* netgod notes debian developers are notoriously hard to impress
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<sel> need help: my first packet to my provider gets lost :-(
-<netgod> sel: dont send the first one, start with #2
+<netgod> sel: don't send the first one, start with #2
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<james> abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to
debian-devel-changes
on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
-- Richard Stallman
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-Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response
+Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it receives a response
to a DNS query that was never made. Fix Information: Run your DNS
service on a different platform.
-- BugTraq
<dark> "Hey, I'm from this project called Debian... have you heard of it?
Your name seems to be on a bunch of our stuff."
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-"In the event of a percieved failing of the project leadership #debian is
+"In the event of a perceived failing of the project leadership #debian is
empowered to take drastic and descisive action to correct the failing,
including by not limited to expelling officials, apointing new officials
and generally abusing power"
<Flav> no, we're all irregular polygons
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<Culus> OH MY GOD NOT A RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR
-<netgod> surely you didnt think that was static? how lame would that be? :-)
+<netgod> surely you didn't think that was static? how lame would that be? :-)
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Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse for declaring a thing unseeable. You
*can* see dragons. You just have to look in the right direction.
* knghtbrd can already envision: "Subject: [INTENT TO PREPARE TO PROPOSE
FILING OF BUG REPORT] Typos in the policy document"
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-<netgod> heh thats a lost cause, like the correct pronounciation of
+<netgod> heh thats a lost cause, like the correct pronunciation of
"jewelry"
<netgod> give it up :-)
<sage> and the correct spelling of "colour" :)
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<Knghtbrd> Leave it to manoj to call procmail "puny"
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-<Crow-> Manoj: well, i cant understand stuff like "s/3#$%^% {]][ @ f245 }"
+<Crow-> Manoj: well, i can't understand stuff like "s/3#$%^% {]][ @ f245 }"
<Manoj> Crow: That is not quite legal ;-)
<Knghtbrd> Manoj - how would one make "s/3#$%^% {]][ @ f245 }" legal
anyway? (and what would it do? hehe)
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I am dyslexic of Borg. Prepare to have your ass laminated.
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-<NeonKttn> I had a friend stick me in her closet during highschool beacuse I
+<NeonKttn> I had a friend stick me in her closet during highschool because I
wouldn't believe that her boyfriend knew about foreplay...
<NeonKttn> I shoulda brought popcorn. :)
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* wichert_ imagines master without a MTA
<james> wichert: ehm? that might hinder peformance of the BTS :p
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-<gecko> Hmm... I wonder what else seperates Debian from the rest of the
+<gecko> Hmm... I wonder what else separates Debian from the rest of the
Linux distributions.
<Knghtbrd> gecko - We Don't Suck
<gecko> Knghtbrd: you don't say that when addressing a bunch of people
<Knghtbrd> wc - hush.
<Knghtbrd> =>
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-<dpg> americans are wierd....
+<dpg> americans are weird....
<xtifr> californians even weirder
<Knghtbrd> xtifr has a point ...
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* netgod opens his mailbox and immediately wishes he hadnt
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-<frogbert> its hard being a lesbian withoutn breasts...people dont take
+<frogbert> its hard being a lesbian without breasts...people don't take
you seriously
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Perhaps Debian is concerned more about technical excellence rather than
* HomeySan waits for the papa john's pizza to show up
<ravenos> mm. papa john's.
<HomeySan> hopefully they send the cute delivery driver
-<ravenos> they dont have that here.
+<ravenos> they don't have that here.
<Dr_Stein> why? you gonna eat the driver instead?
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<netgod> is it me, or is Knghtbrd snoring?
* joeyh wonders why everyone wants to know how tall he is
<james> joeyh: it helps the sniper
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-* BenC wonders why he has upgraded to 3.3.5-1 before teh X maintainer
+* BenC wonders why he has upgraded to 3.3.5-1 before the X maintainer
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<Delenn> I wouldn't make it through 24 hours before I'd be firing up the
grill and slapping a few friends on the barbie.
modularity and madness (ie, libtool)
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<raptor> Adamel, i think the code you fixed of mine didn't work
-<raptor> i must not have commited the working code
+<raptor> i must not have committed the working code
<Knghtbrd> raptor: like it's the first time THAT has ever happened =p
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<Mercury> Knghtbrd: Using -3dfx or -svga?
