Random fortune from modified knghtbrd1 by Joseph Carter Taken largely from conversations between Debian GNU/Linux hackers on IRC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- % * SynrG notes that the number of configuration questions to answer in sendmail is NON-TRIVIAL % * james would be more impressed if netgod's magic powers could stop the splits in the first place... * netgod notes debian developers are notoriously hard to impress % <sel> need help: my first packet to my provider gets lost :-( <netgod> sel: dont send the first one, start with #2 % <james> abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes % I never thought that I'd see the say where Netscape is free software and X11 is proprietary. We live in interesting times. -- Matt Kimball <mkimball@xmission.com> % <jim> Lemme make sure I'm not wasting time here... bcwhite will remove pkgs that havent been fixed that have outstanding bugs of severity "important". True or false? <JHM> jim: "important" or higher. True. <jim> Then we're about to lose ftp.debian.org and dpkg :) * netgod will miss dpkg -- it was occasionally useful <Joey> We still have rpm.... % <JHM> Being overloaded is the sign of a true Debian maintainer. % <Overfiend> partycle: I seriously do need a vacation from this package. I actually had a DREAM about introducing a stupid new bug into xbase-preinst last night. That's a Bad Sign. % Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better. -- Richard Stallman % Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response to a DNS query that was never made. Fix Information: Run your DNS service on a different platform. -- BugTraq % * dpkg hands stu a huge glass of vbeer * Joey takes the beer from stu, you're too young ;) * Cylord takes the beer from Joey, you're too drunk. * Cylord gives the beer to muggles. % We the people of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, in order to form a more perfect operating system, establish quality, insure marketplace diversity, provide for the common needs of computer users, promote security and privacy, overthrow monopolistic forces in the computer software industry, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Debian GNU/Linux System. % "This is the element_data structure for elements whose *element_type = FORM_TYPE_SELECT_ONE, FORM_TYPE_SELECT_MULT. */ /* * nesting deeper and deeper, harder and harder, go, go, oh, OH, OHHHHH!! * Sorry, got carried away there. */ struct lo_FormElementOptionData_struct." -- Mozilla source code % While the year 2000 (y2k) problem is not an issue for us, all Linux implementations will impacted by the year 2038 (y2.038k) issue. The Debian Project is committed to working with the industry on this issue and we will have our full plans and strategy posted by the first quarter of 2020. % ... Where was Stac Electronics when Microsoft invented Doublespace? Where were Xerox and Apple when Microsoft invented the GUI? Where was Apple's QuickTime when Microsoft invented Video for Windows? Where was Spyglass Inc.'s Mosaic when Microsoft invented Internet Explorer? Where was Sun when Microsoft invented Java? % I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. -- Ian Jackson % "my biggest problem with RH (and especially RH contrib packages) is that they DON'T have anything like our policy. That's one of the main reasons why their packages are so crappy and broken. Debian has the teamwork side of building a distribution down to a fine art." % "slackware users don't matter. in my experience, slackware users are either clueless newbies who will have trouble even with tar, or they are rabid do-it-yourselfers who wouldn't install someone else's pre-compiled binary even if they were paid to do it." % <xinkeT> "Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off." % <Overfiend> against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain % * dark has changed the topic on channel #debian to: Later tonight: After months of careful refrigeration, Debian 2.0 is finally cool enough to release. % I sat laughing snidely into my notebook until they showed me a PC running Linux. And oh! It was as though the heavens opened and God handed down a client-side OS so beautiful, so graceful, and so elegant that a million Microsoft developers couldn't have invented it even if they had a hundred years and a thousand crates of Jolt cola. -- LAN Times % I sat laughing snidely into my notebook until they showed me a PC running Linux.... And did this PC choke? Did it stutter? Did it, even once, say that this program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down? No. And this is just on the client. -- LAN Times % "I think that most debian developers are rather "strong willed" people with a great degree of understanding and a high level of passion for what they perceive as important in development of the debian system." --Bill Leach % "Actually, the only distribution of Linux I've ever used that passed the rootshell test out of the box (hit rootshell at the time the dist is released and see if you can break the OS with scripts from there) is Debian." -- seen on the Linux security-audit mailing list % * Culus fears perl - the language with optional errors % I am amazed that no-one's based a commercial distribution on Debian yet - it is by far the most solid UNIX-like OS I've ever installed, and I've played with HP/UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSDi, and SCO (not to mention OS/2, Novell, Win95/NT) -- Nathan Norman % <stu> you should be afraid to use KDE because RMS might come to your house and cleave your monitor with an axe or something :) % "and i actually like debian 2.0 that much i completely revamped the default config of the linux systems our company sells and reinstalled any of the linux systems in the office and here at home.." % <Davide> how bout a policy policing policy with a policy for changing the police policing policy % <dark> "Let's form the Linux Standard Linux Standardization Association Board. The purpose of this board will be to standardize Linux Standardization Organizations." % <Overfiend> Don't come crying to me about your "30 minute compiles"!! I have to build X uphill both ways! In the snow! With bare feet! And we didn't have compilers! We had to translate the C code to mnemonics OURSELVES!

