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Greg Lehey 11b8cdf76c 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.
2003-03-15 02:10:53 +00:00
Tony Finch 587d9e3727 At the risk of serious physical abuse from markm, add another regex joke,
but s/regex/regular expression/g for terminological consistency.
2003-03-10 19:58:37 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral 8f01b038f7 We were low on regex jokes. Now we are *really* low on them. 2003-03-10 13:47:43 +00:00
Garrett Wollman 17d21c5710 Fix style of recent additions and sort. 2003-02-26 04:41:58 +00:00
Mike Barcroft f8b259a69a Add a great quote from Linus Torvalds about BDE. 2003-02-26 03:42:10 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral e426ee5d51 EMACS joke (no, not EMACS itself). 2003-02-24 18:04:20 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt 5a99c48ef3 Fix a grammar bogon.
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after:	4.8 is out the door.
2003-02-24 17:52:02 +00:00
Garrett Wollman 20aef63915 Add a quote from Bob Schieffer's recent book about freedom of the press. 2003-02-23 06:14:04 +00:00
Ceri Davies a92acc1aed "Happiness" is a noun.
PR:		misc/47345
Submitted by:	Ben Rosengart <ben@narcissus.net>
2003-02-18 20:49:12 +00:00
Tony Finch 59da8bd213 Add Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming. 2003-02-18 20:34:13 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt 25ef827219 Correct typos.
Submitted by:	Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu>
X-MFC after:	4.8 is out the door
2003-02-16 18:38:12 +00:00
Robert Drehmel 571c3db70d Remove the suggestion to try `hangman', because it does not exist
in the base system anymore.
2003-02-15 09:11:25 +00:00
Wes Peters 24860c5a80 Add Warner Losh quote.
Submitted by:	Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
2003-02-11 21:38:02 +00:00
Mike Barcroft 961ce4ff77 Immortalize a Robert Watson quote. 2003-02-10 17:34:32 +00:00
Tony Finch 77e48fe336 Add an explanation of why indirection is good. Remove an indirection
filk that also appears in fortunes2.
2003-01-23 19:23:52 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt d447a23756 s/Kank/Kang/ (the klingon)
PR:	misc/45012
Submitted by:	Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org>
2003-01-04 17:08:23 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt 9d5abbddbf Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt d64ada501a Fix typos, mostly s/ an / a / where appropriate and a few s/an/and/
Add FreeBSD Id tag where missing.
2002-12-30 21:18:15 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt a17eb04b82 Fix a typo. Add FreeBSD ID in a %% comment.
MFC after:	3 days
2002-11-17 09:53:11 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch 398fba8499 set watch in tcsh requires an equal sign after the variable name.
MFC after:	1 day
2002-11-16 13:24:44 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral c2c821be56 Add gerrold.limerick to the building process. 2002-11-10 23:41:01 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral e8fa871053 Finished at last. 2002-11-10 23:37:25 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral 40276eb1ea Filling this file at last (now check when I first committed it and see how
long certain people take to return books...).

Still more to go.
2002-11-09 22:22:52 +00:00
Tony Finch 34faf20fae The future's bright: the future's Ballard... 2002-10-30 01:00:48 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp 6baff12cf5 Add a fortune for people who have read their classics. 2002-10-29 10:16:06 +00:00
Tom Hukins 7031dac23d Minor grammatical correction 2002-10-20 13:41:44 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille 7d23144bd5 Fix the path to the make.conf example file.
PR:		docs/44278
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
2002-10-19 21:34:50 +00:00
Tony Finch 078b5daef7 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.
2002-10-19 04:49:10 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt 334a0d61e1 Correct the description of what fortunes get installed (by default, also the
offensive ones). Make it clear that datfiles/Makefile needs to be edited in
case someone wants it otherwise.

PR:		misc/36153
Submitted by:	Nick Jennings <nick@namodn.com>
X-MFC after:	4.7 is out the door.
2002-09-24 19:00:52 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt 6563eb85ee s/seems to thing/seems to think
X-MFC after:	4.7 is out the door
2002-09-21 16:13:20 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum dd549a74d0 Fix spelling of Bismarck's name and remove duplicate
Bertrand Russell quotations.
2002-09-11 11:21:36 +00:00
Juli Mallett d946bf7892 Add a tip about using sed(1)'s FreeBSD-specific -i option.
MFC after:	42 days
2002-09-04 23:28:35 +00:00
David Malone a5fe067b05 Spell Ken Olsen's name the same way everywhere.
PR:		7434
2002-08-31 23:15:41 +00:00
Tony Finch a2c4d39d54 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.
2002-08-09 20:37:01 +00:00
Tony Finch 37609309c2 Re-sort. 2002-08-09 19:54:11 +00:00
Tony Finch 6ad860e1cf Remove spurious quotes. 2002-08-09 19:31:27 +00:00
Tony Finch 868052707a Correctly sort previous addition. 2002-08-09 19:30:20 +00:00
Tony Finch 7ce9cc80b4 Some more advice from Dijkstra. 2002-08-09 19:08:02 +00:00
Tony Finch e3b282d990 Fix a couple of typos in a Dijkstra quote. 2002-08-09 19:00:10 +00:00
David Malone f895acf90f Fix a typo.
PR:		40539
Submitted by:	Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
2002-07-14 22:50:12 +00:00
David Malone ffaa6f7c38 Fix a typo.
PR:		40523
Submitted by:	Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>
2002-07-14 15:28:01 +00:00
Peter Wemm 744c5368b2 Fix whitespace botch in previous commit. 2002-07-09 06:47:29 +00:00
Peter Wemm 518b7839f2 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?
2002-07-09 02:56:10 +00:00
Mark Peek a5499ad829 Paraphrase a quote to remove year specific references.
PR:		40291
Submitted by:	Pierre-Paul Lavoie <ppl@nbnet.nb.ca>
2002-07-07 16:13:48 +00:00
Garrett Wollman 7453f3df01 Add used include of <stdlib.h>, copying style bugs from adjacent lines. 2002-05-30 21:28:58 +00:00
Doug Barton 99bb09292c Correctly attribute a Douglas Adams quote, and remove a duplicate of
the same quote.
2002-05-15 04:35:27 +00:00
Matthew Hunt bff11a8c74 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.
2002-05-01 06:20:57 +00:00
Doug Barton ab4b9024b8 More ispell fun 2002-04-30 10:13:42 +00:00
Doug Barton 9e70deb400 Fix a few more of my typos, a few others I noticed, and some ispell help. 2002-04-30 08:08:31 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn c944cdca84 Correct typo (is -> us). 2002-04-30 07:36:44 +00:00