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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 268755 16-Jul-2014 gavin

Merge r268295 from head:
Fix equation and limerick to be correct. NetBSD fixed this 14 years ago
(src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 1.7).

PR: 188714
Submitted by: ksmakoto dd.iij4u.or.jp


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 243899 05-Dec-2012 eadler

Use Bernard Baruch's full name.

The words "old than" seem to be quoted as "older than" by some sources,
so use the more likely and grammatically correct text.

PR: docs/173868
Submitted by: Chris Petrik <c.petrik.sosa@gmail.com>
Approved by: cperciva
MFC after: 1 week


# 243048 15-Nov-2012 jmg

fix a couple of spelling errors...


# 238879 28-Jul-2012 dougb

Add a couple of nice quotes from Edward Everett Hale


# 228938 28-Dec-2011 dougb

1. Correct capitalization of the nobility particle for
Francois de La Rochefoucauld introduced in r228909 [1],[2]

2. Change c-cedilla introduced in the same commit to ASCII c since
non-UTF-8 terminals will choke on the non-ASCII text. [2],[3]

Pointed out by: bf [1]
Reviewed by: French-speakers on #bsdcode [2]
Requested by: uqs [3]


# 228934 28-Dec-2011 uqs

Prefer ASCII apostrophes over Unicode ones like the rest of the file.


# 228909 27-Dec-2011 dougb

1. Remove a bunch of duplicates. Usually this means removing them from
fortunes, but occasionally remove them from the other 2 files when
they are not offensive, or not murphy'ish enough.

Where the version in fortunes had better attribution and/or formatting,
copy it over.

2. Fix a few typos

3. Use the full name of François De La Rochefoucauld, fix one of his
quotes, and remove the duplicate of it.


# 226898 29-Oct-2011 dougb

Fix the text and attribution of the poem "Youth" by Samuel Ullman.

Our copy was a bastardization of the "older" (probably original?) and
shorter version of the poem; and the "newer" version that is better
known, and arguably more popular. Standardize on the latter.

Cf. http://www.bartleby.com/73/2099.html


# 222890 09-Jun-2011 dougb

Minor typo, fix 2 attributions


# 221908 14-May-2011 uqs

fortune(6): fix typos and misspellings.

While here, drop words in the spelling files that are no longer used
anywhere.

Speling errors found via: codespell from Lucas De Marchi


# 218650 13-Feb-2011 brucec

Move potentially offensive fortune to fortunes-o.

PR: bin/137702
MFC after: 3 days


# 213287 29-Sep-2010 cperciva

Add advice to new fathers from Thomas Ptacek.

Suggested by: wilko
Approved by: Thomas Ptacek
Security: New parents often feel very insecure.


# 212168 03-Sep-2010 jmg

fix the move so that it matches what the rest of the internet
says about this game... This move also makes more sense...

MFC after: 1 week


# 210662 30-Jul-2010 uqs

Fix indention of attribution line for some recent additions.

MFC after: 3 days


# 210484 25-Jul-2010 dougb

Correct a Cecil Beaton quote

PR: docs/148916
Submitted by: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>


# 205995 31-Mar-2010 uqs

Sync fortunes with other *BSDs

- Spelling errors
- Typographical fixes
- Consistent attributions
- Use Jr. more consistently
- Capitalization of dictionary-like entries
- Sorting using tools/do_sort
- Remove duplicate fortunes
- Style according to the Notes file
- Reflect correct default fortune name in Notes
- Remove some no longer needed spelling hints
- Drop latin1 characters (sorry Mårten)

This is a partial sync against the DragonflyBSD sources, where a lot of
fixes from Free, Net and OpenBSD were merged previously. Only about 50%
of the changes originate from there, the rest was done by dougb and
yours truly.

Partial review by: wilko (earlier version), ed (dito)
In collaboration with: dougb
Approved by: ed (co-mentor)


# 204360 26-Feb-2010 wilko

s/all ready/already/

Submitted by: ru@, gj@


# 204314 25-Feb-2010 wilko

On the (non)sense of legal disclaimers in emails.


# 203703 09-Feb-2010 gnn

Add the definition of Mistakeholder


# 201626 05-Jan-2010 stas

- Move potentially offensive quotes I committed recently to fortunes-o.
- Reference date.
- Be more clear on context.

Suggested by: dougb


# 201601 05-Jan-2010 dougb

Remove more duplicates

Minor reformatting on a few


# 201477 04-Jan-2010 stas

- Add two particulary interesting quotes from the past decade.


# 199025 07-Nov-2009 dougb

Properly sort a math fortune after the changes in r193486

Properly sort fortunes added in r174879 and r174959


# 199023 07-Nov-2009 dougb

Move Warner's very funny comparison of VCS to anal sex into fortunes-o


# 198921 04-Nov-2009 dougb

Fix not only the grammar, but also the formatting that makes the gag


# 197797 06-Oct-2009 dougb

"Potluck Pogo" was a collection of Walt Kelly's "Pogo" cartoons
first published in 1955. "Putluck Pogo" seems to be a typo.


# 195726 16-Jul-2009 dougb

Fix several instances of spaces before commas, and one of a space
before a ).