<Overfiend> And I was 18 before we even had assemblers! % NEW YORK (CNN) -- Internet users who spend even a few hours a week online at home experience higher levels of depression and loneliness than if they had used the computer network less frequently, The New York Times reported Sunday. The result ... surprised both researchers and sponsors, which included Intel Corp., Hewlett Packard, AT&T Research and Apple Computer. % "What is striking, however, is the general layout and integration of the system. Debian is a truly elegant Linux distribution; great care has been taken in the preparation of packages and their placement within the system. The sheer number of packages available is also impressive...." % Debian Linux is a solid, comprehensive product, and a genuine pleasure to use. It is also great to become involved with the Debian collective, whose friendliness and spirit recalls the early days of the Internet and its sense of openness and global cooperation. % <Flood> can I write a unix-like kernel in perl? % <Flood> netgod: I also have a "Evil Inside" T-shirt (w/ Intel logo).. on the back it states: "When the rapture comes, will you have root?" % <zarkov> "NT 5.0. All the bugs and ten times the code size!" % <Culus> there is 150 meg in the /tmp dir! DEAR LORD % <toor> netgod: what do you have in your kernel??? The compiled source for driving a space shuttle???

<Spoo> time to make a zip drive your floppy drive then. if the kernel doesn fit on that, the kernel is an AI % Now I can finally explain to everyone why I do this. I just got $7 worth of free stuff for working on Debian ! % <ultima> netgod: My calculator has more registers than the x86, and -thats- sad % * boren tosses matlab across the room and hopes it breaks into a number aproaching infinite peices % "...It was a lot faster than I thought it was going to be, much faster than NT. If further speed increases are done to the server for the final release, Oracle is going to be able to wipe their ass with SQL SERVER and hand it back to M$ while the Oracle admins ... migrate their databases over to Linux!" % World Domination, of course. And scantily clad females. Who cares if its twenty below? -- Linus Torvalds % <Flav> Win 98 Psychic edition: We'll tell you where you're going tomorrow % <zpx> it's amazing how "not-broken" debian is compared to slack and rh % <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." % "In the event of a percieved 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" -- proposed amendment to Debian Constitution % <Diziet> Fuck, I can't compile the damn thing and I wrote it ! % <Overfiend> we're calling 2.2 _POTATO_?? % <SirDibos> does Johnie Ingram hang out here on IRC? % * Twilight1 will have to hang his Mozilla beanie dinosaur in effigy if Netscape sells-out to Alot Of Losers.. % <lux> if macOS is for the computer illiterate, then windoze is for the computer masochists % <dark> Culus: Building a five-meter-high replica of the Empire State Building with paperclips is impressive. Doing it blindfolded is eleet. % I can just see it now: nomination-terrorism ;-) -- Manoj

haha! i nominate manoj. -- seeS % <JHM> Somehow I have more respect for 14 year old Debian developers than 14 year old Certified Microsoft Serfs. % <Culus> Ben: Do you solumly swear to read you debian email once a day and do not permit people to think you are MIA? <Ben> Culus: i do so swear % "I wonder if this is the first constitution in the history of mankind where you have to calculate a square root to determine if a motion passes. :-)" -- Seen on Slashdot % This is the solution to Debian's problem .. and since the only real way to create more relatives of developers is to have children, we need more sex! It's a long term investment ... it's the work itself that is satisfying! -- Craig Brozefsky % <marcus> dunham: You know how real numbers are constructed from rational numbers by equivalence classes of convergent sequences? <dunham> marcus: yes. % <Culus> "Hello?" "Hi baybee" "Are you Johnie Ingram?" "For you I'll be anyone" "Ermm.. Do you sell slink CD's?" "I love slinkies" % <Overfiend> xhost +localhost should only be done by people who would paint their hostname and root password on an interstate overpass. % <JHM> AIX - the Unix from the universe where Spock has a beard. % <Knghtbrd> Studies prove that research causes cancer in 43% of laboratory rats

