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New quotes for Mon Aug 26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Aug 26 01:32:25 1991
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 01:31:58 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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alchen (Alice Chen):
Look at the .plan under my account alchen@fenchurch.mit.edu
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celine (Rob F):
Bugs section of the day (SunOS 4.1.1):
man tunefs:
Dot
Dot
Dot
BUGS
This program should work on mounted and active file systems.
Because the super-block is not kept in the buffer cache, the
program will only take effect if it is run on dismounted
file systems; if run on the root file system, the system
must be rebooted.
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
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the actual, non-processed man page shows up as (in SunOS 4.1.1):
.SH BUGS
This program should work on mounted and active file systems.
Because the super-block is not kept in the buffer cache,
the program will only take effect if it
is run on dismounted file systems;
if run on the root file system, the system must be rebooted.
.\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.
.sp
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
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Signals that never quite caught on...
SIG_TITANIC Floating point exception
New commands for UNIX...
woman (1) - Does exactly the same as the man command but in half
the time and without all the fuss.
ssh (1) - Turn workstation fan off
"Watch?? I'm gonna pray, man! Know any good religions?" -- Zaphod Beeblebrox
> From: jdarcy@encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy)
> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
> Subject: Re: Aptly named programs.
> Message-ID: <jdarcy.667630212@zelig>
> Date: 27 Feb 91 04:50:12 GMT
>
> I used to work at a company producing a DECnet implementation that went by
> the name of CommUnity. One of the things I did as a developer was write a
> couple of stress test programs, the most advanced of which was called
>
> CommUnity UNIX Random Stress Tool (CURST)
>
> This program *was* truly cursed. I got many requests to make it behave
> better, and my usual response was "if it were well-behaved it wouldn't
> be much of a stress tool". As it was, CURST uncovered several problems
> that otherwise might have gone unnoticed until a customer brought them
> to our attention.
"I can levitate birds, but no one seems to notice..."
"I have things to do and news to read"
"Rmgroup any ancient mariners today, Chip?"
"Sometimes it's like a party you go to where
there are no lights and everyone is doing
animal impressions." -Phillip Evans on usenet
"Eric Olson doesn't exist." -Patricio O. Tuama, rissa@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
"The chance of mit-eddie relaying something before that hyperactive IBM RT
with a thyroid condition gets a hold of it is pretty slim."
Open mouth. Insert foot. Echo internationally.
"Perl is the BASIC of UNIX." -- Tom Christiansen
OS-9: Seven generations beyond OS/2!!
Skate UNIX or bleed, boyo...
--- J. Eric Townsend
"Unix is not a "A-ha" experience, it is more of a "holy-shit" experience."
- Colin McFadyen in alt.folklore.computers
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
"I have a very interesting pencil holder.
It's an exact replica of a microwave oven." --mac7
"THE PEOPLE OF TODAY WILL ONLY KNOW THAT WE DID IT NOT WHY WE DID IT. I CAN
ONLY SAY THAT WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO WITH WHAT WE HAD TO DO IT WITH. AND IF
THE PEOPLE AND HISTORIANS CANNOT UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN ALL KISS MY ASS"
William Johnstone
1991
> From: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)
> Newsgroups: comp.archives
> Subject: [list.com-priv] Re: pointless bickering
> Message-ID: <1991Mar13.075656.14722@ox.com>
> Date: 13 Mar 91 07:56:56 GMT
>
> People looking at mail-based archive servers and mailing list
> maintainers (aka LISTSERV code) should examine the code in
> elroy.cs.iastate.edu:/pub/servers/ [129.186.3.15]
> in it are five or six different implementations.
>
> I also have a very choice rant by a prominent member of the
> internet community which begins
>
> Mail based archive servers are a disease which should be stamped out
> wherever they are found.
>
> available upon request.
``Read my MIPS -- no new VAXes!!'' -- George Bush after sniffing freon
"Trinitrotoluene is an educational toy."
``Quote of the Week:
"Where are your troops and can I go count them ?"
- Iraqi Reporter during Pentagon
Briefing skit, SNL, 2/9/91''
Be an optimist -- at least until they start bringing animals
in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
-- Tom Emerson
If the Space Shuttle was the answer, what was the question?
-- Henry Spencer?
For every complex question there is a simple answer, and it is wrong.