PR: docs/136723
Submitted by: Ulrich Sporlein <uqs@spoerlein.net>
Approved by: re (kib)


# 193486 05-Jun-2009 edwin

Misc fixed to fortunes

PR: conf/112024
Submitted by: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>
MFC after: 2 days


# 193467 04-Jun-2009 edwin

[patch] fortune(6): George Bernard Shaw quote fix

From the original PR:

s/milestones/millstones/
and less important..
s/man/Man/
Not every source I've seen capitalizes 'Man', but it seems
right. Uncapitalized 'man' would usually be preceded by
an 'a'. But I haven't seen any reference cite the orignal
source yet, so I can't say for sure.

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31568/

PR: conf/131469
Submitted by: John Hein <jhein@timing.com>
MFC after: 2 days


# 189448 06-Mar-2009 phk

Too good to pass.


# 183707 08-Oct-2008 phk

Another good day for historical quotes, Oliver Wendell Holmes brought to
you by Thomas L. Friedman.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html?ref=opinion)


# 183691 08-Oct-2008 phk

A Wittgenstein quote according to David Ignatius
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/the_town_hall_debate_in_praise.html


# 181207 02-Aug-2008 phk

Add a quote too good to miss from:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/08/schneier_misquo.html

(and reorder one I appearantly didn't get in the right place last time.)


# 180694 22-Jul-2008 maxim

o Alan Shepard was first American in the space; fix attribution.
o Correct Alan's surname.

PR: bin/125812
Submitted by: Derek Taylor [1], gavin [2]
MFC after: 1 week


# 180512 14-Jul-2008 phk

Unmangle an E.W.Dijkstra quote.


# 180341 07-Jul-2008 phk

Apply learning from RAIEC (Redundant Array of Independeng English Courses)
kindly provided by four different correspondents since my last commit.


# 180286 05-Jul-2008 phk

Two quotes too good to miss.


# 179987 25-Jun-2008 wollman

Months in English are capitalized (even when abbreviated).


# 179960 23-Jun-2008 phk

+Computers can't cruise. Meandering is a foreign concept to them.
+The computer assumes that all behavior is in pursuit of an ultimate
+goal. Whenever a motorist changes his or her mind and veers off
+course, the GPS lady issues that snippy announcement: "Recalculating!"
+ -- Joel Achenbach (www.slate.com, 20 jun 2008)


# 178662 29-Apr-2008 phk

This bloke has his priorities straight:

+"Can you be more stupid than aggravating the judge AND your lawyer?
+No? Oh yes you can: You can aggravate the whole kernel community."
+ -- Alexander Lyamin (about Hans Reisers murder trial)

Found at: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9925607-7.html?tag=nefd.top


# 178605 26-Apr-2008 yar

Add a missing quote symbol.


# 178604 26-Apr-2008 yar

Just met Kurt Vonnegut's quote remarkably relevant
to open software development (as well as to the other
kinds of human activity.)


# 177879 03-Apr-2008 yar

Put back the quote from Chinggis Khan removed in rev. 1.259.
The quote predated rev. 1.232, which rev. 1.259 was to correct;
therefore it was protected by the "Don't remove fortunes" rule.

Noticed by: ceri
Pointy hat to: yar


# 177781 31-Mar-2008 ganbold

Improve some quotes of Chinggis Khan.
Remove militant and moralized quotes of Chinggis Khan.
Add one more quote of Chinggis Khan.

Reviewed by: yar
Approved by: keramida(mentor)


# 176764 03-Mar-2008 dds

Fix typo.


# 176639 28-Feb-2008 yar

Add another very relevant quote from "The Elements of Programming Style"
by Kernighan and Plauger.


# 176638 28-Feb-2008 yar

It was Plauger, not Ritchie, who co-authored both editions
of "The Elements of Programming Style". Also spell the name
of the book properly.


# 175213 10-Jan-2008 des

A real gem from freebsd-current@


# 174959 28-Dec-2007 wilko

Aussie New Years wish


# 174897 25-Dec-2007 schweikh

Typos corrected.


# 174879 23-Dec-2007 wilko

On Christmas lights.


# 174823 20-Dec-2007 julian

Warner lets a good one out..


# 174581 13-Dec-2007 wes

Add my all-time favorite quote, from one of my all-time favorite people.


# 174471 08-Dec-2007 dougb

A few more cleanups.


# 174425 07-Dec-2007 dougb

Sort these files using: sh ../tools/do_sort < $file > $file.sorted

This greatly aids in detecting duplicates, among other things.


# 174422 07-Dec-2007 dougb

This is a massive cleanup of the fortune files, including removal
of many duplicates, formatting/whitespace fixes, spelling fixes,
and a host of others. Note: No fortunes were intentionally removed
(other than duplicates) as part of this cleanup. In removing dupes
I tried to be generous in not removing similarly worded fortunes
that had even slightly different punch lines.

Duplicates were resolved as follows (in this order):
* + limerick -> limerick
* + fortunes-o.real -> fortunes-o.real
* + fortunes2-o -> fortunes2-o
* + zippy -> zippy
murphy + fortunes -> fortunes

In correcting spelling I've tried to leave colloquial variations
(especially British'isms) intact, as well as to not "correct"
errors that are part of the joke.

In fortunes and fortunes2-o I combined a couple of fortunes that
were adjacent to each other that seemed like they should have
originally been combined, and split a couple that seemed like they
should have originally been split.

