). 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I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?' - Emo Philips --rwxr-xr-x M 9501 geoff geoff 1417216 Dec 30 14:16 . log10: SING error -- borland c/c++ 3.1 You have the power to write your own fortune. .NOTICE; ;?This comment is definitely out of date If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving is not for you. boot: nop...cfs...session...no physical memory doofus is God-like The quantity specified for 3Com Palm Vx is too great. We only have -1 available. - some e-commerce site. Man-animals cannot fly! 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Even if you could revive someone who has died, you haven't really done anything that deals with that person's central problem, which is sin. Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to sharpen sticks. - Thant Tessman A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste better than tree bark. - Thant Tessman (Of course SML does have its weaknesses, but by comparison, a discussion of C++'s strengths and flaws always sounds like an argument about whether one should face north or east when one is sacrificing one's goat to the rain god.) - Thant Tessman C++ is history repeated as tragedy. 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On the Internet nobody knows you're running Plan 9. - Jim McKie Deleted code is debugged code. - Jeff Sickel DEAR ALL, I am newbie! pls guide me, Google does not appear to be in the kludge-making business ... - Ashlee Vance, The Register ** the "time" argument is mandatory! (try "now") ** Revision control is like any other form of accountancy -- worthy but dull. -forsyth There are but 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand the binary numbering system and those who don't. we live in a world of dogmas, probably trying to fight it with a stronger dogma is a bad idea, but trying to fight it with preumpted objectivism clearly doesn't work. - uriel Equations are the devil's sentences. - Stephen Colbert cpu: can't dial: plan9.lanl.gov: The operation completed successfully. A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt. - Dutch proverb Nothing is good enough for the fortune file! - Dan Cross Tried to read 71776119061217303 bytes. 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Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive that point home. - Linus Torvalds on vmsplice() versus COW Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness - Seneca (according to Poe) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery bucket = Buckets + pe; /* bucket = &(Buckets[pe]); */ Those who can do, those who can't write and those who can't write make ezines. - Sape Command (m for help): `the dreaded Wordstar, the Wordprocessor that Time joined the Foreign Legion to Forget.' - Verity Stob Please contact nicfae@realtek.com.tw for singing NDA form. /home/jmk/.wvdial.conf<Warn>: Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT edit this file by hand!" 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As low as possible isn't a number yet - Ron Minnich Tip: Save time by hitting the return key instead of clicking on "search". what bug does this fix that you think you've fixed that addresses this particular bug? - erik quanstrom With functional programming languages, you can never make small mistakes, only very large ones. - Kedar Namjoshi Subject: Departs: 7:00 PM Thu Dec 02 2010 Washington, DC - Union Station (WAS) Station News Arrives: 9:16 PM Thu Dec 02 2010 Metropark- Iselin, NJ (MET) Metropark-Iselin, NJ Metropark-Iselin (MET) Station News PT2H16M Duration: 2 hr, 16 min (Internal Document ITD-10-49997V) complete SoC on a chip - Tilera There is no application installed for executable files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file? There's no 'I' in team, but there's a 'u' in suck. There are no pastel paints in the dungeons and dragons world. - Rob Pike The guys who invented autoconf/automake/configure/libtool must have been drug addicts. - Garbeam <anothy_x> it always seems bizarre to me when people are doing anything new-ish in asn.1. i expect to documentation to be written in old english or norse runes or something. A futurist is just an early revisionist. - Tim Newsham Dis code doesnt fuck arround - cinap_lenrek ssh, the emacs of network protocols A libertarian is a conservative who has been arrested. A libertarian is a liberal who learned economics. FIST-philosophy: Fuck It Sucks Terribly -- n0nsense speaking about dbus in #suckless people who wear clever computing shirts are the opposite of samurais - Capso CL's loop is so powerful that people invented functional programming so that they'd never have to use it. - G_Morgan Ruby on Rails, the PHP of a new generation. - beefhooked You should use an in-memory SQL database! It's the answer to all data structure questions. - Ian Lance Taylor every time i look at main.go, i get hungry - dho you throw humans into lions? Wouldn't that anger animal rights evangelists? Don't you have to cook the humans first? - 20h Dr. Strange Love: How I Learned to Stop Being a Fag and Love the Clit - Capso gentoo|gen-poo| noun - 1. The sport of hitting compiler bugs. op-ti-mize [verb (trans.)]* ... (gcc) to modify executable code so that it fails more quickly. Cloud stands for: I'm too stupid to know about the server client concept. - 20h PGD_DDCANCREATED3DBUFFER pfnDdCanCreateD3DBuffer = (PGD_DDCANCREATED3DBUFFER)gpDxFuncs[DXG_INDEX_DxDdCanCreateD3DBuffer].pfn; OSX is the operating system personification of the Bourgeoisie tendancy towards hedonistic uselessness <kfx> there should be a way to compile without -Wulrich spaceinvader@oftc.net#suckless> rms doesn't wash his clothes because the washing machine might have binary firmware vt3@freenode#plan9> well, philosophy and plan 9 have something in common...they are both dead. major@freenode#vsta> uriel, understanding is like love, it comes to those who accept it, not to those who beat it with a stick ;) zcram@freenode#cat-v> "Mebibyte" sounds something an earthworm would yell when it is being put on a fishHook. <kfx@freenode#cat-v> [...] is it like #freebsd where networking questions are met with complaints about george bush? garbeam@freenode@cat-v> my proposal is that github needs a button on each project "Report spam" button WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A KNIFE EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE AN OLD PERSON - ASCII Art Farts <kfx@freenode#cat-v> TAOCP is fucking crucial, it's what allows you to explain to your python-obsessed boss exactly why python, mathematically, can go fuck itself __20h__@freenode#cat-v> 1 yb (yard bit) = PI / 3 + 0.2143 eb (european bit) "Can you hammer a spike through a six inch board with your penis?" "Not right now." "Well, a girl has got to have her standards, you know?" -- Real Genius perhaps Plan 9 is just the Black Books of software? - Charles H. Forsyth zcram@freenode#cat-v> Clown commuting! Trust your valuable data with us! We know how to take good care of it. Our technititians are 24/7 working on making best effort to sustain first-class enterprise level utilisation of important details. this change placates the "paxctl" tool on so-called hardened Linux distributions (as if normal distributions weren't already hard enough to use). - Russ Cox Why you are so obsessed by wildly mixing politics with your failure to understand... that there is no inconsistency in formating of composite literals and that type declarations are not the same construct? -- befelemepeseveze answer to Joan Miller in the go-lang-nuts mailinglist <soul9> friend just travelled to sierra leone: he didn't have enough bandwidth for xmpp. irc was working fine <kfx> haskell is [a domain specific language], specific to the .edu domains <kfx> I gave a 'brief history of php' presentation once about how one of the core devs quit because he hated jews and the most prolific scurity dev quit because nobody listened to him about all the horrible shit he found Even if you think that a lobotomized flatworm could understand your instructions, your luser probably won't. -- alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ <Athas> Well, Linux printing was designed and implemented by people working to preserve the rainforest by making it utterly impossible to consume paper. In IEEE 754 sqrt(-0) = -0 <aiju#plan9> Ein Netzwerk [network], Ein OS, Ein Hase [bunny] <EthanG#cat-v> rc isn't syntactic sugar so much as a small but nicely balanced meal. Not quite substantial enough to be a steak, perhaps it's a fisherman's pie. Bourne shell is more like a raisin and bacon pie with a sprinkling of sugared corn flakes on top. <kfx#cat-v> "Adobe May Change To Monthly Patch Cycle" sounds suspiciously close to "Adobe May Change To Monthy Python Cycle" I've talked myself into a superstition. - rob pike awk with their heads! -- stanleylieber <sqweek#inferno> oh wow, [in acme-sac] up and down arrows move the cursor instead of scrolling, that's... kind of annoying [The] MIT/X [license] is the best balance between "Keep respect to me." and Kim-Jong Uriel['s] "yes, build your physical package with it." -- Christoph Lohmann Mastering css is like mastering throwing shit into a fan -- dreadlorde Don't make your internal product name 'assmonkey', or you'll wind up with a real product named 'assmonkey' -- bramcohen he's a ruby programmer. sex won't be biologically feasible for him for a few more years -- kfx I honestly and deeply hope you fail completely. - Uriel regarding a project to convert arXiv to XHTML/MathML Metadata is always true! -- 20h The bikeshed has already been painted, and the painter has gone. -- Russ Cox on a proposal for changing the Go syntax. There's no sense in reading books, when there's a computer game. -- 20h on Dune Incestuous necrophilia. -- A literary fetish practiced by Brian Herbert and Christopher Tolkien among others. Facebook is an online social Dawn of the Dead. Sign up to network and thousands of people you vaguely remember are trying to eat your brain. -- found by EthanG on someone's... twitter feed. The X documentation is full of lies. -- Theo de Raadt <jordanb#emacs@freenode.org> I think it's hilarious that you're doing xlib programming and your nick is 'kruhft' [software security] placebos need to keep getting more complex to keep working. -- EthanG Should I be concerned that I've been rebuilding main on amd64/i386/powerpc for the last ~12 hours and nothing's failed yet? Success is almost always indicative of impending doom. -- Adam Conrad, on building Ubuntu packages <blizzard> Mitch_Bradley_: I had dinner with the guy who created EFI the other night <cjb> blizzard: during the dinner, did he start wishing he had some kind of piercing implement to eat with, and then proceed to design and implement it? <uriel> fuck plan9 <aiju> [the] W3C couldn't make bread without at least three different comitees and several hundred megabytes of XML involved If you love job security and don't respect yourself, you will love Perl. -- xardox in reddit/r/proramming 1975: EWD506 page 2: The German adoption of ALGOL 68 has had a similarly paralyzing effect upon the Germans as the Russian decision in the late sixties to develop as their next national computer series a bit-compatible copy of the IBM 360 - the greatest American victory in the cold war! (PDF) The password you entered is invalid. Remember to use only letters, numbers, and underscores in your password. <ment> i hope there is some dishonesty otherwise i would be very disappointed in mankind <jse> If you've ever observed how these modern people (SIC) treat their pets and their kids, you can tell it's the tail that wags the dog. Harry Potter is the worst thing