commit e5c98464c8f80410bda1667cb747317b3e728322 from: rsc date: Thu Feb 23 00:40:22 2006 UTC update from plan9 commit - 95409400f71c426d4ef5811f5dbdf1c0778464f5 commit + e5c98464c8f80410bda1667cb747317b3e728322 blob - cd20bcf6c298a8a8bd9c1a3f48cbadd2e58cc71b blob + bf0d609584cbb563cfaf4e52416b40329f99a1ca --- lib/fortunes +++ lib/fortunes @@ -3159,7 +3159,6 @@ 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. -Choose your spouse carefully. -- Susan Dorward 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. @@ -4058,3 +4057,54 @@ It's almost as though someone is creating billboards t And, as you read, please forgive the necessary typos - I'm going for rock-solid facts, rather than spelling. mp3riot - Directory search utility val.h:152: class `FloatVal' is implicitly friends with itself +The MOV mnemonic, which stands for `move', is a misnomer. A copy function is actually performed instead of a move. - AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 1 +It's not foolproof, but maybe if we don't act like fools, it will work. - Sara O'Brien +May God forgive you for what you have done! - Pope John Paul I, to the Cardinals who elected him + hb = 0x80; hb = hb << 24; /* hb = 0x80000000UL */ +setenv I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS +It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. +CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 150.0% system, 0.0%nice, 0.0% idle +i know what jmk did. he added reentrancy for threads. - boyd, about uintptr +i hate all sorts of zealots - boyd +/* Watch the brackets - even Ken and Dennis get some language design wrong */ +Not related to the portable reciprocating power saw trademark of the Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation. +GNU C++ does not support old-style function definitions, so this extension is irrelevant. +Here we have twenty-eight letters. +Here we have twenty-six letters. +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. Java is history repeated as farce. - Scott McKay +Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. - Hal Abelson, MIT AI Lab job ad +I recently visited plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9 and I would like to offer my web design services. I can help you with your Plan 9 website. - spam +There are no network problems with scone, hale and poptart. IT support is working these issues and we will notify you when the problem is resolved. +A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." + exhausted("sleep"); +/// The ForTo class avoids confusing syntax of "for (int i=1;i<=4;i++) {...}". This can be replaced with "foreach (int i in new ForTo(1,4)) {...}". +Linux is for people who hate Windows. BSD is for people who love UNIX. +If plan9 was a village then I'd probably be the village idiot, but it would still be better than living in the city. - Dave Lukes +Software has gotten too fat and unreliable, so we started with Linux. - Nicholas Negroponte +Forgive my ignorance, I am a layman and nowadays get my schooling through search engine results. - Vester Thacker +By tradition, the return value of functions report what they did, not what they considered doing. - rob +If the restaurant serves poor beer, don't switch to wine. - sape +There is nothing quite like looking up and seeing YOUR star. Order now for FREE SHIPPING. +gcc is the holy cow of compilers, not the holy grail. - forsyth +NOTE 3: Each bit has the value either ZERO or ONE. - ECMA-035 spec +cpu90112: exiting +cpu0: existing +The operation timed out while trying to contact void. +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. Read only 23