Miscellaneous:
1. Fixed underlining
2. Capitalized proper names
3. Removed quotation marks from "freestanding" quotes for consistency
4. Added quotation marks to QOTD fortunes that needed them
5. Corrected or added many attributions
6. Removed apostrophes from trailing 's' that are plural, not possessive
7. Updated the path to fortune stuff included in some of the jokes
8. Updated several fortunes to their original version, and added attribution
9. Split up compound words that ispell tripped over


# 173397 06-Nov-2007 edwin

Another typo in the previous commited fix. That makes four typos
in one fortune of only 32 words. Based on that single ratio, there
are 50453 more typos in the rest of the fortunes file....

Noticed by: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
MFC after: 1 week


# 173395 06-Nov-2007 edwin

[patch] Fortune typos, around line 57346 of fortunes datfile

Small typos -- saw in a fortune today that 'equipped' is
spelled 'equpped'. Also, 'vacuum' is spelled 'vaccuum'.
Corrected diff provided below.

PR: misc/112049
Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@speakeasy.net>
MFC after: 1 week


# 173091 28-Oct-2007 dougb

Correct, add or improve attributions for, and add to quotations from
"The Wizard of Oz"

One duplicate was also removed that wasn't the right quote anyway


# 172849 21-Oct-2007 dougb

Fix a couple of small typos, and remove a duplicate


# 172847 21-Oct-2007 dougb

Change to the original version of the poem titled "The Guy in the Glass,"
and add the proper attribution. Also add an explanation for the Middle
English word used in the first line.


# 170602 12-Jun-2007 philip

Remove duplicate. Was that a bug? :-)


# 170370 06-Jun-2007 ceri

Correct typo.


# 170167 31-May-2007 dougb

Correct two small typos


# 168039 30-Mar-2007 kris

Line wrap previous entry

Submitted by: des


# 168018 29-Mar-2007 kris

A note from Peter Wemm about how to tell the difference between amd64 and
ia64.


# 167898 26-Mar-2007 gabor

- Fix typo

PR: bin/110648
Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@speakeasy.net>
Approved by: keramida (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days


# 165938 11-Jan-2007 philip

Add Wise Words from Colin on irregular verbs and code quality. :-)

Submitted by: cperciva


# 165843 06-Jan-2007 dougb

More minor cleanups:

1. Fix small typo "retorted ." -> "retorted."
2. Remove from fortunes a story that is duplicated in fortunes2-o
3. Remove from fortunes and fortunes2-o Zippy the Pinhead quotes
that are already in the zippy file.
4. ... therefore remove zippy from fortunes.sp.ok
5. Remove a duplicate in the zippy file.


# 165663 30-Dec-2006 dougb

Add the fortunes from the PR that were not already present.
Delete some duplicates found while double checking the new ones,
and fix a typo.

These haven't been sorted yet, but will be in a future commit.

PR: ports/40273
Submitted by: Achim Patzner <ap@proxon.bnc.net>


# 165137 12-Dec-2006 grog

Wisdom of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan.

Submitted by: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>


# 164850 03-Dec-2006 maxim

o Fix typo: manger -> manager.

PR: misc/106253
Submitted by: Niclas Zeising
MFC after: 1 week


# 163781 30-Oct-2006 keramida

Squash a typo.

Submitted by: Miltiadis Margaronis <mmargaron@gmail.com>


# 163631 23-Oct-2006 phk

It so happens that everything that is stupid is not unconstitutional.
-- Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia


# 163543 20-Oct-2006 phk

Voltaire again.


# 163067 07-Oct-2006 phk

Add a delightful typographic gem I discovered on page 143 in Edward
Tuftes book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

The constant width font does not quite do the typeset original justice,
but it is is good enough for a fortune.


# 162386 17-Sep-2006 phk

Too many good quotes flying by these days.


# 161671 27-Aug-2006 wilko

visionary thoughts..

MFC after: 1 week


# 160964 04-Aug-2006 yar

Commit the results of the typo hunt by Darren Pilgrim.
This change affects documentation and comments only,
no real code involved.

PR: misc/101245
Submitted by: Darren Pilgrim <darren pilgrim bitfreak org>
Tested by: md5(1)
MFC after: 1 week


# 160240 10-Jul-2006 phk

And now without typo.


# 160239 10-Jul-2006 phk

Add a good quote that gets used a lot in the debate about global
warming right now:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclir


# 159788 20-Jun-2006 phk

+To create quality software, the ability to say no is usually far
+more important than the ability to say yes.
+ -- Michi Henning
+%


# 159559 12-Jun-2006 grog

Burying UNIX--a quote by Rob Pike,

Seen on The UNIX Heritage Society mailing list.


# 159550 12-Jun-2006 philip

Add two little nuggets of wisdom I picked up at work today:

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with
an idea. -- The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook

and

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and
bragged about forever. -- Button at the Boston Computer Museum

I wonder why people call me a cynic. ;-)


# 159540 12-Jun-2006 wilko

Who am I to correct the native speakers... anyway, s/council/counsel/

Noted by: des


# 159539 12-Jun-2006 wilko

Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason
given proper legal council.

- Alfred Perlstein


# 158999 28-May-2006 dds

Layers are for cakes, not for software.
-- Bart Smaalders

From Performance Anti-patterns. ACM Queue 4(1):44-50. February 2006.
(Author confirmed via email that the quote is his own).