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<devkev> yeah i saw the lightning gun and where you were going, thinking
you were gonna kick some ass :)
-<devkev> didnt realise it would be your own :)
+<devkev> didn't realise it would be your own :)
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"Otherwise, please speak to a doctor about removing your head from your
ass, I believe it would be beneficial to all involved."
<Deek> rebelpacket: If you want to accelerate it, throw it harder.
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<netgod> you know
-<netgod> its really sad when the internic itself cant configure DNS
+<netgod> its really sad when the internic itself can't configure DNS
servers right
-<netgod> it just doesnt get any more pathetic than that
+<netgod> it just doesn't get any more pathetic than that
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<Knghtbrd> Even with overbrights, Quake's color palette is full of dull,
flat colors
* joeyh runs dselect
<Overfiend> that ought to be sufficient :)
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-<barneyfu> knghtbrd: crap, SDL sure makes DGA a helluva alot easier too
+<barneyfu> knghtbrd: crap, SDL sure makes DGA a hell of a lot easier too
doesn't it? :)
<knghtbrd> barneyfu: what DGA?
<barneyfu> mouse dga
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<miguel> `You have been unsubscribed from the high energy personal
protection devices mailing list'
-<miguel> I dont remember getting into the mailing list
+<miguel> I don't remember getting into the mailing list
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<Myth> I'm getting a connection refused when connecting to port 25, anyone
know where the damn log is?
Unix is mature OS, windows is still in diapers and they smell badly.
-- Rafael Skodlar <raffi@linwin.com>
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-<Midgar> From all the sterotypes about Aussies, I figure you guys are
+<Midgar> From all the stereotypes about Aussies, I figure you guys are
really tough.
<Midgar> ;p
<krusto> we'll throw koala's at you
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<hop_> i had something that i think was chicken that was coated with a red
paste that seemed to be composed of lye based on how much of my
- tounge it burned away.
+ tongue it burned away.
<hop_> our friend who is Indian said this is why most Indians are thin
and i quote "It doesn't take very much of this food to get you
satisfied enoguh to stop eating."
Humor in the Court:
Q. Mrs. Smith, do you believe that you are emotionally unstable?
A. I should be.
-Q. How many times have you comitted suicide?
+Q. How many times have you committed suicide?
A. Four times.
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Humor in the Court:
A. Because he was argumentary and he couldn't pronunciate his words.
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Humor in the Court:
-Q. Were you aquainted with the deceased?
+Q. Were you acquainted with the deceased?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Before or after he died?
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A method of solution is perfect if we can forsee from the start,
and even prove, that following that method we shall attain our aim.
- -- Leibnitz
+ -- Leibniz
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A pain in the ass of major dimensions.
-- C.A. Desoer, on the solution of non-linear circuits
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A sense of desolation and uncertainty, of futility, of the baselessness
of aspirations, of the vanity of endeavor, and a thirst for a life giving
-water which seems suddenly to have failed, are the signs in conciousness
+water which seems suddenly to have failed, are the signs in consciousness
of this necessary reorganization of our lives.
It is difficult to believe that this state of mind can be produced by the
of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies,
but they prevailed with irrefutable data. More often, egregious findings
that contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts. I have
-argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic conciousness,"
+argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic consciousness,"
and the like, would entail fundamental revisions of the foundations of
neuroscience. Before abandoning materialist theories of mind that have paid
handsome dividends, we should insist on better evidence for psi phenomena
than presently exists, especially when neurology and psychology themselves
offer more plausible alternatives.
- -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Conciousness:
+ -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Consciousness:
Implications for Psi Phenomena".
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Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.
What to do...
if a starship, equipped with an FTL hyperdrive lands in your backyard?
