Add the /etc/ version of our conf to git

[dak.git] / docs / README.quotes

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| <mdz_> SirDibos: that sentence sounds like it wants to be a bug report when it grows up
 
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| From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
| Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1 Ext3 Ooops. Reboot needed.
| To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
| Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
| Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:27:20 -0700
| 
| Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> wrote:
| >
| > "File alteration monitor", from Debian.
| 
| OK.
| 
| > $ apt-cache show fam
| 
| I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided debian. 
| Is there a tarball anywhere?

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| From: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
| 
|      In my experience, James has been very responsive, albeit not
| verbose, to reasonable questions/requests that don't start out saying
| "James is a bum - throw him out".

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| <eigood> Kamion: are you too busy to look at my generic
|          include/exclude stuff for the bts yet?
| <Kamion> eigood: expect me to be busy for about the next week at this
|          rate
| <eigood> my %field_match = (
| <eigood>     'subject' => \&contains_field_match,
| <eigood>     'severity' => \&exact_field_match,
| <eigood> that's how it works, basically
| <eigood> I'm a big fan of callbacks
| [...]
| <eigood> Kamion: how do you feel about having
|          per-bug/per-package/per-source notes support in the bts?
| <Kamion> eigood: as I said five minutes ago, I really don't have time
|          to think about it right now, sorry
| <Kamion> here, maybe it would be clearer if I /part
| <-- Kamion (~cjwatson@host81-129-36-235.in-addr.btopenworld.com) has left #debian-devel (too busy. no, really.)
| <eigood> no need to be hostile
| <Joy> eigood: he told you he's too busy and you kept bugging him. take
|       a hint :)

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<mstone> bwahahaha. Dear "security@debian.org" Thank you for your
         email about "[SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux
         kernel memory" ...I need to filter out spam... To send email to
         vhs@flexdesign.com please put "ducks" anywhere on your subject
         line. ...Thanks, Bob...
<mstone> I'll be sure to do that...

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<drow> Hmm, that was a nice short bug report.
<drow> to submit@: "strdup(NULL) segfaults" to -done@: "Yes, go away"
[...]
<Kamion> how did he pass T&S? sheer bloody-mindedness?
[...]
<drow> Good attention to detail?
<drow> Masking of psychopathic tendencies?
* drow shrugs

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<DanielS> the people love me
<Joy> like pneumonia

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test.c:5: `long long long' is too long for GCC

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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91696&cid=7890274

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<Joy> argh.
<Joy> i accidentally banned all mails to the bts that had 'ossi' in them
<Joy> "possible" etc

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<http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/12/24/>

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
3:34 pm         
Dear PC World,

1) The most common chipset used in Pentium-II machines is the Intel 440BX. It is also relatively common in slower P-IIIs, and is approximately identical to the 440MX (a one-chip version aimed at laptops).

2) The 440BX has the interesting feature of only being able to address up to 128MBit density RAM. This is a relatively widely known issue.

3) Simple maths suggests that if you have a 128MB DIMM with 4 chips on it, they are likely to be 256MBit parts.

4) Marking said DIMMs as being suitable for Pentium-IIs is therefore really indescribably stupid, you wankwits. Please fuck off and die in a great big chemical fire before I get back there to beat you.

Love,

Matthew.

PS,

Die. No, really. 

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<http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/12/>

Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
2:43 am         
It's true that you learn something new every day. Yesterday I discovered that playdough is electrically conductive. I also discovered that RAM becomes unhappy if all of its pins are joined together with electrically conductive material.

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<http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/03/>

Monday, November 3rd, 2003
3:13 pm         
Hint to people attempting to sell things online:

DON'T PUT http://172.16.100.107/ IN YOUR URLS, YOU INCOMPETENT FUCKMONKEYS 

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| priviledged positions? What privilege? The honour of working harder
| than most people for absolutely no recognition?

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> in <87lln8aqfm.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>

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<elmo_h> you could just r00t klecker through [...] and do it yourself
<mdz> heh
<mdz> I think there's a bit in the DMUP about that

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<Yoe> well, thing is, he doesn't seem to understand you usually don't
      have the time to give everyone status updates when a fly moves a
      leg

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In Soviet Russia...