# 158912 25-May-2006 phk

In our system there's no intermediate step between a definitive Supreme
Court decision and violent revolution.
-- Al Gore (New York Magazine, May 29 2006)


# 158689 17-May-2006 phk

To save you all the trouble with CVSWEB:

Peter Fellgett's wildcard recipe:
Into a clean dish, place the dry ingredients and add the
liquids until the right consistency is obtained. Turn out
into suitable containers and cook until done.


# 158375 09-May-2006 wilko

Go figure this error...

Submitted by: Thomas Beha


# 157995 24-Apr-2006 dds

Add attribution: the quote comes from Perlis's Paradigms of AI Programming
p. 348. See http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html


# 157810 17-Apr-2006 schweikh

Remove a corrupted fortune ending in line noise. Even googling did not
turn up a non-corrupted version, else I would have restored it.
(No, it's not the one that uses line noise intentionally.)


# 157780 15-Apr-2006 maxim

o s/you health/your health/.

PR: conf/95810
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson


# 155851 19-Feb-2006 wilko

Her name was Anne Frank, not Ann Frank.

MFC after: 1 month


# 155749 16-Feb-2006 grog

Wisdom about the Open Source ecosystem.

Submitted by: Mårten Mickos


# 155147 31-Jan-2006 grog

Clarify time frame of jkh quote.


# 155146 31-Jan-2006 grog

Add wisdom from jkh.


# 154950 28-Jan-2006 dds

Never do programs contain so few bugs as when no debugging tools
are available.
-- Niklaus Wirth

Pointed by: Panagiotis Louridas


# 154926 27-Jan-2006 cperciva

Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by
system calls.


# 154636 21-Jan-2006 matteo

Remove some duplicated entries

PR: conf/81924
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Approved by: philip (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days


# 153724 25-Dec-2005 wilko

We will not be responsible for damage to equipment, your ego, county wide
power outages, spontaneously generated mini (or larger) black holes,
planetary disruptions, or personal injury or worse that may result from the
use of this material.
-- taken from Samuel M. Goldwasser's
Sam's Strobe FAQ Notes on the Troubleshooting
and Repair of Electronic Flash Units and Strobe Lights


# 153705 24-Dec-2005 wilko

"A life lived in fear is a life half lived"


# 153341 12-Dec-2005 dds

Add missing John Gilmore quote.


# 153104 05-Dec-2005 dougb

Canonify, correct, and add citations related to Douglas Adams' work.
Correct a quotation from Hitchhiker's.


# 152981 01-Dec-2005 wes

Add another 'best quote about XML evar!' courtesy Pav Lucistnik (pav@)


# 152710 23-Nov-2005 wilko

correct typo


# 152665 21-Nov-2005 wilko

add witty remark about serious thought.

MFC after: 2 days


# 151462 19-Oct-2005 phk

Fix typo


# 151454 18-Oct-2005 phk

Bruce Schneier is underrepresented in the fortune file.


# 151414 17-Oct-2005 philip

Add a valuable piece of Usenet advice about storing passwords. :-)

Obtained from: jpd on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc


# 150485 23-Sep-2005 krion

Whitespaces cleanup.

PR: conf/81926
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury dot york dot ac dot uk>


# 150428 21-Sep-2005 dougb

Remove a fortune that is duplicated verbatim in fortunes2-o


# 149934 10-Sep-2005 schweikh

Remove a duplicate and fix a typo.


# 149815 06-Sep-2005 wilko

Notable quote by Theodore Roosevelt.

MFC after: 3 days


# 149429 24-Aug-2005 wilko

About life


# 149362 22-Aug-2005 grog

Add relationship between offence and beer.

Submitted by: philip


# 149290 19-Aug-2005 wilko

-- storage engineer on the virtues of FC-AL


# 149289 19-Aug-2005 murray

Move the "yiddish cooking has killed more jews than Hitler" quote back
to the offensive file.

The other Hitler quotes/references stay in the unoffensive file, as
they offer more historical perspective than this one.

Approved by: core


# 149100 15-Aug-2005 wilko

wisdom about 'beachhead'


# 149044 14-Aug-2005 wes

Add the best quote evar! about XML.


# 148939 10-Aug-2005 schweikh

Be a nice community member and honor the request for backout after
stirring the hornet's nest. This issue will be resolved by core.


# 148869 08-Aug-2005 schweikh

Move the Hitler quotes and some references to him to the "offensive" file.
I did not bother to sort them all. If you have a script, feel free.


# 148862 08-Aug-2005 schweikh

While I find the Hitler quotes extremely questionable, I'm enough
of a pedant to properly spell the monster's first name.


# 147241 10-Jun-2005 phk

Snoopy in quality of life.


# 147053 06-Jun-2005 wilko

When operating the diopter adjustment knob with your eye to the view-
finder, be careful not to put your fingers or fingernails in your eye.
-- found in the users manual of the Nikon D2x camera,
a camera for professional photographers
%


# 146781 29-May-2005 phk

Hand it to spaff, he knows how to say it:

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging
an armoured car to deliver credit card information from someone
living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
-- Gene Spafford, Purdue University.


# 146185 13-May-2005 phk

Remove duplicate and attribute Weinbergs second law to the right weinberg.


# 144995 13-Apr-2005 phk

Data is not information;
Information is not knowledge;
Knowledge is not wisdom
-- Gary Flake


# 144862 10-Apr-2005 schweikh

s/self-distruction/self-destruction


# 143956 22-Mar-2005 phk

He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light
without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson on patents on ideas.