<CQ> knghtbrd- yeah, but 78% of those statistics are off by 52%... % <stu> apt: !bugs <apt> !bugs are stupid <dpkg> apt: are stupid? what's that? <apt> dpkg: i don't know <dpkg> apt: Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... <apt> i already had it that way, dpkg. % <muggles> i'm trying to convince some netcom admins i know to convert to Debian from RH, netgod, but they are DAMN stubborn <muggles> why RH users so damned hard headed? <Espy> it's the hat % <doogie> Debian - All the power, without the silly hat. % How many months are we going to be behind them [Redhat] with a glibc release?" -- Jim Pick, 8 months before Debian 2.0 is finally released % The purpose of having mailing lists rather than having newsgroups is to place a barrier to entry which protects the lists and their users from invasion by the general uneducated hordes. -- Ian Jackson % Most of us feel that marketing types are like a dangerous weapon - keep 'em unloaded and locked up in a cupboard, and only bring them out when you need them to do a job. -- Craig Sanders % <BenC> cerb: we subscribed you to debian-fight as the moderator <BenC> cerb: list rules are, 1) no nice emails, 2) no apologies % <Teknix> our local telco has admitted that someone "backed into a button on a switch" and took the entire ATM network down

<netgod> hopefully now routers are designed better, so the "network off" swtich is on the back % <Overfiend> Thunder-: when you get { MessagesLikeThisFromYourHardDrive } <Overfiend> Thunder-: it either means { TheDriverIsScrewy } <Overfiend> or <Overfiend> { YourDriveIsFlakingOut BackUpYourDataBeforeIt'sTooLate PrayToGod } % <apt> it has been said that redhat is the thing Marc Ewing wears on his head. % <MrCurious> by the power of greyskull <MrCurious> someone tell me the ban to place <Sopwith> mrcurious: *.debian.org, *.novare.net <philX> *.debian.org. that's awesome. -- Seen on LinuxNet #linux % "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the US population would be scouring garage sales & Goodwill for old TRS-80s, CPM machines & Apple ]['s before they would buy Microsoft. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement." -- Seen on Slashdot % "Bruce McKinney, author of of Hardcore Visual Basic, has announced that he's fed up with VB and won't be writing a 3rd edition of his book. The best quote is at the end: 'I don't need a language designed by a focus group'." % <Cylord> Would it be acceptable to debian policy if we inserted a crontab by default into potato that emailed bill.gates@microsoft.com every morning with an email that read, "Don't worry, linux is a fad..." % * Overfiend ponders doing an NMU of asclock, in which he simply changes the extended description to "If you bend over and put your head between your legs, you can read the time off your assclock."

<doogie> Overfiend: go to bed. % <Reed> It is important to note that the primary reason the Roman Empire fail is that they had no concept of zero... thus they could not test the success or failure of their C programs. % Since when has the purpose of debian been to appease the interests of the mass of unskilled consumers? -- Steve Shorter % <joeyh> netgod: er, are these 2.2.0 packages 2.0.0pre9 or do you have a direct line with the gods?

<netgod> joeyh: i have the direct line % <_Anarchy_> Argh.. who's handing out the paper bags 8) % <awkward> anyone around? <Flav> no, we're all irregular polygons % <Culus> OH MY GOD NOT A RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR <netgod> surely you didnt think that was static? how lame would that be? :-) % Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse for declaring a thing unseeable. You *can* see dragons. You just have to look in the right direction. -- John Hasler % <Chalky> gcc is the best compressor ever ported to linux. it can turn 12MB of kernel source (and that's .debbed) into a 500k kernel % <Manoj> I *like* the chicken %

[ ] DOGBERT [ 2 ] RICHARD STALLMAN [ 3 ] BUFFY SUMMERS [ 1 ] MANOJ SRIVASTAVA [ 4 ] NONE of the above

-- Debian Project Leader 1999 ballot % <Oryn> anyone know if there is a version of dpkg for redhat? % acme-cannon (3.1415) unstable; urgency=low

* Added safety to prevent operator dismemberment, closes: bug #98765, bug #98713, #98714. * Added manpage. closes: #98725.