to happen to the printed word since the Web. -- kfx <dv-> i don't understand why firefox uses cpu% even when it's not doing anything <kfx> [firefox] is always doing something, even if it's just calculating the opportune moment to crash inexplicably <EthanG> C++, the programming language which is nearest to human language yet! It has achieved context-dependance, what a great step! <aiju> EthanG: does C++ have insults yet? <uriel> C++ *is* an insult <via> there's a reason linux users don't use lilo anymore, it [is] called progress <martian67> if progress is grub2, i guess im a luddite when in rome, FUCK THE ROMANS -- Capso I use Plan 9. Which is equivalent to saying I don't use computers. By transitivity, it's the smarter choice. -- Capso Linux - every program, package, piece of code, depends on some shit that will make you want to scoop out your brains with a melonballer -- Capso using debian is like deciding you want your computer to be run by the [Ministry of Information Retival] in the movie Brazil -- kfx 100% of the shit I make up about Linux turns out to be true. Either now or in the future. -- Capso Linux is the embodiment of Plato's philosophy: by the time you have a shitty idea, it already exists in the mythical world of Linux. -- Capso Whatever you want, wchar_t is not the solution. -- Moritz Wilhelmy the scene leaves anime alone because anime is the domain of wolf-shirted mouthbreathing aspergers-suffering lardasses -- kfx ktsuss stands for "keep the su simple, stupid", and as the name says, is a graphical version of su written in C and GTK+ 2. <andguent> 9P AND HTTP ARE THE SAME. JUST LIKE BICYCLES AND SUBMARINES. I REST MY CASE. all bridges conceal trolls -- Stanley Lieber <kfx> why does gnu ls link against libpthread <sl> kfx: both begin with l, right <jse> When in doubt... link it. <__20h__> I get horny, when people call XML exml. [ 35.998] (II) Integrated Camera: Configuring as keyboard calling Kant's philosophy bullshit seems a bit harsh to me, actual bullshit has practical applications as a fertilizer -- aiju If terrorists hate us for our freedom, does that mean they're starting to love us? Voting is an essential part of the bureaucratic process. romanticism: pick something random evil and terrible, convince yourself it's actually good and utopic, ???, PROFIT -- aiju using a GUI is like being a sub in BDSM. your every action is constrained... -- EthanG In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man would poke his eye out to fit in. -- auntbeast [Parrot/Perl 6 are] "the right thing" + Perl, thats some sign of the apoclypse -- martian67 Arsenic and Old Libc The Importance of Being EMACS The Comedy of Errnos Much ADA About Nothing if the Berkeley folks designed a spoon, it would be part of the dishwasher -- aiju The Russian equivalent of 'rubber-hose cryptanalysis' is 'thermorectal cryptoanalysis', which refers to a joke about using rectal insertion of a soldering iron. OOP spelled backwards is POO puritanism is the fear that somebody somehwere, someplace might be happy martian67: cat-v is the fear that somebody somehwere, someplace might be happy with their software kfx: cat-v is the fear that somebody, somewhere isn't fucking martian67's mother in the ass <martian67> becoming a hacker is very tao like, you become it by not caring about becoming it <sl> becoming a janitor is very tao like, stop yapping and pick up a broom izaki: There should be a project to port spanish swearing to the international community... open-hostia martian67: there you go uriel, there is the cat-v draw: an international effort to tell everyone to go fuck themselves welcome to #cat/b/ reasonably priced speech <kfx> getting involved with the AUR is like fucking a fat chick to make yourself gay <kfx> GLIB: Gay/Lesbian/Indeterminate/Bisexual - The library package that will fuck ANYTHING I want to type Tab at the beginning of an empty file and suddenly my new project appears. -- 20h on tab-completion cat-v.org - refuge for promiscuous women Graham's number (n.): the number of Ranma Saotome's fiances trolling is freedom, trolling is peace, trolling is our revolution! -- 20h we [people of #cat-v] should get renamed to cat --warning_level verbose -- aiju [6523481.895302] Out of memory: Kill process 9452 (java) score 463 or sacrifice child once I did software for the military, it was a requirement that the ratio between comments and code was at least 2.5. -- Aram 1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." -- From a brief history of programming languages. "You'd better click something or I'll have to ship you some books." -- Dogbert on his 'Zero clicks Purchase' patent. If you're in need of a good startup idea: Claim a patent for crossing fingers to build a luck generator. -- mono in hackernews BIND people could put security holes into a hello world program -- aiju http://cat--show-nonprinting.org/ if Darwin truly did have an uncut copy of Mendel\u2019s work, it is quite an exhortation to read all your email. -- John Carmack "why would you do that" "what didn't ken do" "what would rob mock" "what would dennis say something nice about while simultaneously implying that you are a fucking moron" sweet I'll click a reddit link to find out what fast-food employees think about programming -- kfx Rebooting with dbus+hal: dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.Hal" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Shutdown I hear the chicks in Dresden used to be hot -- kfx Error: opening audio device: Success <kfx> __20h__: I'm an internationally ratified ISO standard. <__20h__> kfx, are you XML based? <kfx> no, asn.1 <Tanami> plan 9 has a thriving and friendly community assert(assert(assert(assert(assert(assert(1)))))) /* check for cosmic radiation */ <chowder> hello all. I'm interested in plan9 but I really don't know much about it. I have yet to read all of the docs but I was wondering if anyone was interested in porting wayland to plan9 <cinap_lenrek> i just know pokemon exception handling... catch them all The Universal Serial Bus is a complex and, therefore, a popular bus on personal computers and other devices. - nemo treating info as a replacement for man pages is arrogance beyond any rational description. Then again, the quality of documentation for most GNU software matches that of the code. -- Lyndon Nerenberg it's like instead of taking a bath, you buy a monster air filter, so no one will notice the stench. -- erik quanstrom on the creation of GNU info to manage Emac's documentation. <aiju> ken is one of the parts you need to make an uriel <aiju> a bit of Ken, a bit of Friedman, a bit of Jesus and Hitler as a solvent <EthanG> aiju: I 'heard' that to the tune of Mambo Number 5 This can't be what you mean. http.Handle("/foo", http.TimeoutHandler(h, 3600e9, "fail whale")) will work for the first hour and then send 503s forever after. That's only useful if you're trying to implement Twitter. <Capso> Freud retroactively copied Dahl when he entitled his manifesto, "The Growth and Maintenance of Nazi Household Naming Complexity: From Birth to a Dysfunction Future" <martian67> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hdd-ssd-data-encryption-notebook-hdd,12595.html <martian67> once again plan9 is way ahead of the curve <martian67> its had a filesystem that automaticly destroys data for years now aiju's plan9 faq - Q: does plan9 have ... ? A: no <kfx> what just happened to my net connection <sl> kfx: maybe the people you steal wifi from are filing their taxes with turbo tax. <kfx> no way I'm totally paying for this connection now <sl> kfx: maybe the people who steal wifi from you are filing their taxes with turbo tax. <kfx> this is south baltimore <kfx> these people all hire jews for that EFI should be renamed to WTFI -- aiju aiju: ACPI -- Abominable Crap Produced by Intel hilter was a filesystem -- Capso Markov These appliances offer an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of SOA while simultaneously enabling you to leverage the value of your existing application, security, and networking infrastructure investments. -- Actual description of IBM's "XML Firewall" appliance. enterprise product descriptions are also written by Markov bots -- aiju EthanG briefly ponders filing fhs.pdf under books/fiction Plan 9 software has more contradicting versions than the bible -- aiju <cinap_lenrek> troff is the assembly language of text setting, lots of newlines <martian67> and what exactly is A :) <aiju> the last time someone tried to unify europe he killed himself after his dog died <martian67> well that depends on your definition of earliest i guess Solaris is always different from everything else, almost by definition. Being stuck using Solaris makes being stuck using Linux look like a birthday party. -- Russ Cox <cinap_lenrek> throw a cat on a keyboard... and you will see characters you'v never seen! <uriel> cinap_lenrek: with a cat on the keyboard you will see colored blinking text on a rio terminal < anth_x> when i did trade shows, i had a copy of the X11 manual, volume 0, and a copy of the various draw man pages. it was a good illustration. <aiju> photoshop a hypothetical book containing all X11 source code, and compare it to the earth-moon distanec BDD is a second-generation, outside-in, pull-based, multiple-stakeholder, multiple-scale, high-automation, agile methodology. It describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the delivery of working, tested software that matters. There's nothing wrong with shooting, just as long as the right people get shot. -- Harry Callahan <maht> so 9fans is like war poetry from the trenches of world war 1 thank christ they don't 'design' knives -- Boyd Ekke, Ekke, Ekke, Ekke, Ptang, Zoo boing! Imagine a giant cock flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant cock. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant cock rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant cock is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant cock slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant cock finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4 maybe 5 hours. That's what using a Mac OS X is like. -- anonymous <martian67> well that depends on your definition of earliest i guess An error report was not generated. gawk (GNU awk) is another free software implementation and the only implementation that made serious attempts at implementing Internationalization and localization and TCP/IP networking. I wonder, though, if we could operate acme as a window manager like, say, wmii. -- Mauricio CA OMG! They're still using TABLES! Only the brightest and the best. -- BoingBoing comment, re: cia.gov Doug McIlroy doesn't have an Erdos number; Erdos has a McIlroy number. Doug McIlroy doesn't make system calls. System calls call Doug McIlroy. Doug McIlroy can create 3-ended pipes. Doug McIlroy doesn't debug. He stares at tty0 until it fixes the problem. Doug McIlroy's programs don't need a garbage collector; they pick up their OWN garbage. Once, Doug McIlroy got mad at his terminal and smacked the keyboard. The result is called "Unix." Alan Turing always wanted to win a McIlroy Award, but didn't qualify. No one has. In 1984, the Department of Justice broke up AT&T because they had a monopoly. On Doug McIlroy. <uriel> god i'm dead Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. -- Ben Rich Saw comment // NEW BOOST CODE, and had a moment of panic before realizing it was vehicle boost, not C++ boost -- John Carmack While attempting its first overseas deployment to the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on 11 February 2007, a group of six Raptors flying from Hickam AFB, Hawaii experienced multiple computer crashes