# 143608 14-Mar-2005 philip

These words, while not spoken about anything even slightly related, are very,
very applicable when waiting for world to compile *grin*

Impatience award to: philip


# 143519 13-Mar-2005 brueffer

Remove dublicate entries and correct apostrophe abuse.

Submitted by: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>


# 143232 07-Mar-2005 yar

Add a story about confusing information theory with thermodynamics.


# 143122 04-Mar-2005 phk

Another good Dijkstra quote.


# 143112 03-Mar-2005 phk

Add missing quote.


# 143111 03-Mar-2005 phk

Wisdom from 1972.


# 142561 26-Feb-2005 yar

Add a neat remark on the popular belief that the universe is a safe
the man ought to break open and rob.


# 141505 08-Feb-2005 ru

Keep only one style of Pittsburgh driver's tests.

Noticed by: Pawel Worach


# 141476 07-Feb-2005 ru

Trim more cookies, by playing with different hash functions,
e.g., by trimming all non-alphabet characters and whitespace,
converting to lowercase, and considering only first (or last)
N letters (maybe only consonants). The fortune editor then
displays all fortunes that have the same hash, and allows to
remove one of them. The rest is written to stdout.


# 141188 03-Feb-2005 ru

Ignore consonants, and remove more duplicates.


# 141184 03-Feb-2005 ru

Removed more duplicates (forgot to ignore underscore).


# 141183 03-Feb-2005 ru

Keep the fortune above this.

Reviewed by: sheldonh


# 141182 03-Feb-2005 ru

Remove more duplicates.


# 141181 03-Feb-2005 ru

Ignore vowels, and remove more duplicates, mostly due to typos.


# 141180 03-Feb-2005 des

Trim some obnoxious warlording.


# 141179 03-Feb-2005 ru

Removed more duplicates, by ignoring "i", "you", "we",
"an", "is", "are", "will", "'ll", "is", "'s" to find
them. More to follow...


# 141160 02-Feb-2005 ru

Merged fortunes with fortunes2.
Sort fortunes (except for the first entry).


# 141135 02-Feb-2005 ru

Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2.


# 141120 01-Feb-2005 ru

Ignore case and all non-word characters, and remove more duplicates.


# 141119 01-Feb-2005 pav

- Add few lines from my personal signature file

Suggested by: Florent Thoumie
Approved by: mux


# 141114 01-Feb-2005 ru

Removed full duplicates that only differ in amount of whitespace
and line breaks.


# 140626 22-Jan-2005 wilko

s/principals/principles/

Fortune was duplicated, remove one copy.


# 140496 19-Jan-2005 grog

Add comment on current state of hardware documentation.

Submitted by: philip


# 139259 24-Dec-2004 wilko

"3 hands"


# 138695 11-Dec-2004 dds

From Richard W. Hamming ``You and Your Research''
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar
7 March 1986 by J. F. Kaiser:

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are
sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts
that people cannot think.


# 138130 27-Nov-2004 dds

The Ken Thompson school of thought on expert systems:
there's table lookup, fraud, and grand fraud.
-- Andrew Hume

USENIX'04 Technical Conference, reported by Adam S. Moskowitz
;Login: 29(5):49, October 2004.


# 137000 27-Oct-2004 wilko

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.


# 136793 22-Oct-2004 phk

Improve accuracy of last addition, as best Google advices me.


# 136783 22-Oct-2004 phk

I'm surprised this one was not here yet.

To save you all a trip to CVSWEB:

Experts have correctly predicted nine out of the last five recessions.
-- Paul Samuelson, Nobel laureate in economics.


# 134202 23-Aug-2004 blackend

s/the on/on the/

PR: misc/70842
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>


# 134079 20-Aug-2004 des

Immortalize the words of a -current reader.


# 133764 15-Aug-2004 rwatson

Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrand
Russell.


# 132673 26-Jul-2004 des

The name of the landlord in Shaw's _The Man of Destiny_ is Giuseppe (not
Guiseppe) Gandi.

Submitted by: Massimiliano Stucchi <stucchi@willystudios.com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 132443 20-Jul-2004 le

Fix whitespace and punctuation.

PR: misc/49967
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>


# 131019 24-Jun-2004 wollman

Add a Nicollism.


# 129932 01-Jun-2004 des

Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman.


# 129921 01-Jun-2004 dougb

* Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace)
* Spell out some names that were pointlessly abbreviated
* Remove a couple of incidental duplicates
* Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was added to his
name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore it's not usually punctuated.
* Format a couple of actual fortunes to fit into 72 columns


# 129731 25-May-2004 wollman

Definition of recursion.


# 129121 11-May-2004 fanf

Pedantry.

Submitted by: njl@


# 129108 11-May-2004 fanf

On the signs of network congestion.

Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>


# 129106 10-May-2004 fanf

Re-sort


# 129104 10-May-2004 fanf

Moore's law vs. Nethack

Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>


# 128734 29-Apr-2004 cperciva

Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong.


# 128538 21-Apr-2004 grog

Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages.


# 128494 20-Apr-2004 ceri

Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele.

"Ukulele" is the canonical term, with "ukelele" being a derivation.
Also there is some evidence that the original appearance of the quote
had the spelling "ukulele", although anyone who has a copy of Esquire
from March 1967 is welcome to prove me wrong.

PR: bin/65626
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>


# 127294 22-Mar-2004 grog

Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering.