-- Wile E. Coyote <genius@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:49:57 -0600 % !netgod:*! time flies when youre using linux !doogie:*! yeah, infinite loops in 5 seconds. !Teknix:*! has anyone re-tested that with 2.2.x ? !netgod:*! yeah, 4 seconds now % * dark greets liw with a small yellow frog.

* liw kisses the frog and watches it transform to a beautiful nerd girl, takes her out to ice cream, and lives happily forever after with her

<dark> liw: Umm it's too late to have the frog back? % * Culus thinks we should go to trade shows and see how many people we can kill by throwing debian cds at them % <dark> "Yes, your honour, I have RSA encryption code tattood on my penis. Shall I show the jury?" % <Knghtbrd> you people are all insane. <Joey> knight: sure, that's why we work on Debian. <JHM> Knghtbrd: get in touch with your inner nutcase. % <Culus> Saens demonstrates no less than 3 tcp/ip bugs in 2.2.3 % <Mercury> alexsh: Be /VERY/ cairful, you could, if your unlucky, fry your motherboards..

<Knghtbrd> Mercury - sounds like fun % <rcw> dark: caldera? <Knghtbrd> rcw - that's not a distribution, it's a curse <rcw> Knghtbrd: it's a cursed distribution % Software is like sex, it's better when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds % <dark> Knghtbrd: We have lots of whatevers. <Knghtbrd> dark - In Debian? Hell yeah we do! % I did it just to piss you off. :-P -- Branden Robinson in a message to debian-devel % The software required Win95 or better, so I installed Linux. % 10) there is no 10, but it sounded like a nice number :) -- Wichert Akkerman % Eric Raymond: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck.

Richard Stallman: Any software that isn't free sucks.

Linus Torvalds: I'm interested in free beer.