coincident with their crossing of the 180th meridian of longitude (the International Date Line). also, plan9front claims to include a working go compiler. what did they do? -- Russ Cox <Tanami> plan 9 has a thriving and friendly community on the internet, no one knows you're ken thompson -- sl VEGETARYAN -- Seen on a Hipster Hitler t-shirt. os.Open opens the in-kernel databases, called files -- Aiju on Go's stdlib lack of database access libraries. <aiju> i like how 2011 cell phones emulate 1970 modems <ment> glenda is 19 years old, she wants to go out and have some fun, not to be locked in attic and get molested by her uncle <aiju> is he building the GNU ark? two of each feature .. If someone was too disgusted with the 9front people, he could fork 9front too... -- John Floren I'm about to make lunch. Should I build a community around it or merge it back into the main tree to prevent it from being worthless? -- aiju Go conceived while waiting for 45 min gcc compilation <uriel> jerking off 22 commits, that's not bad for a girl -- ment People who think that userspace filesystems are realistic for anything but toys are just misguided. -- Linus Torvalds <kfx> google+ just suggested lennart poettering as a friend. Q: The configure script is stuck in an infinite loop. A: It's not. The Courier mail server is made up of over thirty modular pieces, and each one has its own configure script. All configure scripts are recursively executed. configure scripts are generated off a template, and share a lot of common code, so when configure runs, it seems like the same script is being executed over and over again. General Norton Schwartz has said that the software is the biggest factor that might delay the USAF's initial operational capability which is now scheduled for April, 2016. -- John Reed writing for dodbuzz.com, Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 5:34 pm But in 2011 it was revealed that only 50% of the eight million lines of code had actually been written and that it would take another six years and 110 additional software engineers in order to complete the software for this new schedule. Unlike previous aircraft, such as the F-22, all software for the F-35 is written in C++ for faster code development. -- Eric Branyan, vice president and deputy program manager for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program at Lockheed Martin <sl> java applications give me lots of time to catch up on my reading. Ruby. Take nicely formatted Python and vomit all over it with random characters. -- The Angry Developer cat-v.org? What was that website that attacked gentoo? It was named after a compiler flag. -- some /g/tard <kfx> c++ programmers wouldn't know an integer if it was wedged inside them (#go-nuts) <ww> ACTION wishes LaTeX were more like Go The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? -- Uncle Charlie The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old? -- Uncle Charlie I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true. - Ann Newton I'm trying to keep my mind free of things that don't matter. - Ann Newton To change your password, please insure that your browser has pop-up windows enabled. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. <aiju> 9front will have resource spoons <maht> my worst problem holistic: I'm forced into using PHP to build XML to post items from MySQL to eBay's. The sum of the parts is sqrt(-1) <laochailan> googling "OOP in ANSI C" is the best recipe for a sleep full of horrible nightmares <flags> aiju, why use sed when I can make it a thousand times more complicated in Python <crazy2be> [XMPP] should use YAML inside their xml tags, make it easier to read <anschelsc> So, I've read about how horrible html and its descendants are <sl> anschelsc: computers are horrible, do you have a solution for that? <kfx> writing the documentation in aramaic and printing it on the backs of live wolverines is better than docbook <aiju> ah, philosophy has a use <aiju> i'm using the thick nietzsche book from preventing the window to fall shut, i should have bought the kant one, would be better <aiju> XML at least enforces some structure, YAML is just bashing your head to the keyboard and let the YAML parser figure out the rest <cinap_lenrek> stop bullshitting (#plan9) <Gardner> Hi, is this a good place to ask newbie questions about p9p and acme? (#plan9) <jaredj> hooray! plan9.bell-labs.com is back up! It can make you doubt yourself, or even worse, force you to adopt a behavior you don't want to. Your world can turn into a crazy, competitive, self-questioning altworld if you're not careful [...] Twitter and Github are the best things to happen to open source since IRC. But as soon as someone says a software project is "retarded", unfollow them. Don't let anyone cramp your style. This brings an important point, sometimes you can't avoid collaborating on a project with some hotshot asshole who also happens to be a good programmer. However, please call me out if I ever slip. Stuff like this needs to be said over and over again. I've been thinking for a while (and sporadically talking about) that maybe it's time Mozilla put together some sort of simple-but-real social contract that would form a baseline for acceptable & expected behaviour in our various communities. There are other open source projects that have implemented something similar, and it seems to be pretty effective. ...and this is why many of us choose to write Ruby. This is awesome. I feel the same way and have for years. what is going to happen to everybodys computers? rockets are like bootloaders, they have multiple stages and explode half of the time -- aiju The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth ... and kill! ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed. The probe, which criticized the US Army for turning a blind eye to Blackwater abuses, found that in one incident a US officer signed over hundreds of AK-47s intended for Afghan forces to an individual from Blackwater's Counter Narcotics Training Unit who signed for them as "Eric Cartman." Finding your own problem is where everything interesting starts. -- Momus Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript Anonymous claims to have erased four gigabytes worth of source code [...] -- DefenseNews, Hacker Group Claims Hit on U.S. Defense Contractor, Published: 12 Jul 2011 12:54 (#cat-v) <cinap_lenrek> plan9 has a driver for this In his speech, Lynn reiterated that the U.S. may well respond to cyberattacks with physical force. [...] Efforts on the part of Motorola and IBM to popularize PReP/CHRP failed when Apple, IBM, and Taligent all failed to provide an operating system that could run on it and when Apple and IBM couldn't reach agreement on whether the reference design must or must not have a parallel port. <cinap_lenrek> my harddrives make strange noises We have no performance margins left; so this project, instead of being 10 times as hard as anything we have done, is 12 times as hard. This matches the design number, and is obviously right. -- Kelly Johnson The cast spent three weeks learning how to type, rollerblade and got to know each other. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) I knew nothing about the PowerPC and had no idea how to modify my software to run on it. One August night, after dinner, two guys showed up to announce that they would camp out in my office until the modification was done. The three of us spent the next six hours editing fifty thousand lines of code. The secret to programming is having smart friends. -- Former Apple engineer <sl> at least he's not sexist. (#cat-v) <aiju> it's hard not to get trolled in #go-nuts Dickerson explained the change today on Etsy's blog, saying that his focus as the new CEO will be to impel Etsy to move faster "and more purposefully", and re-prioritize risk-taking and "learning by doing" and "iterating." (#cat-v) <cinap_lenrek> aiju: i had the correct code in my head Connection to Microsoft Exchange has been restored. /* ok for now. */ (#cat-v) <aiju > the Chan will panic if you do anything with it <aiju> green is the 2011 way of saying "expensive" <sl> headline: 9FRONT REJECTS SOCIAL CONTRACT <aiju> my definition of race condition: if user.skin == black { "the socialists discovered that their plan creates poverty, so they changed their name to environmentalists and made poverty their goal" linux just trumps osx so hard it's hard to believe they descend from the same code base anyone who uses the terminal in linux is pretty stupid considering that most of its commands have solid stable gui equivalents these days <ment> respect my certficate authoritah! <aiju> if PCRE doesn't support a feature, the PCRE guys just haven't heard of it <sl> if the general populace realized computers relied upon mathematics they would stop using the internet immediately <cinap_lenrek> did someone put a mount in your mount so you can walk while you walk? <aiju> how does "" work there? (#go-nuts) <wrtp> i thought it was quite clear, but maybe i'm just more on rob's wavelength... <kfx> 9front has always been at war with 9atom. <kfx> "The object of writing a filesystem is always to be in a better position in which to write another filesystem." <kfx> If you want a picture of the fossil, imagine a boot stamping on a hard drive -- forever. <kfx> All filesystems in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the data upon their users. <kfx> It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered files in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best filesystems, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already. <kfx> You have to get used to computing without results and without hope. <kfx> you guys are surely cynical, but neither of you worked for the United States Government as long as I did <sl> the government is best suited to manage nuclear weapons because they could not possibly successfully conduct a nuclear war. (#plan9) <dpic> aiju: why does everyone hate 9front? No. -- Theo de Raadt No. -- Rob Pike No. -- aiju Bite my shiny metal ass. -- Rob Pike I hear that C++0x is a substantially upgraded language. -- Rob Pike I prefer deskside computers over laptops because they're much harder to throw in frustration when dealing with incompetent web sites. -- Rob Pike iOS4.3 lets you decide whether the side switch is mute or rotate lock. Operating system innovations never cease. -- Rob Pike Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ... -- - xorg.conf(5) manual page <EthanG> if your command needs an info page, it has a more urgent need to be buried and forgoten <cinap_lenrek> staring at catclock -> being artist 24h a day! craftd keeps modern UNIX daemon philosophy in mind. This includes best practice like async polling I/O, multi-threading, and use of high quality libraries whenever possible. <aiju> i only use high quality organic libraries from local farmers <sl> this discussion causes autism. <sl> autism rates increase in tandem with tax rates. <quintile> if your kids aren't narcissists then there is probably somthing wrong with them. <aiju> RoR lacks support for self-signing-oriented NoSQL-based XML over YAML shader-based metadata-oriented solution <aiju> programming is serious business, no place for hippie lovefests The telephone, like the telegraph, post office and the railroad, is only upon extraordinary occasions used or needed by the poor. It is demanded, and daily depended upon, and should be liberally paid for by the capitalist, mercantile, and manufacturing classes. -- Charles Fay commenting on Bell's telephone charges in 1887 <kfx> I approve of 9front's method of handling bug reports: bug is filed -> attempting to view bug crashes google server -> SUCCESS <aiju> Masturbation has many applications, e.g. aerodynamics or quantum theory. <__20h__> The only reason for me to learn French was to be able to order beer in the western provinces. <__20h__> [when we invade France] we will first teach all of you German and the German mindset. The first concept we will introduce is called >>work<<. <landley> My general theory is that anything directly involved with the gnu project is run by crazy politicians who only do software as a sideline to their religious advocacy work. Compound interest is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. -- Albert Einstein From his instructor he inherited the position of soke (headmaster) of nine ryu (schools of martial arts).