# 125627 09-Feb-2004 wes

Too good to miss.

Wisdumb by: Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>


# 124731 19-Jan-2004 schweikh

"The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.

Spotted by: grog


# 124461 13-Jan-2004 phk

typo, duh!


# 124459 13-Jan-2004 phk

This is simply too true to not become a fortune.

Wisdom by: wes


# 123877 26-Dec-2003 schweikh

Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
few typos.


# 123232 07-Dec-2003 phk

A too good Feynman quote to pass up.


# 122578 12-Nov-2003 phk

Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.


# 121293 20-Oct-2003 phk

Addition.


# 121137 16-Oct-2003 fanf

A comment about spam and cockroaches.

Suggested by: dwmalone


# 121112 15-Oct-2003 tg

Fix typo.


# 120886 07-Oct-2003 wollman

Retrocomputing alternate history....


# 118010 25-Jul-2003 mux

Remove a duplicate entry.


# 117598 14-Jul-2003 mph

Eliminate a duplicate.


# 117597 14-Jul-2003 jhb

Add a quote of wpaul@ explaining the importance of including requested
content when replying to an e-mail.


# 116524 18-Jun-2003 joerg

Preserve an involunteerily joke SunCheckup has been providing.
(NB: the space before the colon in the second line is authentic, please
don't remove.)


# 115452 31-May-2003 hoek

Fixup three rather minor typos that have irked me over time.


# 112251 15-Mar-2003 grog

Add long-term view of astronomy.

Submitted by: newton

The attribution appears to be correct according to
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/sagan.htm. Others have apparently
attributed it to Carl Sagan.


# 111531 26-Feb-2003 wollman

Fix style of recent additions and sort.


# 111530 26-Feb-2003 mike

Add a great quote from Linus Torvalds about BDE.


# 111436 24-Feb-2003 schweikh

Fix a grammar bogon.

Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door.


# 111093 18-Feb-2003 fanf

Add Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming.


# 111016 16-Feb-2003 schweikh

Correct typos.

Submitted by: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after: 4.8 is out the door


# 110732 11-Feb-2003 wes

Add Warner Losh quote.
Submitted by: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>


# 110652 10-Feb-2003 mike

Immortalize a Robert Watson quote.


# 109748 23-Jan-2003 fanf

Add an explanation of why indirection is good. Remove an indirection
filk that also appears in fortunes2.


# 108533 01-Jan-2003 schweikh

Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
especially in troff files.


# 106176 29-Oct-2002 fanf

The future's bright: the future's Ballard...


# 106131 29-Oct-2002 phk

Add a fortune for people who have read their classics.


# 105433 19-Oct-2002 fanf

So a positive time zone offset is west, right? or is it east? Um.
What is the standard for this, anyway? Ah, we get to choose. I see.

This commit is brought to you by the numbers 2001 and 2822 and the
letters P, O, S, I, X and R, F, C.


# 103221 11-Sep-2002 tg

Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate
Bertrand Russell quotations.


# 102746 31-Aug-2002 dwmalone

Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.

PR: 7434


# 101604 09-Aug-2002 fanf

Remove some Dijkstra quotes from fortunes that are duplicated in fortunes2.
Move the single remaining one across to fortunes2 to join its friends.
Spell his name consistently. Remove a couple of other duplicate fortunes.


# 101601 09-Aug-2002 fanf

Re-sort.


# 101600 09-Aug-2002 fanf

Remove spurious quotes.


# 101599 09-Aug-2002 fanf

Correctly sort previous addition.


# 101598 09-Aug-2002 fanf

Some more advice from Dijkstra.


# 99633 09-Jul-2002 peter

Add C code that counts the bits in a 32 bit word, right next to the C code
that reverses the bits in a 32 bit word. Who thinks up this stuff?


# 96633 15-May-2002 dougb

Correctly attribute a Douglas Adams quote, and remove a duplicate of
the same quote.


# 95853 01-May-2002 mph

s/-300K/~300K/

This is an absolute (kelvin) temperature. I expect that in the original
source it was typeset as $\sim 300~{\rm K}$ or similar, meaning
"approximately 300 K". Changing it to a minus sign in the fortunes file
was clearly an error, as absolute temperatures are by definition positive.


# 95789 30-Apr-2002 dougb

More ispell fun


# 95698 28-Apr-2002 jmallett

Spell out the name of Hunter S. Thompson.


# 95695 28-Apr-2002 dougb

Move the Rush Limbaugh fortunes to the offensive file, right after the
Anti-Reagan section. :) Apparently, people find opinions contrary to
their own to be offensive.


# 95690 28-Apr-2002 dougb

* Add a quote about the differences between human and machine
understanding from Ellen Ullman.
* Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering
of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script.


# 95677 28-Apr-2002 dougb

* Add $FreeBSD$ to limerick and zippy
* Delete trailing white space in all its forms. In addition to being
bad style in general, it also causes formatting, and other problems
for various third party items (like xscreensaver) which use fortunes
for their own purposes.


# 95492 26-Apr-2002 ceri

There is no host called new.bbc.co.uk - fix url.

Reviewed by: jkh
Approved by: jkh, murray
MFC after: 3 days


# 95466 25-Apr-2002 wollman

Sort.


# 95465 25-Apr-2002 wollman

Spell Fred Brooks's name right.


# 95463 25-Apr-2002 wollman

Add a few more aphorisms.