Richard Stallman: That's okay, as long as I don't have to drink it. I don't like beer. -- LinuxWorld Expo panel, 4 March 1999 % I'm not a level-headed person... -- Bruce Perens % Personally, I don't often talk about social good because when I hear other people talk about social good, that's when I reach for my revolver. -- Eric Raymond % If we want something nice to get born in nine months, then sex has to happen. We want to have the kind of sex that is acceptable and fun for both people, not the kind where someone is getting screwed. Let's get some cross fertilization, but not someone getting screwed. -- Larry Wall % We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- Linus Torvalds % YES! YES! YES! Oh, YES! (ooops, I sound like Meg Ryan ;-) -- Ian Nandhra % <Knghtbrd> If I start writing essays about Free Software for slashdot, please shoot me. % <RoboHak> hmm, lunch does sound like a good idea <Knghtbrd> would taste like a good idea too % p.s. - i'm about *this* close to running around in the server room with a pair of bolt cutters, and a large wooden mallet, laughing like a maniac and cutting everything i can fit the bolt cutters around. and whacking that which i cannot. so if i seem semi-incoherent, or just really *really* nasty at times, please forgive me. stress is not a pretty thing. };P -- Phillip R. Jaenke % Every company complaining about Microsoft's business practices is simply a rose bush. They look lovely and smell nice. Once a lucky company dethrones Microsoft they will shed their petals to expose the thorns underneath. A thorn by any other name would hurt as much. % Something must be Done This is Something Therefore, This must be Done -- The Thatcherite Syllogism % <Knghtbrd> xtifr - beware of james when he's off his medication => % "All we have to fear is fear itself!" "And almost but not quite free software..." "That too." "And binary only kernel drivers." "Okay, yeah, that too." "And..." "---shush." % Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares? % Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein % <wc> red dye causes cancer, haven't you heard? (; <Knghtbrd> fucking everything causes cancer, haven't you heard? <Knghtbrd> => <archon> no, that causes aids % Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them. -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac" % * lilo hereby declares OPN a virtual pain in the ass :) % "They are both businesses - if you have given them enough money, I'm sure they'll do whatever the hell you ask:->" -- David Welton % "You have the right not to be an asshole. If you give up that right everything you say and do in here will be held against you. If you cannot afford to stop being an asshole then someone will be appointed to kick yours outta here." -- Your rights as an irc addict % * Simunye is so happy she has her mothers gene's <Dellaran> you better give them back before she misses them! % <Iambe> conning the most intellegent people on the planet is not easy % California, n.: From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex." -- Ed Moran % * Caytln slaps Lisa <Caytln> catfight :P <LisaHere> Watch it girl, I like that. <LisaHere> :) <Caytln> figures :D % <MFGolfBal> rit/ara: There's something really demented about UNIX underwear... % The X Window System: The standard UNIX graphical environment. With Linux, this is usually XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org). You may call it X, XFree, the X Window System, XF86, or a host of other things. Call it 'XWindows' and someone will smack you and you will have deserved it. % <Knghtbrd> "The currency collectors are offline." "I'm rerouting though the secondary couplings. If we re-align the phase manifold we should be able to use the plasma inductor matrix to manually launch a new cheesy spinoff series." * ShadwDrgn sighs <Phase> you leave my manifolds alone <Phase> ! % * Turken thinks little kids are absolutely adorable... especialyy when they're someone elses. % * Tv lives in X. * Knghtbrd lives in console * wichert lives in the netherlands * Espy is dead % * Overfiend sighs <Overfiend> Netscape sucks. <Overfiend> It is a house of cards resting on a bed of quicksand. <Espy> during an earthquake <Overfiend> in a tornado % <SilverStr> media ethics is an oxymoron, much like Jumbo Shrimp and Microsoft Works. <MonkAway> not to mention NT Security % <Silvrbear> Oxymorons? I saw one yesterday - the pamphlet on "Taco Bell Nutritional Information" % * Knghtbrd unleashes a pair of double barreled snurf guns and covers jesus with snurf darts <jesus> meany :P % <jgoerzen> doogie: you sound highly unstable :-) <Knghtbrd> jgoerzen - he is. * doogie bops Knghtbrd <Knghtbrd> see? Resorting to violence =D % I have also been a huge Unix fan ever since I realized that SCO was not Unix. -- Dennis Baker % <dracus> Ctrl+Option+Command + P + R <Knghtbrd> dracus - YE GODS! That's worse than EMACS! <LauraDax> hehehehe <dracus> don't ask what that does :P % <Iambe> you are not a nutcase <Knghtbrd> You obviously don't know me well enough yet. => % * aj thinks Kb^Zzz ought to pick different things to dream about than general resolutions and policy changes. <Kb^Zzz> aj - tell me about it, this is a Bad Sign % <Crow_> hmm, is there a --now-dammit option for exim? % <DarthVadr> Kira: JOIN THE DARK SIDE, YOUNG ONE. <kira> darth, I *am* the dark side. % <netgod> Feanor: u have no idea of the depth of the stupidty of american law % Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me. -- Linus Torvalds % <lilo> "PLEASE RESPECT INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS!" <lilo> "Please demonstrate intellect." ;) % <Knghtbrd> Feanor - license issues are important. If we don't watch our arses now, someone's gonna come up and bite us later... % "Now we'll have to kill you." -- Linus Torvalds % * knghtbrd can already envision: "Subject: [INTENT TO PREPARE TO PROPOSE FILING OF BUG REPORT] Typos in the policy document" % <netgod> heh thats a lost cause, like the correct pronounciation of "jewelry" <netgod> give it up :-) <sage> and the correct spelling of "colour" :) <BenC> heh <sage> and aluminium <BenC> or nuclear weapons <sage> are you threating me yankee ? <sage> just cause we don't have the bomb... <BenC> back off ya yellow belly % <LauraDax> !seen god <Tabi-> LauraDax, I don't remember seeing "god" % <Knghtbrd> Europe Passes Pro-spam Law <Knghtbrd> I though only Americans were that fucking stupid => <Espy> apparently americans are quite naive :) % <kira> is a surgical war where you go give the foreign troops nose jobs? % <xtifr> Athena Desktop Environment! In your hearts, you *know* it's the right choice! :) * Knghtbrd THWAPS xtifr % <Knghtbrd> shaleh - unclean is just WEIRD. <Espy> heh, unclean is cool <Knghtbrd> Espy - and weird. <Espy> yes, weird too % <xtifr> direct brain implants :) <knghtbrd> xtifr - yah, then using computers would actually require some of these idiots to think! <knghtbrd> ;> % <Knghtbrd> Overfiend - BTW, after we've discovered X takes all of 1.4 GIGS to build, are you willing admit that X is bloatware? => <Overfiend> KB: there is a 16 1/2 minute gap in my answer <acf> knghtbrd: evidence exists that X is only the *2nd* worst windowing system ;) % <liw> damn, the autonomous mouse movement starts usually after I use a mouse button <wichert> don't use a mouse button then :) <liw> yeah, right :) % <Knghtbrd> you know, Linux needs a platform game starring Tux <Knghtbrd> kinda Super Marioish, but with Tux and things like little cyber bugs and borgs and that sort of thing ... <Knghtbrd> And you have to jump past billgatus and hit the key to drop him into the lava and then you see some guy that looks like a RMS or someone say "Thank you for rescuing me Tux, but Linus Torvalds is in another castle!" % <Thoth_> Yeah, well that's why it's numbered 2.3.1... it's for those of us who miss NT-like uptimes % <Shinobi> There are worse things than Perl....ASP comes to mind % * m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger... <Knghtbrd> m2 - that's a bad sign % <Knghtbrd> Leave it to manoj to call procmail "puny" % <Crow-> Manoj: well, i cant 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) <Manoj> Knghtbrd: You need to finish the s/// expression. <Knghtbrd> oh, is that all? % <kira> Ada, the only language written to milspec. <Mikster> <shudder> % <BenC> -include ../../debian/el33t.h <BenC> sendmail build...strange header name :) <isildur> hahaha * netgod laffs <netgod> BenC: can u tell i used to maintain sendmail? :P <BenC> heh :) % <Phase> no... I musn't have any more coffee !!! ;) <Simunye> sure yu do Phase :) <Phase> you really want me bouncing off the ceiling? <Simunye> yesh :) <kira_> bouncing off the ceiling is gewd <Phase> ok, that was a silly question <kira_> it's splatting on the floor that's the problem. % <Kensey> RMS for President??? <RelDrgn> ...or ESR, he wants a new job ;) % Oh no, not again. -- Manoj Srivastava % <Knghtbrd> Granted, RMS is a fanatic, I don't deny this. I'll even say he's a royal pain in the arse most of the time. But he's still more often right than not, and he deserves some level of credit and respect for his work. We would NOT be here today without him. % <Espy> tomorrow there will be a great disturbance in the workforce -- May 18, 1999 % I am dyslexic of Borg. Prepare to have your ass laminated. % <NeonKttn> I had a friend stick me in her closet during highschool beacuse I wouldn't believe that her boyfriend knew about foreplay... <NeonKttn> I shoulda brought popcorn. :) % <Knghtbrd> hardcopy is for wussies <Topher> computer program listings....next, on HardCopy % <kceee^> I hate users <knghtbrd> you sound like a sysadmin already! % <change_m2> Will LINUX ever overtake sliced bread as the #1 achievement of mankind? % <aph> manoj is going nuts on the bug fixing crusade! woo woo! <Knghtbrd> manoj went nuts long time ago. but the bug fixing is cool => % <rcw> those apparently-bacteria-like multicolor worms coming out of microsoft's backorifice <rcw> that's the backoffice logo % * Simunye is on a oc3->oc12 <daem0n> simmy: bite me. :) <Simunye> daemon: okay :) % <Overfiend> lilo: well then, you are probably a responsible thinker. Welcome to a very small club. <lilo> Overfiend: welcome me when you join :) % Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules, it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules. -- Linus Torvalds % * wichert_ imagines master without a MTA <james> wichert: ehm? that might hinder peformance of the BTS :p % <gecko> Hmm... I wonder what else seperates 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 FROM those distros <Knghtbrd> gecko - point. % Due to the closed source development model of XFree it is impossible to support, or even speculate about, features in pre- or beta releases of XFree. -- Marcus Sundberg % > >I don't really regard bible-kjv-text as a technical document, > > but... :)