First of all, do not run after your camera. You will not have any
- film, and, given the state of computer animation, noone will believe
+ film, and, given the state of computer animation, no one will believe
you anyway. Be polite. Remember, if they have an FTL hyperdrive,
they can probably vaporize you, should they find you to be rude.
Direct them to the White House lawn, which is where they probably
The following morning saw only rubble where there once was a huge
structure reaching to the heavens. One by one, the Mathematicians climbed
out from under the rubble. It was a miracle that nobody was killed; but when
-they began to speak to one another, SUPRISE of all suprises! they could not
+they began to speak to one another, SURPRISE of all surprises! they could not
understand each other. They all spoke different languages. They all fought
amongst themselves and each went about their own way. To this day the
Topologists remain the original Mathematicians.
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There was a mad scientist (a mad... social... scientist) who kidnapped
three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked
-each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no
+each of them in separate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no
can opener.
A month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer's
cell and found it long empty. The engineer had constructed a can opener from
off the tin cans by throwing them against the wall. She was developing a good
pitching arm and a new quantum theory.
The mathematician had stacked the unopened cans into a surprising
-solution to the kissing problem; his dessicated corpse was propped calmly
+solution to the kissing problem; his desiccated corpse was propped calmly
against a wall, and this was inscribed on the floor:
Theorem: If I can't open these cans, I'll die.
Proof: assume the opposite...
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Come fill the cup and in the fire of spring
-Your winter garment of repentence fling.
+Your winter garment of repentance fling.
The bird of time has but a little way
To flutter -- and the bird is on the wing.
-- Omar Khayyam
-- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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I know if you been talkin' you done said
-just how suprised you wuz by the living dead.
-You wuz suprised that they could understand you words
+just how surprised you wuz by the living dead.
+You wuz surprised that they could understand you words
and never respond once to all the truth they heard.
But don't you get square!
There ain't no rule that says they got to care.
I will fear no prof, for my calculator is there to hearten me.
It prepareth a log table to comfort me, it prepareth an
arc sin for me in the presence of my teachers.
-It annoints my homework with correct solutions, my interpolations are
+It anoints my homework with correct solutions, my interpolations are
over.
Surely, both precision and accuracy shall follow me all the days of my
life, and I shall dwell in the house of Texas instruments forever.
Turning back the pages to the times I love best,
I wonder if she'll ever do the same,
Now the thing that I call livin' is just bein' satisfied,
-With knowing I got noone left to blame.
+With knowing I got no one left to blame.
Carefree Highway, I got to see you, my old flame...
Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep,
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Now I'm concentrating on a specific tank battle toward the end of World War II!
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-Now I'm having INSIPID THOUGHTS about the beatiful, round wives of
+Now I'm having INSIPID THOUGHTS about the beautiful, round wives of
HOLLYWOOD MOVIE MOGULS encased in PLEXIGLASS CARS and being approached
by SMALL BOYS selling FRUIT ...
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This fortune also supports the BSD method of appending ``-o'' to
database names to specify offensive fortunes. However this is
.B not
-how fortune stores them: offensive fortunes are stored in a seperate
+how fortune stores them: offensive fortunes are stored in a separate
directory without the ``-o'' infix. A plain name (i.e., not a path to a
file or directory) that ends in ``-o'' will be assumed to be an
offensive database, and will have its suffix stripped off and be
* + Percent selection of files with -a now works on datafiles which
* appear in both unoffensive and offensive directories (see man page
* for details)
- * + The -s and -l options are now more consistant in their
+ * + The -s and -l options are now more consistent in their
* interpretation of fortune length
* + The -s and -l options can now be combined wit the -m option
*/
.Ed
.Pp
All fields are written in network byte order. Each field is also
-written independantly so as to avoid structure padding problems on
+written independently so as to avoid structure padding problems on
some architectures.
.Pp
The purpose of
#endif /* MAXPATHLEN */
/*
- * This program takes a file composed of strings seperated by
+ * This program takes a file composed of strings separated by
* lines containing only the delimiting character (the default
* character is '%') and creates another file which consists of a table
* describing the file (structure from "strfile.h"), a table of seek
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