# 95413 25-Apr-2002 wollman

Add some of uncontroversial fortunes from my files.


# 93397 29-Mar-2002 jhb

Add a new fortune seen in the sig of an e-mail.

Submitted by: ue (indirectly)
Approved by: eivind


# 91927 09-Mar-2002 dd

Assorted mechanical fixes.

PR: 34790
Submitted by: Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>


# 91251 25-Feb-2002 phk

Add one.

Submitted by: jedgar
Reviewed by: The usual gang of idiots in that IRC channel.


# 89008 07-Jan-2002 tg

Clean up G. B. Shaw quotes:
- fix missing punctuation,
- remove duplicates in fortunes2,
- don't abbreviate first names.

Remove duplication of Shaw's principle in fortunes2.


# 88753 31-Dec-2001 grog

Correct typo.


# 88305 20-Dec-2001 wilko

A case of ninfo (non-info)

Submitted by: Hans.VanSluis@compaq.com
MFC after: 1 month


# 87726 12-Dec-2001 wilko

Unix: Just Say No..

Obtained from: Jan.Hendriks@Compaq.com
MFC after: 3 days


# 87429 05-Dec-2001 jhb

Trim yet another duplicate fortune.


# 87428 05-Dec-2001 jhb

Properly sort the last two fortunes alphabetically.


# 87427 05-Dec-2001 jhb

Add a short commentary on libdialog by jkh.


# 87425 05-Dec-2001 jhb

Remove an incorrect duplicate Douglas Adam quote and properly format and
the correct duplicate. Both versions also attributed the quote to the
wrong book.


# 87424 05-Dec-2001 jhb

Fix a typo and add a missing period.


# 87420 05-Dec-2001 jhb

Remove some duplicate fortunes.


# 86989 27-Nov-2001 phk

s/Kenned y/Kennedy/

Pointed out by: $a_lot_of_people


# 86986 27-Nov-2001 phk

This string of coincidences was too good to let pass.

Obtained from: BBC World Service on 9410kHz


# 86961 27-Nov-2001 peter

Fix some duplicate quotes and tidy up some Dr. Who quotes.


# 86296 12-Nov-2001 joe

Fix a typo:
Flinstone -> Flintstone.

Submitted by: grog (during the kernel debugging session at BSDConEurope)


# 86216 09-Nov-2001 dillon

Add terminating % so the last fortune can be found.
Add a fortune.


# 85976 03-Nov-2001 phk

Correct attribution and fix translation from Danish.


# 84536 05-Oct-2001 kris

Add some important advice for young optical physicists.


# 84055 27-Sep-2001 jhb

Borrow Peter's peril-sensitive sunglasses and add a short parody quoted in
the unnamed IRC channel.


# 82725 01-Sep-2001 kris

Update a duplicate quotation.

PR: 30228
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 80983 01-Aug-2001 kris

A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever
gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes,
then asks the backhoe operator for directions.
-- Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net>

Submitted by: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>


# 78516 20-Jun-2001 jhb

Document the mysterious Peter Wemm Murphy Field (PWMF).

Reviewed by: phk, eivind, nra


# 78515 20-Jun-2001 jhb

Remove some more duplicate fortunes.


# 78509 20-Jun-2001 jhb

Resort the last entry to its proper location. D definitely comes before Z.


# 78507 20-Jun-2001 jhb

Remove a duplicate entry.


# 75848 23-Apr-2001 imp

%DCL-I-FORMATRIGHT, Format VMS error messages pedantically correct.


# 74922 28-Mar-2001 phk

Remove a duplicate piece of chalk.

PR: 23132
Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>


# 74709 23-Mar-2001 wilko

Lets spell the guys name correctly: s/Avogardo/Avogadro/


# 72312 10-Feb-2001 phk

Remove spurious '"'.

PR: 24979
Submitted by: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>


# 71944 02-Feb-2001 phk

Unfortunately low-altitude overflights is not enough to make penguins crash.


# 70162 18-Dec-2000 phk

Remove a duplicate fortune.

PR: 21629
Submitted by: Sean C. Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>


# 68045 31-Oct-2000 grog

Correct a bignum.

Detected-by: lang/clisp
Approved-by: jkh


# 66343 25-Sep-2000 dcs

Add definitions of hardware and software.


# 64364 07-Aug-2000 jlemon

Add another Bill Paul quote.

Approved by: jkh


# 63965 28-Jul-2000 jmg

put the entires back in order.... I forgot to do that after we dicussed
this at the BSDi get together...


# 60991 28-May-2000 hoek

By overwhelming demand, revert the one=two joke to its previous form.
Also, fix a couple whitespace formatting errors and typos.

Note that the Klingon joke has a 12-point version in the
-chat list, mesg-id: <19990717120618.C269@marder-1> (thanks to
DES and to submitter doug@gorean). Also, note that the following
people need to learn to double-space after a period: <DougB@gorean.org>,
<des@flood.ping.uio.no>, <mellon@pobox.com>, <jeroen@vangelderen.org>,
and <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>.


# 60917 25-May-2000 hoek

Fix some newlines which have snuck in here in contradiction with
fortune's formatting rules.


# 60915 25-May-2000 hoek

Add some fortunes, typically gleaned from FreeBSD mailing lists, remove
some dups, fix some typos and formatting.

Submitted-by (in no particular order):
Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> (bin/12477)
David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> (misc/16647)
Zachary K Drew <drew0054@tc.umn.edu> (misc/16848)
Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> (misc/15809)
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> (bin/17085)
And myself.