> It's a manual -- for living.

But it hasn't been updated in a long time, many would say that it's sadly out of date, and the upstream maintainer doesn't respond to his email. :-) -- Branden Robinson, Oliver Elphick, and Chris Waters in a message to debian-policy % <Knghtbrd> I can think of lots of people who need USER=ID10T someplace! <Knghtbrd> It'd be a great service to mankind don't you think? % <slashdot> my US geograpy is lousy...lol <knghtbrd> so's mine and I live here % Moonchild without an opinion? Satan is skating to work tomorrow! -- Brett Manz % <Knghtbrd> I really don't want much at all... Just a kind word, an attractive woman, and UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH!! % <Knghtbrd> If we're both right (I'm guessing we are) I'm Not Very Happy. * Minupla hands you the understatement of the year award. % Last time I had intimate contact with another human being was rather a painful experience... I rather liked it... ;) -- Brett Manz % <Apple_IIe> anyone seen my 80 column card? % <Slackware> uh oh, what have I started :) <Debian> rofl... distro nick wars. * Slackware just waits for /nick Gnome, /nick KDE, and then world war 4 to break out <WinNT> :oP <OpenBSD> <duck> <PalmOS> :) <Slackware> no'one would dare /nick RedHat <tru64> mew. % <Crow-> im fcucking druk * Knghtbrd makes sure to log everything Crow- says tonight ... <MrBump> heheh <MrBump> He said he'd marry me! damnit!! <Crow-> dude no way <Knghtbrd> MrBump - he's not THAT drunk <MrBump> Knghtbrd: I'm crushed :o) % <Knghtbrd> aggh! <Knghtbrd> MAKE IT STOP! <Knghtbrd> MAKE IT STOP!! % <Knghtbrd> RoboHak - okay, the patch isn't broken, but my brain apparently is <wc> that's nothing new (; <Knghtbrd> wc - hush. <Knghtbrd> => % <dpg> americans are wierd.... <xtifr> californians even weirder <Knghtbrd> xtifr has a point ... % * woot smiles serenely. <woot> I don't want to seem over eager about getting into knghtbrd's siglist. % <Culus> dhd: R you part of the secret debian overstructure? <dhd> no. there is no secret debian overstructure. <CosmicRay> although, now that somebody brought it up, let's start one :-) <Knghtbrd> CosmicRay - why not, sounds like a fun way to spend the afternoon =D % <Crow-> these stupid head hunters want resumes in ms word format <Crow-> can you write shit in tex and convert it to word? <Overfiend> \converttoword{shit} % <xtifr> you don't have to be insane to work here....oh wait, yes you do! :) % * o-o always like debmake because he knew exactly what it would do... <ibid> o-o: you would ;-) % 2.3.1 has been released. Folks new to this game should remember that 2.3.* releases are development kernels, with no guarantees that they will not cause your system to do horrible things like corrupt its disks, catch fire, or start running Mindcraft benchmarks. -- Slashdot % do { : } until (HELL_FREEZES_OVER); % 0 7 * * * echo "...Linux is just a fad" | mail billg@microsoft.com -s "And remember..." % <hop> kb: I demand integrity and honesty in those who i do business with <hop> i know my demands are unreasonable, but a guy can dream, can't he? % <jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-) <stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386 with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman. <stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor * Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing <stu> and.. <stu> double-height hard drive % == Signoff: Beregond (Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they have 'arguments' -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.) at 02:00PM % * Knghtktty is not going to ask how zucchini got into the discussion ... % <Knghtbrd> Subject: [GR PROPOSAL] Should we vote on trivial matters? % <woot> Put *that* in you .sig and smoke it, Knghtbrd. <Culus> You know he will read this :> <woot> heheheheh. % "As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something." -- Hagar the Horrible % <Crow-> who gives a shit about US law <jim> anyone living in the US. % <Knghtbrd> Okay, you people have started talking about BSDM applications of network hardware... I think I'll run off and do something useful and Debianish and stay OUT of this one... <Knghtbrd> (for a change) % <Knghtbrd> mariab - don't think Debian hasn't had some very stupid and obvious bugs before <Knghtbrd> of course, we usually fix ours BEFORE we release =D % <Knghtbrd> mariab - I am a Debian developer. Red Hat is "the enemy" or something like that I guess.. Still, typecasting RH users as idiots or their distribution as completely broken by default is complete and total FUD. % > > But IANAL, of course. > > IANAL either. My son is, but if I asked him I might get an answer I > wouldn't want to hear.

"Here's my invoice." ? =D % > Ok, I see you know what you're doing :-)