[citation needed] Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight! When I started doing this stuff with Unix, I wasn't a very good programmer. -- Bill Joy You should also run /usr/sbin/userdel _dbus Afraid to commit to booting native Plan-9 until I'm sure I can get openbox, firefox, and chromium-browser working on it. what's the opinion of the catholic church according to condoms on dildos? -- 20h apple developers are like abused wives -- martian67 As much as I like the design of Plan 9, I also like surfing the web. It would be nice to boot Plan 9 natively on AMD-64, type startx, and open a browser. Unfortunately, I'm not at a level where I can really contribute to getting Plan 9 to that point. The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and can open a web-browser. I was using "startx" in the figurative sense. Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability. Are you sure you're on the right website? (#go-nuts) <areece> The mailing list feels more hostile than the IRC :-/ files over 10MB may cause memory and performance problems Web names, called URLs, have a peculiar syntax. * Need software written that will create a backup image of local disk C * Must be written in Visual C++ 2010 * I need an icon in the system tray * Why such thing happen? I love democracy. -- Chancellor Palpatine SaturdayGuard Automatically Closes Your Website During Shabbat And Holiday - and ONLY During Shabbat And Holiday. these people are strange -- aiju's sister L'Osservatore della Domenica said that there was too much contemporary literature and the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith could not keep up with it. Functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. The 'net just continues to get worse. -- Ron Minnich Access to the Internet has also exposed Haredim, who traditionally have taken their direction only from rabbis, to alternate opinions. I am far from an experienced programmer. -- Ryan Dahl (#cat-v) <martian67> that was my position, if you arnt countering it, then what are you talking about I'm having fun writing 9p clients in Go. -- rsc In 15 years Tcl has been improved a lot, like any other language. It is not hard to pray to Mothra. In rare admission, Air Force explains and downplays drone computer virus Unsetting the application apple developers are like abused wives -- martian67 if physics was like computing, we'd go back to geocentrism because it's flashier -- aiju MySQL was the first NoSQL database I've programmed Haskell before, no amount of boilerplate can scare me -- vegai lieber eine funktionierende losung als eine echte Freundin (rather a working solution than a real girlfriend) -- Sakuya, markov bot WATCH: Building healthy communities (#cat-v) <aiju> kfx: are you trying to troll me? Kindle Format 8 (incorporating HTML5 support) Yes, we could remove ape from plan 9 now, if someone cares to port the remaining ape-using programs to pure plan 9 - I'd be happy to see that. -- Howard Trickey As a longtime Mac user, I feel that Steve Jobs did many great things, and I hope they're not being too rough on him down there. -- Michael Kupperman The replacement process will be released in multiple phases. The researchers began their work after [John] Strauchs was called in by a warden to investigate an incident in which all the cell doors on one prison's death row spontaneously opened." In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire I installed Microsoft Windows 95 on my laptop which already had Plan9 9 happily running. Additional Facts: ``Open Systems'' is a command like ``Open Sesame'': it means they want you to open your wallet. -- Geoff Collyer Upas owes much of its design and success to Sendmail. If you discover that you are riding a dead horse, dismount. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted in any medium provided this notice is preserved. If you quit on school, you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country. -- President Barack Obama Faust II is a great example of the second system effect -- aiju We've revised your Wells Fargo Online Agreement Plan-9 is olded ! :( And I don't want to live between such men, as you are. Yes, asshole. -- Douglas A. Gwyn Everything you do from now on will be more fun. -- Windows 95 installer Subject: Do you think I can use Plan9 ? I can no longer sit back and allow NIX infiltration, NIX indoctrination, NIX subversion and the international NIX conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious cats. -- cinap_lenrek kfx bases a system of government on forced sodomy (#cat-v) <aiju> what good is a cure for AIDS if we can't get epistemology right? please, grow up! -- Skip Travakkolian (#cat-v) <kfx> why the fuck do germans insist on communicating in their dumb little code <aiju> we need objectivism oriented programming! <cinap_lenrek> ports are the economic engine for the elite <cinap_lenrek> occupy port 80! CTC is a Java application that is installed in two locations. (#cat-v) <aiju> i don't care whether it's crap because of the hegelian dialectics they used to construct it For many years, I've captured every keystroke I've typed -- now more than 100 million of them. -- Stephan Wolfram The full, updated list is available on Google Docs. "You don't expect to hear that someone you know killed a guy with a samurai sword," said Ardila, 19. Nice one, Google suspended my Google+ account because I created it under, well, my name, which is "Lennart Poettering" Wake up! -- Lennart Poettering How do blogs need to evolve? In a sense, if neostructuralist semioticism holds, we have to choose between the cultural paradigm of expression and subcapitalist narrative. Better ingredients, better pizza. -- John Schnatter I have a program that is approximately 2330 lines of c code. The code is in rough shape. (#cat-v) <cinap_lenrek> maybe i can get a job as deep packet inspector (#cat-v) <kfx> the workers control the means of abstraction programs are mostly bugs wrapped in some user interface -- cinap_lenrek The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer. -- Henry Kissinger In fact, Wagner found that once you get past 70 tabs Chrome really starts to struggle. Stallman saw a problem in too much customization and de-facto forking and set certain conditions for usage. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMACS A security flaw in GNU Emacs' email subsystem was exploited by Markus Hess in his 1986 hacking spree to gain superuser access to Unix computers. After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. -- William S. Burroughs And, as captainhaggy pointed out, Bell Labs is a commercial successor to the original developers of Linux. During a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul, the president urged Russia to give him additional time regarding missile defense in Europe saying, "This is my last election, and after my election, I'll have more flexibility." For me, the most dramatic example of the progress of hardware in the intervening years is Emacs. Sometimes I think that Mosaic may be the VisiCalc of the '90s. To Andreessen, who says he majored in computer science because electrical engineering was too much work, the lack of an easy-to-use graphical interface for the Web was a glaring omission. "In the beginning was the act" -- Goethe, FAUST Paoli helped create XML, cementing his reputation among developers I am willing to speak this way because after two years of discussion with plan9 people, it has become clear to me that this compiler will never be free enough for us to use. If that changes as a result of this mail, good. If not, fine -- I have given up hope. -- Theo de Raadt A grizzled NASA veteran once told me that the Apollo moon landings were communism’s greatest achievement. Now that the code is released, I'm going to change things up a bit. The first portion of the project was writing a parser to dynamically convert code written in the Processing language, to JavaScript. COMMENT = portable C compiler ONLY_FOR_ARCHS = i386 amd64 m0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format It looks like the kernel files are missing. [SuperTweet.net] Access API using Excel Some of the scenarios in this training contain real pictures that may or may not have been digitally manipulated. This is not Linux. -- rsc I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9, can my dream come true? The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an implementation was released, and this was incomplete. I'm still confusing. The malware, which is 20 megabytes when all of its modules are installed, contains multiple libraries, SQLite3 databases, various levels of encryption — some strong, some weak — and 20 plug-ins that can be swapped in and out to provide various functionality for the attackers. It even contains some code that is written in the LUA programming language — an uncommon choice for malware. Are Green Spaces an Indicator of Social and Economic Inequality? using ipad keyboard. excuse any typos. -- nemo Netvibes Mobile requires JavaScript to be enabled on your Browser. AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:player]; The most sophisticated and powerful cyberweapon uncovered to date was written in the LUA computer language, cyber security experts tell Fox News the same one used to make the incredibly popular Angry Birds game. Damn Hackers... -- Pusha T <aiju> really this wouldn't have happened if the lawnmower was nuclear powered It has been a long time coming for me to switch out of PHP for my main programming language. -- Dumping PHP For Go C - I mostly used it in school and haven't had the need to use it since. Bursting With So Much Language Support It Hurts! Unsubscribe I have recently got ahold of a program called irc (Internet Relay Chat) Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? -- Linuz Benedict Torvalds, 05/10/1991 Yesterday I gofixed some third-party packages without even reading their code and without waiting for the authors to update them. Tom Duff of Lucasfilm, Ltd. has been porting UNIX to the PERQ. HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards This is our last warning that we detected irregular activity on your Internet Banking Account. Why is there no comp.lang.go on usenet? Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects We've been acquired! (#cat-v) khm → ask pinterest these questions (#cat-v) martian67 → systemd really dosent seem _that_ horrible so far nothing's gone right today! Firefox is pretty stable, and it does everything I think I need. If that isn't progress, I don't know what is. I'm in prison, so it doesn't matter if it's not C. Can Designers And Developers Save Health Care? Add-on Memory Leak Fix b.root-servers.net should be 'Seal Target Geronimo.epub' Dan Cross is a professional guitarist and private instructor living in New York City. happiness is a warm thinkpad And good user interface is an another thing Plan 9 basically cannot into. (#cat-v) aiju → luckily i don't watch tv Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or config.mak file. 5 Simple Tools That Make Email Suck Less Please don't text while driving. Nothing is ever that important. -- Pharrell Williams When I hear about Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun. -- Stephen Hawking <cinap_lenrek> filtering the internet is like trying to vacuum the desert XML types and type derivation are syntactic shorthands for what amounts to regular expressions embedded in a recursive punctuation tree. -- Anonymous Coward Of course tablets mean freedom. Sent from a vt100 terminal. -- 20h everyone knows copycatting is wrong. this is why you teach a child to speak by hitting them with a stick. -- sl anytime a new dbus conf is installed you need to restart dbus daemon but this way running applications using dbus crash immediately proper way is to reload dbus configuration instead of restarting it -- Post in the Tiny Core Linux forum there is no feature so bad that some people won't love it. -- aiju Soon Unix had the mass of Andre the Giant, the body of the Elephant Man, and the mind of a forgotten Jack Nicholson character. The worst strain was on Unix's mind. Unable to assimilate all the conflicting patchworks of features it had ingested, its personality began to fragment into millions of distinct, incompatible operating systems. People would cautiously say "good morning Unix. And who are we today?" and it would reply "Beastie" (BSD), or "Domain", or "I'm System III, but I'll be System V tomorrow." Psychiatrists labored for years to weld together the two major poles of Unix's personality, "Beasty Boy", an inner-city youth from Berkeley, and "Belle", a southern transvestite who wanted a to be a woman. With each attempt, the two poles would mutate, like psychotic retroviruses, leaving their union a worthless blob of protoplasm requiring constant life support to remain compatible with its parent personalities. Finally, unbalanced by its own cancerous growth, Unix fell into a vat of toxic radioactive wombat urine, from which it emerged, skin white and hair green. It smelled like somebody's dead grandmother. <aiju> my DH key exchange is so secure, not even the other client knows the secret “aestheticles: n. The little-known source of aesthetic reactions. If your whole body feels like going into a fetal position or otherwise double over from the pain of experiencing something exceptionally ugly and inelegant, such as C++, it’s because your aestheticles got creamed.” -- Erik Naggum I'll often drop down to node.js if I really need to be close to the metal Running on 10 million lines of code that control over 100 computerized components, the Chevrolet Volt is the epitome of how cars are built on a smarter planet. -- Promotional text for IBM's (i)Rational platform. "ioctl is a closet full of skeletons" -- doug it's a bit counterintiutive that javascript was supposed to make the web more responsive, but ended up making it slower -- DMorsing I’ve not seen much evidence that people love other people for sensible reasons. -- Stanley Lieber hell is other people's unix. -- sartre hell is other people's code. -- aiju The Plan 9 operating system was built over the past several years by members of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J., the same group that developed UNIX, C language and C++. Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? "Nooooooooooooo" -- Albert Einstein What command you tried to execute? Powered by werc The word "voluntary," as used in Flora and in IRS publications, refers to our system of allowing taxpayers to determine the correct amount of tax and complete the appropriate returns, rather than have the government determine tax for them. Who else is using Ruby/Rails for their frontend? Oh, just Twitter, LivingSocial, Groupon, Heroku, EngingeYard, Github, Square, Zendesk, Shopify, Yammer, Braintree, Boundary, Stripe, Parse, Simple, and of course let's not forget 37signals. m( THERE IS A MISSION-CRITICAL NEED FOR CYBER-WARRIORS Berkeley sockets. By integrating sockets with the Unix operating system's file descriptors, it became almost as easy to read and write data across a network as it was to access a disk. The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. -- George Orwell Python, music, sports, gaming and philosophy. -rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 0 Aug 6 1983 true The UNIX shell gave up the Multics idea of a search path and looked for program names that weren't file names in just one place, /bin. I should mention that I only have experience with Flash, Interface Builder for iOS apps, and general web stuff. (#plan9) «chris2» ⇒ holy shit. i've been looking for a curses-based 9term for years there are ways to build these things that are performant. In 1993, Robert Nation, during his work analyzing acoustic signatures for the United States Department of Defense, began hacking twm with the intent of simultaneously reducing memory usage and adding support for virtual desktops. KENNY THOMPSON, TOMMY DUFF, MOUSE CHORDING, WHAT'S GENBUF / LUCENT SPINOFF, DENNIS RITCHIE, SOURCES OFF THE NET / CAPSO'S MISSING, READ THE WIKI, HGET FORMPOST, KEYBOARD'S STICKY / NIX IS FORKING, NO IT ISN'T, YOU READ THE WIKI YET? MACBOOKPROS, H-BOMB, HJDICKS, CAPTURE US A TRACE / TMOVE, JS LIBS AND GOLANG IS A HIT / STANLEY LIEBER, AIJU, CINAP'S GONNA YELL AT YOU / DELETE MEINKAMPF, WHERE IS ETHAN, ANGRY AT THIS MEGA-SHIT WE DIDN'T CRASH THE SOURCES / IT WAS ALWAYS ROARING / PATCHES GEOFF'S IGNORING / WE DIDN'T CRASH THE SOURCES / NO WE DIDN'T BORK IT / BUT WE TRIED TO FORK IT Tablets are pretty awesome pieces of technology. They still sort of make me feel like I'm in the future -- just another step closer to Minority Report. my inodes explode in delight -- cinap_lenrek /usr/local/plan9/bin/:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/Users/npe/src/mambo/bin:/Users/npe/src/depot_tools/:/Users/npe/nix/sys/src/osprey/MacOSX/386/bin:/Users/npe/src/hare/usr/brasil/MacOSX/386/bin:/Users/npe/src/hare/usr/inferno/appl/cmd/scripts/anl/linux/deploy/:/Users/npe/bin:/opt/local/bin:/Users/npe/.cabal/bin:/Users/npe/bin:/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/:/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/Users/npe/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/devkitpro/devkitARM/bin:/usr/local/plan9/bin/:/Users/npe/nix/usr/inferno/:/Applications/PLT Scheme v370/bin:usr/local/bin:/usr/local/plan9/bin/:/Users/npe/Inferno/MacOSX/386/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/devkitpro/devkitARM/bin:/Users/npe/acme/dock:/usr/local/git/bin/:/Users/npe/.ec2/bin:/Users/npe/go/bin:/opt/local/devkitPro/devkitARM/bin (#plan9) anth_r → well, it's weird, but i don't care enough about irc to look into it more. (#plan9) uriel → the war is over I've got news for ya sunshine, there's this thing called Linux where it's easy. Applications install with one command and all of the dependencies come on board automatically. It's just as easy as Windows and Mac. -- IGnatius T Foobar Go is the first language that truly excites me since Python. The plan is to create a common format, based on the Election Markup Language (EML) already recommended for use in Europe. Feeling safe when searching the web is important. // Factory Pattern (#cat-v) eekee → finally, a use for ubuntu: downloading 9front iso (#go-nuts) pietro10 → it looks like firefox browser history is in a SQLite database. what is the best go package for that? All the jobs I find are for C++, my father gets on my case for not using it, and now with a family I'm scared if I'll be able to support them. Languages ought to be viewed independently from editors. -- Alpheus (#cat-v) VonGuard → god damn, everything is taking so long to render in my browser today This letter may end up being a bit long, and will be contrary to the popular wisdom on 9fans. So be it. selected: javascript:showUnixContent(); Once upon a time, Thinkpad in the minds of the majority of fans simply like the existence of God, in order to calm the appearance of maintaining the status quo; feel does not belong to a desktop keyboard; Then there is the crowning touch of the little red dot I'm obsessed with, then have The psychological thrill a Thinkpad users as much as the Apple Macbook series. This discussion is exactly why we need Boyd. 12 (c) Act stupid. Vim Training Class 4 - Customizing and Extending Vim _exits("damn"); My curtain automation is very loud. -- jwz (#plan9) puddingpimp → computer terminals sit on desktops, desktops don't sit on computer terminals /* WHY THE FUCK DOESN'T THIS WORK??????? */ I don't want Javascript promises --- you can reply above this line --- MIT OpenCourseware >> Electrical Engineering and Computer Science >> Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I >> Python Tutorial (#plan9) semka → May be I should ask at #cat-v :) Monument To Steve Jobs Goes Up In St. Petersburg But without moving the directory specifics out of user space code like it was V7 and earlier, it would have been hard to create something as clean as VFS. (#cat-v) aiju → what's weird is that uriel loved gay colours rcirc on GNU Emacs 24.2.1 Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed Fix the value of TWO Fedora 18 Installer: Counterintuitive and Confusing? when all you understand is trivial bullshit, trivial bullshit is what's important hjfs: ending If it’s done right this is not wrong. -- 20h Just today I found out that the Chrome JS editor can ‘hot-swap’ your code. A programming language, even with its libraries, is not enough, nor is it always the right place to solve all the problems of the network. what am I doing wrong? Hacker News was down all last night. The problem was not due to the new server. In fact the cause was embarrassingly stupid. < sl> when something is illegal in the u.s. that just means it is more expensive Subject: [TUHS] opensolaris.org will be close soon Animals writing JavaScript He wasn't asking about plan9port. LUCENT WINS CUSTOMER FOR INFERNO < khm> I always wondered why uriel worked on web software when he disliked the web so much < aiju> khm: he lived in fucking stockholm < aiju> they named stockholm syndrome after him Mars Curiosity: Where is Linux? Is Software Security a Waste of Money? i've been googling this for the last 3 hours and haven't found anything... Now reboot twice[1]. (#cat-v) eekee → oh btw cinap_lenrek, on my x61 sound works out of the box with 9front but not slackware. :D To maintain backward compatibility, the relationships between the many options are quite complex. - ls(1) OS X Manual Page Are Lenovo's ThinkPads Getting Worse? --accessibility=[yn] allow accessibility to visually impaired New issue 130: 9pfuse: support for nonblocking i/o The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. -- Alan Kay IE11 to appear as Firefox to avoid legacy IE CSS As JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson has discovered, trying to force a brand into an Apple-shaped mold doesn't ensure success. As the F-35 is a software defined aircraft, the maintenance personnel have found that many deficiencies identified can be fixed by simply rebooting the software through an aircraft restart. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought. it's basically only the fortunes file that keeps me subscribed at this point -- sl about 9fans Why isn't it as simple as my xinitrc? Congratulations! Your first AT&T U-verse Bill is Now Available on Video [dev] [st] windows port? Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects Top Programmers Are Getting Agents--Should You? BurnZeZ → I'm constantly dealing with scrolling text The development effort for 5ESS required 5000 employees, producing 100 million lines of code, with 100 million lines of header and makefiles. Don't forget the colon when referring to keyboards or printers. A Font For Supporters Of Marriage Equality < mveety> im on facebook on my vax right now (#cat-v) aiju → fiddling with russian machines is so not worth it Subject: [9fans] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn Subject: [9fans] [gsoc] Dart9P The problem is that there aren't any decent languages where you can just sit down and write code, because you have to know so much about the language itself. China's cyber forces are said to be around 400,000 including militia, and the US has 20,000. readfile(): nonblocking read blocked (#cat-v) lf94 → this is linux no. -- Erik Quanstrom But if you'll insert it carefull, and will take it out not often, it really will campatible They look ugly and the fanbase is terrible. Rio, the Plan 9 windowing system, looks and feels like a step back to the old Amiga and Atari ST days, as the façade is nearly the same. But really, you need a CRT to be lagless. is there any real reason for hating modern thinkpads besides the keyboard and screen resolution? No. -- 20h Subject: Goddam Berkeley Stop relying on Google for everything. Stop building things on Google. No company should have such a big impact on your life and society as a whole. Several months ago I moved everything to the Microsoft ecosystem. exit And, why does ARPA use two characters when one is sufficient? (#cat-v) BurnZeZ → Either way, at this point the only reason to not use Plan 9 over anotherOS is the web, hardware support, and graphics performance (#cat-v) citanul → tl;dr best plan9 terminal is installing opera with linuxemu and using shellinabox et al Apple Mobile Devices Cleared For Use On US Military Networks The Economist explains: What is Tumblr? Dart understands that sometimes you just don’t feel like appeasing a ceremonial type checker. Anarchy is about creating communities and democratic decision making. when installing stefanha/vim with contrib/install, i get odd error messages: When Do Apps Become Rituals? E-mail is very glamorous. Way too glamorous. -- William Gibson PART (flamingnoms) #cat-v "compiling clang" (#cat-v) aecsto → Bigfoot steps out of the forest to snap my picture. While many are concerned about the reach of PRISM overseas, the Finnish Foreign Minister says he plans to continue using Outlook for email. As The Web Improves, Apple's Platforms Look Increasingly Broken (#go-nuts) cronos → damn, how many apis are there? What does German soldiers during World War II have in common with the UNIX philosophy of “worse is better”? Introducing WOW! AT&T World of Women: our newest website Bringing Israelis And Palestinians Together With Mobile Apps 18:10 < mischief> is there a way to execute plan 9 programs in linuxemu? For example, whilst he was playing to me, a favourite cat came in, upon which he immediately left his harpsichord, nor could we bring him back for a considerable time. Subject: [dev] daemon for DWM Subject: [inferno-list] Goth - Inferno in Go /* die */ Subject: [dev] lisp As always, do not blindly enter commands you do not understand into your computer. -- OpenBSD FAQ When Will Architects Speak Up for Women’s Rights? So much for capitalism being the great "driver" of the economy. For each droplet of ink the printer creates a fairly strong spike of electrical energy, and these spikes provide a signature specific to each printer model. Don't shoot me, I have no idea whether that's a good idea or not! I can remember several incidents when I did not represent Christ appropriately Perhaps after the election, the economy will pick up and we'll all have more time to devote. -- Geoff Collyer (#cat-v) BurnZeZ → Turtles all the way up There are no patents on this option. This is a form of Homomorphic Encryption that might actually scale, given the right cloud backend. “Don’t be misled by the British tendency to be soft-spoken and polite. If they need to be, they can be plenty tough. The English language didn’t spread across the oceans and over the mountains and jungles and swamps of the world because these people were panty-waists.” -- Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 PARIS -- Lockheed Martin Corp. has reassigned 200 engineers to work on the F-35 fighter jet's software, a problem area that Defense Department officials fear could cause more delays in the program. // DUMP // JOKER BINGO This distribution initially started as a set of themes and applications designed for Ubuntu I did it, now we have Hello World java program running successfully in Inferno! I am not well in English. Please email me if you need more information. Correct, except on the pi it's cmdline.txt instead of plan9.ini GitHub is down...uh...now what? As an aside, it looks like the Labs is no longer interested in accepting patches requiring more than a cursory review. Tessel runs JavaScript right on the device—no server necessary. seems that so much is up on the net, it is hard to comprehend it all. -- my dad What we learned after months of work was that we--the original target audience--just didn’t want this. Why Are We Still Plugging In Our iPhones? "Not here, not here the darkness, in this twittering world." -- T.S. Eliot We're losing perspective on 3D CSS I think that a clearer definition of the problem will help identify the most appropriate solutions. CB/UNIX was developed to address deficiencies inherent in Research Unix (#cat-v) BurnZeZ → Yeah, it's just struggling to believe people are so complacent to make arbitrary decisions without being informed Configured with: /s/ndk-toolchain/src/build/../gcc/gcc-4.8/configure --prefix=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/prefix --target=arm-linux-androideabi --host=x86_64-apple-darwin --build=x86_64-apple-darwin --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-gmp=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/temp-install --with-mpfr=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/temp-install --with-mpc=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/temp-install --with-cloog=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/temp-install --with-isl=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/temp-install --with-ppl=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/temp-install --disable-ppl-version-check --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-isl-version-check --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc -lstdc++ -lm' --disable-libssp --enable-threads --disable-nls --disable-libmudflap --disable-libgomp --disable-libstdc__-v3 --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-shared --disable-tls --disable-libitm --with-float=soft --with-fpu=vfp --with-arch=armv5te --enable-target-optspace --enable-initfini-array --disable-nls --prefix=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/prefix --with-sysroot=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/prefix/sysroot --with-binutils-version=2.23 --with-mpfr-version=3.1.1 --with-mpc-version=1.0.1 --with-gmp-version=5.0.5 --with-gcc-version=4.8 --with-gdb-version=7.3.x --with-python=/Users/User/mydroid/ndk/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin/python-config.sh --with-gxx-include-dir=/tmp/ndk-User/build/toolchain/prefix/include/c++/4.8 --with-bugurl=http://source.android.com/source/report-bugs.html --disable-bootstrap --disable-libquadmath --enable-plugins --enable-libgomp --disable-libsanitizer --enable-gold --enable-graphite=yes --with-cloog-version=0.18.0 --with-isl-version=0.11.1 --with-arch=armv5te --program-transform-name='s&^&arm-linux-androideabi-&' --enable-gold=default (#cat-v) lf94 → guys the driver wont be done by the weekend Subject: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents? We're bad at accurately assessing risk YÚN is the first member of a new line of Wi-Fi products that combines the power linux with ease of use of arduino. ICD-9-CM E843.0 (#go-nuts) radiofreejohn → it's not as if Go is being imposed on people I knew zero about social media in 2008. I now have 2 certifications in social media. I enjoy most of your user profile. I gave up, back to 9front. -- Aram Poor US Infrastructure Threatens the Cloud WIRED: Java returns to rule the web!! Do not make any links to this website without permission. A policeman's job is only easy in a police state. - Orson Welles There are a number of problems with the Internet. -- rfc1118 New York City's Website Gets A Hurricane–Proof Makeover Alfred is amazing, but I wish it had a Sublime Text-like package manager. (#cat-v) aiju → ANSI C was an inside job Moral of the SilkRoad bust: Don't ask PHP questions on Stack Overflow You guys are spending all this time with your segment tuning tinkering. I could teach a twelve-year-old to segment-tune. I want to see some real optimization, not this segment tuning nonsense. I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake. -- Bill Gates Just my two cent's. User-Agent: xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide I don't deserve this ... -- Lyndon Nerenberg fn samantha { sam -d $* } Researchers Show Apple Can Read iMessages (#cat-v) aiju → downside of cambridge: too many people think The thriving FreeBSD ecosystem contrasts sharply with the Jonestown-like atmosphere of OpenBSD. Can Bruce Schneier Be Trusted? etymology: various AFTER READ THE PAGE YOU UNDRSTAND WHAT IM TALKING TO YOU ! To oversimplify, the POSIX.1-2008 specification is simultaneously released as both The Open Group's Base Specifications Issue 7 and IEEE Std 1003.1(TM)-2008. i'm having trouble typing spaces on the r400 lately. not sure if it'sthe machine, or if my disease is making my fingersweaker Subject: make ftp(1) ignore leading whitespace in URLs cat-v.org claims that C++ was invented as a joke... Is it a joke? -- bbs.archlinux.org That's great. -- Andy Warhol My english is too bad for reading the entire documentation of 9front, so I have to ask: How can I change colors in 9front? Javascript must be enabled in order to vote Every time I am out with a woman I will eventually steer the conversation into Bitcoin territory how can i into acme without chording? I gave up for a while because I want to update things to make acme support true color. Canonical Developer Warns About Banking With Linux Mint I am virtually the only blind user of OpenBSD that I know of There are many Advocates who make incredible claims about linux. But can you trust them? I'd love to see LaTeX support BLINK though. How many others have to adopt it before it's considered portable, then? There are now more than one hundred C++ installations. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, August, 1983 It's a nice setup, and nobody uses it much. Hybridr - A hybrid dialect of Lisp inspired by Arc, Go, Plan9, nginx and Death Note ^_^ 40 * 2225 11/30 17:29 sameer.raheem@icloud.com i need cydia on me i pad help me Originally Dahl had several failed projects in C, Lua, and Haskell, but when Google's V8 engine was released, Dahl began to examine JavaScript. As a programmer, I can make my programs do whatever I please. If I want to autosave all of my documents, I can write an Emacs script to save after every hundred keypresses. Adoring admirers have fed Linux goodies to a disheartening state of obesity. -- M. Douglas McIllroy I certainly would be willing to give such port a try, if I can be convinced that it is not beyond my ability. -- lucio What an amazing year for the Web. "Impressed with his technical abilities, Snowden’s managers decided that he was the most qualified candidate to build a new web front-end for one of its projects" -- forbes.com Subject: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use? FBI SA Nicol told me that, during execution of the warrant, I should look for a Mac computer, because the network connection logs provided by Jeffrey Savoy showed a Mac address, indicating some type of Mac/Apple computer or hardware was used. Dynace includes an extensive class library. That's a video card, Blake. I stole a fair amount of code from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather than a synchronous interface, and called it X. -- Bob Scheifer Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel. -- Microsoft Support Article ID: 168702 Nobody knows what "most" C++ programmers do. -- Bjarne Stroustrup (iv) Make changes to the UNIX system only after much deliberation, and only when major gains can be made. Avoid changing the UNIX system's interfaces, and isolate any such changes as much as possible. Stay close to the Research UNIX system, in order to take advantage of continuing improvements. 