Approved by: The Fortune Teller


# 59055 05-Apr-2000 jim

Add a new fortune and remove an email address.

Reviewed by: jkh


# 58587 26-Mar-2000 green

Put the '%' before the new appended fortune, not after.


# 58580 26-Mar-2000 peter

This, we believe, is the first commit
from Disneyland, committed via ssh
on a Palm + wireless.

Inspired by: ps
Thanks to: Glenn (Damn, now I want one of these :-)


# 57879 09-Mar-2000 grog

Fix typo.


# 55005 22-Dec-1999 joerg

Add the "3 syncs" fortune Jordan has been posting in Usenet years ago.

Found by: Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>


# 54045 02-Dec-1999 wes

Add Matt Fuller's comment about long-standing x86 bug that allows you
to install Windows.


# 53903 29-Nov-1999 grog

Brucify last commit:

- Use consistent capitalization.
- Subjects and verbs now agree.

Pointed-out-by: sheldonh


# 53861 28-Nov-1999 wes

Added definition of 'brucify'.

Submitted by: Eivind Eklund
Suggested by: Brian Somers


# 53741 27-Nov-1999 wes

Minor typo nit. Also, remove the redundant entry from fortunes2.

PR: bin/14239
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>


# 53208 15-Nov-1999 joe

Curchill --> Churchill

The submitter also posted a change to 'fortunes.sp.ok', but it
looks like this file is no longer needed in our version so I've
left the typo in the file. (It also doesn't have a $FreeBSD$ tag,
and I couldn't easily find in the code whether it will allow comments
within it or not.)

PR: 14832
Submitted by: mfisher@parsons.rh.rit.edu


# 52637 29-Oct-1999 chris

Remove my completely un-funny IRC fortune.

Reviewed by: jkh


# 52600 28-Oct-1999 des

Self-contradicting commit.


# 52581 28-Oct-1999 cpiazza

Lewis Carroll's name was spelled Lewis Carrol in some fortunes

PR: 14569
Submitted by: Janet Davis <janet@one-eyed-alien.net>


# 52546 27-Oct-1999 green

IRC wisdom.


# 52496 25-Oct-1999 wes

Add Kirk's comment about "copycenter"; it's just too good to pass up.


# 52463 24-Oct-1999 wes

Moderate the "public" fortunes file somewhat; add the original to
the -offensive database. Also provide some whimsy in the $FBSD$
headers.

Suggested by: The Kibbutz squad.


# 52432 21-Oct-1999 billf

Add a location to grog's assesment for historical reasons.

Submitted by: grog


# 52431 21-Oct-1999 nsayer

Some more old quotations I had sitting around that I shared and were
laughed at.

Reviewed by: the FreeBSDcon terminal room


# 52430 21-Oct-1999 billf

FreeBSDcon Wisdom.

Reviewed by: the anonymous members of the FreeBSDcon terminal room.


# 49608 10-Aug-1999 des

Document the usefulness of Michelle Pfeiffer in OS marketing.


# 49464 06-Aug-1999 mpp

Fix a bunch of typos and spelling errors.

PR: misc/12965
Partially Submitted by: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>


# 49217 29-Jul-1999 billf

A stupid nit, change freebsd to FreeBSD.


# 49210 29-Jul-1999 des

By popular request: Bill Paul's undying words.


# 49096 26-Jul-1999 grog

Add recognition that Microsoft NT does not exist.

Requested-by: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>


# 49050 24-Jul-1999 n_hibma

Fix typo.

PR: 12784
Submitted by: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>


# 41024 09-Nov-1998 peter

Fix typo (if it's not a typo, then it doesn't make sense IMHO)


# 34070 05-Mar-1998 alex

Teruillian --> Tertullian

PR: 5928
Submitted by: Doug <Studded@dal.net>


# 32528 15-Jan-1998 phk

spelling error.


# 28611 23-Aug-1997 jmg

minor fortune fixes:
o convert a ' to "
o remove a stray "
o format some attributations properly


# 26455 05-Jun-1997 ache

Remove some duplicated and incomplete entries


# 26056 23-May-1997 jmg

a bunch of formatting (\t -> \t\t) changes... so I was board one night.. :)


# 22245 03-Feb-1997 phk

The fact that people can't put the proper source on Kierkegaards
most famous insult to humanity can be forgiven, afterall, it
almost underlines the quote with irony, if one knows the context.

But to misspell the name of Alfred E. Neuman ...


# 22016 26-Jan-1997 mpp

Correct some grammar. Closes PR# 2520.

Submitted by: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>


# 21420 08-Jan-1997 mpp

Fix some typos and remove a couple of duplicate
fortunes. Closes PR#s 2358 and 2402.

Submitted by: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>


# 19928 22-Nov-1996 gpalmer

Fix minor typo/grammatical error

Submitted by: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> in PR 2085


# 13061 27-Dec-1995 joerg

Spell a German fortune correctly.


# 2491 04-Sep-1994 jkh

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r2490,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 2490 04-Sep-1994 jkh

Bring in the 4.4 Lite games directory, modulo man page changes and segregation
of the x11 based games. I'm not going to tag the originals with bsd_44_lite
and do this in two stages since it's just not worth it for this collection,
and I've got directory renames to deal with that way. Bleah.
Submitted by: jkh