Either that or I've gotten pretty good at faking it. % <wichert> 8am is an ungoldly hour to be awake :) * gorgo usually gets up at 11am % There Is No Cabal. % <_Anarchy_> acf: maybe April 1 next year slashdot needs to run "Rob Malda accepts new job as head of Debian project" 8) % * netgod opens his mailbox and immediately wishes he hadnt % <frogbert> its hard being a lesbian withoutn breasts...people dont take you seriously % Perhaps Debian is concerned more about technical excellence rather than ease of use by breaking software. In the former we may excel. In the latter we have to concede the field to Microsoft. Guess where I want to go today? -- Manoj Srivastava % * PerlGeek is really a space alien * Knghtktty believes PerlGeek % // Minor lesson: don't fuck about with something you don't fully understand -- the dosdoom source code % <netgod> my client has been owned severely <netgod> this guy got root, ran packet sniffers, installed .rhosts and backdoors, put a whole new dir in called /lib/" ", which has a full suite of smurfing and killing tools <netgod> the only mistake was not deleting the logfiles <netgod> question is how was root hacked, and that i couldnt tell u <netgod> it is, of course, not a debian box * netgod notes the debian box is the only one left untouched by the hacker -- wonder why % * joeyh cvs commits his home directory. Aaaaaa <drow> eeeeeeek <drow> joeyh: That is simply evil. Period. % <Kethryvis> Gruuk: UFies are above and beyond the human race :) % I stopped a long time ago to try to find anything in the bug list of dpkg. We should run for an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. -- Stephane Bortzmeyer % <ahzz_> i figured 17G oughta be enough. % <n3tg0d> has /usr/bin/emacs been put into /etc/shells yet? :P % * joeyh takes advantage of netscape's marvelous ability to crash to close 10 windows with a single keypress <joeyh> now that's progress! <Knghtbrd> Bus error => % <Wordplay> You measure your vibrators in "characters per second"? I have bad news for you, c90, you've been masturbating with a dot-matrix printer. % Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! % * Knghtktty whispers sweet nothings to Thyla (stuff about compilers and graphics and ram upgrades and big hard drives...) <Thyla> oooooooooOOOOOOOOOO <Infinitas> Knghtktty: that's positively pornographic... * Thyla goes off into fits of ecstasy... % <Sanaya> you guys are all sick! sick sick sick I tell ya ;) % * bma is a yank * Knghtbrd is a Knghtbrd * dhd is also a yank * Espy is evil * Knghtbrd believes Espy % * bma wonders if this will make the Knghtbrd .sig % Techical solutions are not a matter of voting. Two legislations in the US states almost decided that the value of Pi be 3.14, exactly. Popular vote does not make for a correct solution. -- Manoj Srivastava % <aj> <Knghtbrd> the increase in tension worldwide (as evidenced by crime <aj> and whatnot) over that time period looks a lot like Linux <aj> growth since 1993 <aj> ``Linux linked to worldwide crime epidemic!!'' % <Teller> where am I and what am I doing in this handbasket? % Since this database is not used for profit, and since entire works are not published, it falls under fair use, as we understand it. However, if any half-assed idiot decides to make a profit off of this, they will need to double check it all... -- Notes included with the default fortunes database % There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. % Subject: Bug#42432: debian-policy: Proposal for CTV for Draft for Proof of Concept for Draft for Proposal for Proposal for CTV for a CTV to decide on a proposal for a CTV for the CTV on whether or not we shoud have a CTV on the /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc transition now, or later. -- Ed Lang % <Knghtbrd> It's a trackball for one <wichert> so it's not a rodent <wichert> it's a turd with a ball sticking out <wichert> which you fondle constantly % * 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. <Dr_Stein> why? you gonna eat the driver instead? % <netgod> is it me, or is Knghtbrd snoring? <joeyh> they killed knghtbrd! <netgod> Kysh: wichert, gecko, joeyh, and I are in a room trying to ignore Knghtbrd <Kysh> netgod: Knghtbrd is hard to ignore. % <woot> Man, i wish knghtbrd were here to grab that for his sig list. [...several hours later...] <Knghtbrd> woot don't know me vewy well, do he? <Knghtbrd> muahahahaha % C'mere, come smell the door. -- Tracey Luke % * Knghtbrd pelts wichert with NERF darts * wichert notes there are no ICBM nerfs yet and ignores kngtbrd <Knghtbrd> wichert - just wait, after seeing the NERF gatling guns, ICBMs are not far off (just pump the damned thing for an hour or two is all...) % Operating Systems Installed: * Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 4 CD Set ($20 from www.chguy.net; price includes taxes, shipping, and a $3 donation to FSF). 2 CDs are binaries, 2 CDs complete source code; * Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade Version ($136 through Megadepot.com, price does not include taxes/shipping). Surprisingly, no source code is included.

-- Bill Stilwell, http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8794.html % Steal this tagline. I did. % <bfextu> oh noooo, Knghtbrd's got a gun :) <doogie> ^^insert music^^ <Knghtbrd> bfextu - o/~ everybody is on the run o/~ <bfextu> o/~ run away, ruuuuun away from the pay-ay-ain o/~ %