-- H.L. Mencken
"Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
course, living in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann
"It is unworthy of great men to lose hours
like slaves in the labor of calculation."
-- Pascal
"Honk, if you have seen Elvis or Saddam Hussein's Air Force" bumper sticker
"If you keep your expectations tiny, you won't go through life
sounding so whiny."
- Matt Groening
> From: Patrick Humphrey <HUMPHRY@RICEVM1.BITNET>
> Newsgroups: misc.sheep
> Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote
> Message-ID: <1803HUMPHRY@RICEVM1>
> Date: Wednesday, 13 Feb 1991 17:57:59 CST
> Organization: Rice University - ICSA
>
> Ewe really wooln't say *that*, wool you? (he said sheepishly)
> -------
> Patrick L. Humphrey (Bitnet: humphry@ricevm1)
> (Internet: patrickh@rice.edu *or* plh@owlnet.rice.edu)
> Rice University ONCS +1 713 527 4989 Home: +1 713 776 1541
> "The net's in session, now -- here come da .sig..."
"It is my supposition that the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine,
It is queerer than we CAN imagine." - J.B.S. Haldane
"If there's nothing wrong with me, perhaps there's something
wrong with the rest of the universe."
-- Dr Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: the Next Generation)
Remember that the only thing the USAF and USN have ever agreed on is that
the Army shouldn't have fixed-wing aircraft. --Mary Shafer
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
If it was said on UseNet, it must be true.
Unix - It's a nice place to live, but you don't want to visit there.
"This sexual assault hysteria has caused me to limit my sexual
activities strictly to off campus." -Sean Ryan, hardcore Alaskan
In the Beginning, there was Nothing. And God said,"Let there be Light!"
And there was STILL nothing. But, you could SEE IT!
Now this religion happens to prevail
Until by that one it is overthrown, -
Because men dare not live with men alone,
But always with another fairy tale.
- Al Maari, about 1040
"There was a time when man would attribute everything he didn't
understand to God. Now, with our heightened understanding of
science, we attribute them to UFO's." -Gary Friedman
So I call them, and my telephone screams, shakes violently and melts.
Connection succeeded.
-- Bill Stewart
|You can create art and beauty on a computer.
|
|Computers can change your life for the better.
|
|Access to computers -- and anything which might teach you something about
|the way the world works -- should be unlimited and total. Always yield
|to the Hands-On Imperative!
|
|All information should be free.
|
|Mistrust authority -- Promote decentralization.
|
|Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as
|degrees, age, race, or position.
|
|Hacker "ethic"
|from Hackers by Steven Levy
|Page 40-45
as mentioned by eugene@nas.nasa.gov
"Never put off until tomorrow, that which can be done the day after tomorrow"
-- C. Titus Brown, anonymous student, brown@max.physics.sunysb.edu
"Cleveland - it's not hell, but a damn good simulation."
Disclaimer: Peons don't speak for bigwigs. -- Machael Ho
"Of course, I am not a lawyer, but I have watched them fight in the street."
There is a fine line between art and insanity. -- Pat Bahn
Remember: You might be a Redneck if your mother keeps a spit cup on the
ironing board.
--- Jeff Foxworthy
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
-Western Union memo, 1877
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"
-- Lord Kelvin
"You drive me insane now.
There, I am insane."
--Dieter, _Sprockets_
"Remember, Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not.
Do not try to imitate his actions."
"My program doesn't work."
"You forgot the semicolon."
"But..."
"Line 376. Check."
"But..."
"Trust me."
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
We're only immortal
for a limited time...
RUSH (off of the *new, not yet released album*)
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
Shakespeare - Henry VI, part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, line 64.
1-900-988-SPELL ... "The power to control your life is your own mind..."
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
Time was all we had until the day we said goodbye...
And now it feels like forever since I held you...
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Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with
and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone
to hold your hand -- these things are "marriage," and sex is but the
icing on the cake. (Lazarus Long)
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Wanna find me?
Work: E10-218 x3-5756 or Home: NW61-234 x5-9523
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Classes start tomorrow/today (26 Aug). whee!
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
The map scale of a hex in TSR's Gamma World is given as "roughly
43.7 kilometers"... This unusual value converts neatly to the userful
amount of about 27.3 miles....
from Murphy's Rules
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