The cops arrest YOU for not showing papers. Wait, I didn't have to
reverse it this time, what's going on?

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=97501&cid=8334726

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<infinity> <shrug>... Messaging IRCops isn't the end of the world,
           unless its "/msg ircop I fucked your wife."

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| From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
| Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compile kernel with GCC-3.5 and without regparm
| To: "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net>
| Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
| Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:59:28 -0800
| X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu)
| 
| "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net> wrote:
| >
| > I tried to build the kernel with my CVS GCC-3.5 compiler today, and had
| > all sorts of failures about prototypes not matching.
| 
| -mm is where the gcc-3.5 action is.  There seems to be a bit of an arms
| race going on wherein the gcc developers are trying to break the kernel
| build faster than I and others can fix it.

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(Note that the above is a gross oversimplification, and ignores issues
including but not necessarily limited to subarchitectures, and quality
of hardware coverage within certian architectures. It contains forward
looking statements, and may cause cancer in lab animals.)

Joey Hess in <20040317065216.GA29816@kitenet.net>

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<jdub> now there's a thought
<jdub> DD trading cards
<mdz> official joeyh action figure, with rapid-fire upload action
<jdub> lamont with pump-action NMU flame-thrower!

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<aj> "attempt to de-scare ... may cause cancer"
* aj thinks elmo needs to work on his de-scaring

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<mdz> the Thom Remote Management Unit
<mdz> TRMU
<thom> i cost 3 times the amount an IBM remote management card would. per use.
<jdub> last time *i* checked, you were free
<jdub> oh, different service
<jdub> never mind

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From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
Subject: Re: MS/CW-style inline assembly for GCC
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:35:40 -0700

Can you be more specific about the difficulties? The CW version didn't
seem that hard (unless Apple mgmt is reading this, in which case it was
fiendishly difficult :-) ), but I did impose some restrictions in edge
[...]

Stan

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buildd@caballero:~/logs$ du -sh kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.5_2.6.5-2_20040506-1033 
54G     kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.5_2.6.5-2_20040506-1033

Next week on "When Good Buildds Go Bad"[...]

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<aj>  153 NP+ 11 James Troup     (7.9K) you know you want it.  err.
* aj looks disturbed as he trolls through his saved mail

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: 2.6.6-mm5
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 01:36:36 -0700
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

[...]

  Although this feature has been around for a while it is new code, and the
  usual cautions apply.  If it munches all your files please tell Jens and
  he'll type them in again for you.

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From: Randall Donald <ftpmaster@debian.org>
Subject: foo_3.4-1_i386.changes REJECTED
To: John Doe <jdoe@debian.org>
Cc: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:17:48 -0400

Hi,

 Description: something to put here
   Maybe I need a long description here!
 
Yes, you do!

--
Randall Donald
 
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<Keybuk> I don't test, I upload to unstable and a milllllion users test it for me :)

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This is based on an actual radio conversation between a U.S. Navy
aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, and Canadian authorities off
the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. The radio conversation was
released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10/10/95 authorized by
the Freedom of Information Act.

Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid
           collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to
           avoid a collision.

Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to
           the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert
           YOUR course.

Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND
           LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE
           ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND
           NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR
           COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE
           DEGREES NORTH--OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO
           ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

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<neuro> i didn't slam today's dinstall too badly, did I?
<elmo>   File "/org/ftp.debian.org/dak/process_accepted.py", line 608, in main
<elmo>     sys.stderr.write("Installed %d package %s, %s.\n" % (install_count, sets, utils.size_type(int(install_bytes))));
<elmo> OverflowError: float too large to convert

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"The Hurd's design is so secure that it makes firewalls immoral IMHO." -- Jeroen Dekkers

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<helix> I bought some foam soap for kids the other day and only
        realized it had an elmo picture on it when I got home
<helix> now I can't use it because I feel perverted

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<helix> hm hilarity did not ensue
<helix> with my laundry
<helix> I washed it with bubble bath :|
<neuro> *snork*
<helix> well, nothing bad happened; but my clothes also don't smell like 
        cinnamon buns, like I'd hoped

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<bdale> I thought Jeroen's comment was interesting...
<aj> What was that?
<bdale> Well I didn't let him speak....

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<helix> elmo: I can't believe people pay you to fix computers

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