9front at least has DVCS but they have one good programmer and 50 idiots who prefer to fill up the fortune file rather than fix a bug–oh, and they switched from the publically-archived Google Groups mailing list to a self-hosted non-archived mailing list, so nobody really knows what’s actually going on there. I do not want you to check my systems. -- Lt. Cmd. Data 006: SECURITY FIX: Jan 10, 2014 All architectures A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string could overflow a buffer on the stack in the X server. Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance. To enter the computers, he exploited weaknesses such as a program called GNU Emacs that allowed mail users system administrator privileges under certain conditions. Sometimes people base their whole lives on a sincerely held belief that could be wrong. -- Kazuo Ishiguro 2. if sufficient standards do not exist, DoD will develop its own standards until national or international standards become available. The BCPL to B transition also include changes made to suit Thompson's preferences (mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program). WIRED: Opinion: 10 years later, the infamous "Hacker Way" still rules at Facebook No. -- Brad Fitzpatrick The University of California, Berkeley, has been authorised by Alcatel-Lucent to release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2. // run runs the command named by cmd. building a small rpi cluster is really easy (i have one with 8-nodes) -- Skip Tavakkolian https://github.com/jfloren/plan9/commit/445b546003d071f3cf3cd6a0133b92397e5c9024 Evidenced by last few years of bug reports, nobody knows what 5g, 8g, and 6g are these days, so I deleted the "which compiler?" part of our bug report template. -- Brad Fitzpatrick (#cat-v) qrstuv → my patch to disable posting in lucio's mail client was put in the maybe directory I have "reduced"(hah) my vim config to about 50 plugins, so it takes ~25 megabytes of ram Internet Explorer 7 was audited by Microsoft to ensure that it contained no Mosaic code, and thus no longer credits Spyglass or Mosaic. I'm having a little... difficulty... understanding why you won't share your research. -- Captain Jonathan Archer /* wrong? */ Fuck them dead, the whipsawing comsec windfall bandits. -- John Young Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript. There is no read or write. Instead, there are get and put operations. -- Clive's ZX file systems and name spaces, by Francisco J. Ballesteros It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -- Ronald Reagan No. -- Aram We're seeing some really excellent proposals. -- Anthony Sorace ע����ȱ��uriel We're busy porting Java to QNX, but we're looking for alternatives as well. I notice that mothra doesn't react well to certain web pages -- Scott Schwartz, Mon, 15 Apr 1996 The Usenet of 1990 is gone and is not coming back. It should be noted that many object-oriented systems exhibit very poor locality of reference. -- comp.os.research FAQ Conventional wisdom has it that preprocessing time is a negligible part of building a C++ binary. Has the Internet been overhyped? Subject: cat-v, distribute & monetize your software I’m no compiler architecture expert, but accompiler that loads Internet Explorer seems peculiar. Can somebody please include this in the fortunes database? -- lucio Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. PART (ghi) #cat-v "thank you all for today help. The cat-v community is really friendly." Lightly tested, works. Subject: WIP: Enable readline in PHP This is coming from someone who built an OpenDocument generator in bash that's still in use at IBM today. Subject: ksh (vi mode) The need for standardization arose because enterprises using computers wanted to be able to develop programs that could be used on the computer systems of different manufacturers without reimplementing the programs. The POSIX specifications for Unix-like operating system environments originally consisted of a single document for the core programming interface, but eventually grew to 19 separate documents (for example, POSIX.1, POSIX.2 etc.) Currently, vim also loads faster than Emacs. You fall in love with one model of Mac and convince yourself what a great computer you have, and half a year later it's obsolete and uncertain to work with the niftiest apps of the future. -- Steve Wozniak In other words, rfc822 is optional. My email is screwed since I lost permission to use ETHO. While GE wanted to develop Multics to "strengthen its product line," MIT wanted Multics "to advance the state of art" of computing, and Bell Labs' purpose was to have a good environment for our people to work in." Tague was familiar with UNIX and its capabilities and tells the variety of reasons ranging from inadequate file systems, to inadequate performance, to poor user interface that he recommended the initial adoption of UNIX to start the work. with enough eyeballs all jokes are shallow People don't even know how to argue on the Internet anymore. -- Aram Additional links: Bjarne Stroustrup's opinion 14:37 -!- kfx was kicked from #suckless by __20h__ [kfx] technology doesn't solve human communiction problems. -- Erik Quanstrom i believe any successful Plan 9 distro will need to provide some transparency in the change review process. -- Skip Tavakkolian FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up its no-tolerance policy for hiring those who like to smoke marijuana. Gnu was always taken as a compliment. -- Doug McIlroy We are programmers, not lawyers. -- Aram The urine collection device also was rebuilt to eliminate leakage.[30] That's Rob Pike. I remember when he came to Bell Labs, we even shared an office for three months. -- Bjarne Stroustrup It's tricky when you're marketing a language. -- Niko Matsakis RFC 2616, which was written more than 15 years ago, was the specification everybody has implemented, and I suspect many of you occassionally have used as a reference. The biggest difference compared to the old spec, is that there is simply a lot more text. Subject: ftp(1) User-Agent It may seem counterintuitive, but skilled professionals working behind the scenes may actually be more fulfilled than the rest of us. Can you feel empathy for a UUID? after looking at plan9 whole codebase with codemap I realized the code was not that big. I wanted to do something that didn't involve arguing online about trivia. -- jwz Commands have been a big part of computing ever since the 1970's. Xiki strives to be the simplest possible way (and ways) to create interactive interfaces. From: urielc@cantv.net GCC Receives ACM's 2014 Programming Languages Software Award I've got a project going that is feasible only because the Go compiler is so fast. -- Ron Minnich In practice, nothing works. -- Brad Fitzpatrick Yes Tcl/Tk may be bloated. However, if we have Tcl/Tk on Plan9, We will also have "Grail", a web brawser written in Python. Optimization is fun because it's not necessary. -- Brad Fitzpatrick Charle why don´t reply, it´s not a normal comportament, i ask information for this manual, you reply everything but not reply, i can order from you this manual? reply please, it´s easy but you are complicated Due to the sacredness of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring and the Mount Kailash, the Bonpo as well as Hindus regard both the swastika and the number nine as auspicious and as of great significance. @WHO: There is no evidence base that #homeopathy can cure #Ebola. Having users is a key to getting contributors. -- Brad Fitzgerald Steve Yegge is working on a project to basically replace all of Elisp with JavaScript. One of the things I've been pushing is code reading. -- Douglas Crockford you guys, look for China specific brands, not just made in China. acer, htc, asus are not based in the mainland. supporting taiwanese brands does not help the Chinese cause because taiwanese corporations are often guilty of undermining mainland Chinese interests I can't answer that. -- lucio // &cipherblowfish, nokeyverify = 1; /* temporary until verification is fixed */ It is hard to believe that the summer code is so amazing. -- Yan I really wish acme were just fixed. -- Blake McBride openssl started off as a project to learn C $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen Feminism means gender should not be a source of persecution or a restriction of your choices. 10:48 < timthelion> (Note that 4 == 3 here) Subject: [Pcc] naive question : obj-c support in 'pcc'? If sponsoring a group of 3 university students to do a year-long project around Plan 9 sounds cool, read on! It's like Metcalfe's law: the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users. The same is true of languages -- you get all these people using a language and all of a sudden you've got Eclipse, you've got FindBugs, you've got Guice. -- Joshua Bloch New issue 186: 9term: no ptys in NetBSD6.4.4 14 2346 10/01 12:42 deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org Re: pf on rpi Now, finally, I have an audience to ask a question that has been bothering me for YEARS. I'm not good with programming tools. I wish I were. -- Joshua Bloch I am not the one to fix any of this, I cannot tell you how one could do it. -- Lennart Poettering its like dos, but it doesnt work Google is evil -- David Byrne I wish only to learn, master. -- young Darth Sidious John Floren extended 9p for streaming. How the Plan9 developers solve problems that are not resolved by Assembly? I assume that there is no possibility to debug this... Many considered the B-29 a failure because it couldn't survive in hostile airspace without a fighter escort. this exact error message is in the fortunes file. i am not sure really if plan9 is good for my use Ive deleted fortune now so it doesnt confuse or distract me. So I stayed at my PC for hours with a few hours sleeping before going work, for a few weeks, learned on hard ways like hell. im more sophisticated than that -- martian67 Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? I would love to be able to teach HyperTalk to my students, as a smooth on-road to more complex languages like JavaScript, Java or C++. -- Jer Throp (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Video Bus" (type: KEYBOARD, id 7) (no plan9 to hand) Those who can't solder, teach -- usnavi Ayan Qureshi is now a Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant's exam when he was just five years old. Starting a year ago, Debian/Ubuntu really jumped the shark. then I think, "what is the market for Plan9?" I've often worried about browsers, even the open source ones. Pike seemed to lack an understanding of how to entice users to go through the trouble of actually learning and acclimating to his software. A general lack of marketing savvy, perhaps. Ask HN: I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code? Warning: You could not be logged out because your session has expired. Please log in again to complete this operation. Every joke is a tiny revolution -- George Orwell I'm kind of like a designer who writes code; this may become apparent as you read on As an interface designer Plan9 have always fascinated me yet I found it incredible hard to find many other designers who were into it's concepts. Tandy Leather, which later grew in to the Tandy Corporation, was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas. I want to get into web development. The modern Plan 9 codebase is officially developed and maintained by Vita Nuova as the product named Inferno. User interface improvements included the "layers" windowing system for the DMD 5620 graphics terminal, and the SVR3.2 curses libraries that offered eight or more color pairs and other at this time important features (forms, panels, menus, etc.). if(~ $i (seek _nsec)) { # untested so far - geoff no. -- ftrvxmtrx suckless is sharing the table with libreoffice at CCC Compared to their proprietary Unix counterparts, GNU programs have also been shown to be more reliable.[32] The GNU Project recommends that contributors assign the copyright for GNU packages to the Free Software Foundation 10 1724 12/30 18:18 deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org Re: java coders are complete morons Above all, we need a state in order to have democracy, which is the system by which the many non-rich join together to overcome the power of the rich and thus deny them control over society. -- Richard Stallman Kernighan wrote a program to turn awk into C++; its state is not known.[8] A question here, have you ever tried NSA sex? Millennials are becoming old enough to program,simple as that Sending A Handwritten Letter Is Now As Easy As Using Gmail Subject: X61T - Broken/Cracked Hinges, Repair Options in Palestine..? Things are bad right now, but they're getting better. As long as the Internet remains an open and free place, society as a whole will continue to progress and grow at a faster and faster pace. i should have remembered my own patch ... -- erik Reddit stopped being genuinely cool around 2012/2013 in my opinion Urban Outfitters Sparks Outrage For Selling Holocaust-Themed Tapestry tomorrow is going to be the day everything changes Carnegie-Mellon University mistakenly sent 800 acceptances for its Master of Science in Computer Science program. I have returned to Linux because of this problem. TED, day 1: I want to believe -- WIRED magazine Can I help translate TEDx Talks if I only speak English? In a 1984 version of Unix, things started heating up, and 'true' grew to 276 bytes. The contents were now a boilerplate AT&T copyright notice claiming intellectual ownership of the otherwise still empty file. everyone move to github, so I did too I have an idea for an encryption scheme and I want to know what you guys think of it. Are the O'Reilly X books worth hanging onto? What I want to know is why he considers GCC harmful at all? Wasn't it developed by the GNU Project? Why are most webpages so shitty now? I don't ever remember the web being so shitty back around 2005ish. No. -- hiro How can I reconcile my belief that proprietary software is inherently malicious with my desire to make a living writing code? But theory turned out not to be Joy’s forte. It may be associated with neurological dysfunction, such as weakness.[5] While chaotic and inane ramblings abound, the network is quite popular. -- PHRACK Volume Two, Issue 18, Phile #9 of 11 (describing USENET) Bill Joy is one of those rare people who can carry on a rapid-fire technical conversation while coding at the keyboard. I didn’t think I had anything to say when I joined tumblr 1.5 years ago, but then I found my voice and started shouting into the wind. Avoid success at all costs. -- unofficial Haskell motto I never was a supporter of the Unix design philosophy. -- Dr Richard stallman To ensure continued delivery of these emails, please add us to your "safe list" or address book in your email program. The “better at scale” argument doesn’t really apply to what I do for a living, which is building webapps with Django. (#cat-v) khm → occasionally someone on hacker news will link to an article so they can all misunderstand it together Your current website reads more like an encyclopedia rather than a marketing platform. Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? it's a ncurses interface to youtube XKEYSCORE is a piece of Linux software that is typically deployed on Red Hat servers. As soon as I get a job I'll be either asking for my check in BTC or just convert it as it flows in. Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor /n/sources/contrib/fgb/.DS_Store A good example is something like Firefox, which fills up available RAM with page caches. Often, swapping these pages back in from disk can be slower than re-fetching from the Internet. Let them eat vinyl. -- Kurt Cobain 9vx panic: cannot connect to X display: Success Translate message into English. Of course, Harvey is the result of some of the best programmers in History. As Eric Clapton did with blues, we are trying to do with plan9/unix code. Another step beyond. -- Álvaro Jurado I agree with many thing I read on cat-v, but I can't shake this feeling they are behaving like elitists. I just forcibly added you to the group membership list. -- Andrew Gerrand We optimized search on Ello for hashtags too! For example, when you search “#art”, posts with the hashtag “#art” will appear on top. Subject: Your join request for go9p has succeeded but is pending approval. Remember: we're a bunch of mads trying to show how could be computing world. Perhaps how it should be. We walk over the work of giants. What means we must not to forget from where we come. Change all of that is needed, abandon all of that don't . Keep the ideas and general form of Plan 9. It's our way: we'll never renegade of Plan 9. We just like write some code and bring it to these times. Living with world, inside the world, but avoiding historical errors, respecting authors' ideas, working for the better way. Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange of food and a place to stay NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE Many people use that GNU's true.c as an example of bloated, but, if you actually look at the code, most of it is just comments. I already approached the OpenBSD guys, but one of them referred me to a Linux team, and the others never replied. News flash: you're wrong. commit: tapefs: remove dependency to <authsrv.h> I wouldn't say you even need to pay attention, all you need is to be informed. [harvey-commits] [PATCH] Add names to .json files that do not have them If you don't know what a file is, think of it as a place where you can store information under a name of your choice, and retrieve it later. -- TUPE I use word sometimes 12 or more hours a day and am looking to get a setup to mitigate that. Subject: Robotic Process Automation Brings New Opportunities for Skills Pivot Google's frontend servers do a lot more than terminate connections for browsers these days There is now a commercial product called WWB based on the old software, but running as plugins to MS Word. Is the original plan9 boot process broken? Is it insecure? Is it hard to port to amd64? Maybe a git branch can help here? It would help a lot in my code reviews to understand what we are trying to achieve and why, so please take the time to explain it here (or even better in the related issue or in a wiki page). (#plan9) anth_x → is there a web interface to sourcesdump? Unix has errno, an int. Plan 9 has an errstr, a string. Akaros has both. No. -- Dave Sim Now I'm heading a project that uses a RoR application to control a large series of sensors and controls in a manufacturing process. I can't read it because Google thinks I'm a robot and won't perform the search for me. Seibel: For you, what about the relation between research and actually programming? Peyton Jones: Oh, they interact a lot. Forcing the user to use the mouse is poor design, IMO. -- Byron Rakitzis Please help, I don't want to have to go back to vi... :-( I've never liked st. -- Ted Unangst It would be a cute trick to set up some sort of temporary compiler environment within Harvey so you can build programs from within Harvey (makes the testing feedback loop quicker). -- John Floren [openbsd-tech] pledge for tetris I did take a look at rewriting the CoC in Basic English and found it way too restrictive. -- Andrew Gerrand [#OpenBSD] Carefully explaining your problem is half the solution. If you get this, delete it. - Sorry! -- Tim Berners-Lee, www-talk, Mon, 28 Oct 91 14:34:12 GMT+0100 Why are you wasting my life? -- Jeff Bezos All operating systems are bullshit. -- Ted Unangst If you want to get started with autotools, try to build yourself a minimal autotools project. Once you have a working stub, you already took the biggest hurdle. -- Hacker News comment Please, excuse me the outflow. uriel, what you say would make sense if the "jokes" didn't include putting mein kampf in /lib. -- erik quanstrom ISIS Influence on Web Prompts Second Thoughts on First Amendment Whenever possible, you should use the 'cat' command line tool for this. Here's an example in Go: GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations Subject: [FD] Apple WatchOS v2.1 - Denial of Service Vulnerability Any objections to me rewriting rc in go without all known bugs? -- brucee One way that I was able to get this working was forking 9front and adding a clunk callback to Srv structure. Your Go installation is broken. -- Brad Fitzpatrick ./configure CFLAGS="-I$HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/include -I$HOME/source/harvey/ape/include -mno-red-zone -ffreestanding -fno-builtin -nostdlib -trigraphs -D_SUSV2_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_LIMITS_EXTENSION -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_BSD_EXTENSION -DHAVE_SOCK_OPTS -DHARVEY -DPlan9" LDFLAGS="-static $HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib/crt1.o $HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib/crti.o $HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib/crtn.o -L$HOME/source/harvey/ape/amd64/lib -L$HOME/source/harvey/amd64/lib" LIBS="-lbsd -lap -lc" LIBM="" --prefix=$HOME/source/harvey/ape/ports *--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-harvey *--enable-shared=no Apache is less magical than it was in the 90's. -- Brad Fitzpatrick What Can JavaScript Do? A Non-Technical Overview VMware is like being taken off of our land and moved onto a reservation. In this case, however, it will not stand. -- Terry The muscott icon of it! Why devil? I write a good bit of C code but all things being equal I would be programming in Oberon. -- Brantley Coile Kubrick is trying to tell us something…Something involving rainbows. Both gg and sjw are leftist movements. Emacs now supports webkit. We are writing to update you with some changes to the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement, which governs your participation in the Amazon Associates Program. All changes are effective on April 1, 2016. If someone tries to create more than 2500 containers with Docker they will hit this limit. *** CENTER 1127 PICNIC *** The pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio is best. To view untrusted text files, use "less -nU". Google Deactivates Web Search API Honda Civic 9front bumper Cover Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? Why Aren’t There Simple Programming Languages? You don't always get to pick the standard. 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