Alan E. Davis: Some files at llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming are stamped on 10 January 1998.  As I write, nowhere on Earth is it now 10 January. Craig Sanders: That just proves how advanced debian is, doesn't it :-)\n-- debian-devel
Computers are like air conditioners.  Both stop working, if you open windows.\n-- Adam Heath
I am NOT a kludge!  I am a computer!\n-- tts
<Joey> gorgo: *lol* <gorgo> joey: what's so funny? :) <Culus> shh, joey is losing all sanity from lack of sleep <Culus> 'yes joey, very funny' <Culus> Humor him :>\n-- Seen on #Debian
* SynrG notes that the number of configuration questions to answer in sendmail\nis NON-TRIVIAL\n-- Seen on #Debian
My apologies if I sound angry.  I feel like I'm talking to a void.\n-- Avery Pennarun
RIP is irrelevant.  Spoofing is futile.  Your routes will be aggregated.\n-- Alex Yuriev
After 14 non-maintainer releases, I'm the S-Lang non-maintainer.\n-- Ray Dassen
BREAKFAST.COM Halted... Cereal Port Not Responding.
* JHM wonders what Joey did to earn "I'd just like to say, for the record,\nthat Joey rules."\n-- Seen on #Debian
Steal my cash, car and TV - but leave the computer!\n-- Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
The only really good reason I can think to not release specs is embarrassment on just how crappy some hardware out there is, or just how buggy it is.\n-- Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz>
> Alan Cox wrote|[..] No I didnt.  Someone else wrote that.  Please keep attributions straight.\n-- From linux-kernel
Do people like check the Debian website every 5 minutes to check it hasn't morphed into another one? Not that I'm one to talk, but some people seriously need to get a life\n-- james on #Debian
... Linux und seine Programme sind damit so etwas wie ein real existierender Sozialismus der besseren Art ...\n-- Christian Seel in der Berliner Morgenpost v. 9.3.1997
* 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\n-- Seen on #Debian
* Joey should not write changelog entries at 5:30am <Joey>    * DFSC Free cgi library <Joey> What's that? DFSC? <jim> Debian Free Software mroooooCows\n-- Seen on #Debian
<posix> this guy _is_ crazy <stargazer> posix: from the looks of Enlightenment he's on LSD <posix> LSD is nothing compared to what this guy's on..\n-- Seen on #Unix
On Netscape GPLing their browser: ``How can you trust a browser that ANYONE can hack? For the secure choice, choose Microsoft.''\n-- <oryx@pobox.com> in a comment on slashdot.org
Turn right here. No! NO! The OTHER right!
#define FALSE   0               /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE    1               /* and this is the Light */\n-- mailto.c
<Stealth> How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? <Joey> Use a rope?\n-- Seen on #Debian
Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times.\n-- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT
Does biff in bo work coz it biffin doesn't beep an if biff in bo is broke then biff in bo I will delete I've tried biff in bo with 'y' I've tried biff in bo with '-y' no biffin output does it show so poor wee biff is gonna go.\n-- John Spence <jspence@lynx.net.au> on debian-user
Real Men don't make backups.  They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it.\n-- Linus Torvalds
One tree to rule them all, One tree to find them, One tree to bring them all, and to itself bind them.\n-- Gavin Koch <gavin@cygnus.com>
As I currently don't have a floppy drive in my computer, I'd like to make an `emergency cdrom' ;)\n-- Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org>
Alan Cox wrote|>> On any procmail new enough not to be full of security holes you set >Brain on, Imeant majordomo of course 8) You got me worried there for a brief (very brief) moment :-).\n-- Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless)
<grin> seen jhm <dpkg> jhm is Sarek, and jhm is on the channel right now! * JHM wonders why dpkg remembers that particular nick. <grin> dpkg: Sarek? ermm, sure, and I am Khan\n-- Seen on #Debian
When you have 200 programmers trying to write code for one product, like Win95 or NT, what you get is a multipule personality program.  By definition, the real problem is that these programs are psychotic by nature and make people crazy when they use them.\n-- Joan Brewer on alt.destroy.microsoft
<igor> Hah! we have 2 Johnie Ingrams in the channel :) <igor> Hey all btw :)
I just uploaded xtoolplaces-1.6. It fixes all bugs but one: It still coredumps instead of doing something useful.  The upstream author's e-mail address bounces, Redhat doesn't provide it and I never used it.\n-- Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
<Culus> aIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 <Culus> MY LIGHT JUST DIED <Culus> I AM SO SAD <Culus> I'm blind! I'm blind! <dark> Light? <dark> Turn all your xterms to black-on-white :)  Plenty of light that way.\n-- Seen on #Debian
/*\n*     Please skip to the bottom of this file if you ate lunch recently\n*                             -- Alan\n*/\n-- from Linux kernel pre-2.1.91-1
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 64 #error "Only stud muffins allowed, schmuck." #endif\n-- linux/arch/sparc64/quad.c
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32 #error "Here's a nickel kid.  Go buy yourself a real computer." #endif\n-- linux/arch/sparc64/double.h
* Linux Viruscan.....\nWindows 95 found.  Remove it? (Y/y)\n-- Unknown source
<sel> need help: my first packet to my provider gets lost :-( <netgod> sel:  dont send the first one, start with #2 * netgod is kidding
These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer\n-- From Micro$oft
<james> abuse me.  I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes\n-- Seen on #Debian
Ooh, mommy, mommy, what I have now doesn't work in this extremely unlikely circumstance, so I'll just throw it away and write something completely new.\n-- Linus Torvalds
#ifdef __SMP__ #error "Me no hablo Alpha SMP" #else #define irq_enter(cpu, irq)     (++local_irq_count[cpu]) #define irq_exit(cpu, irq)      (--local_irq_count[cpu]) #endif\n-- from kernel 2.1.90, arch/alpha/kernel/irc.c
Linus Torvalds|> This is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 Winfried Truemper: > Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit > working today and rise on easter?
I never thought that I'd see the day where Netscape is free software and X11 is proprietary.  We live in interesting times.\n-- Matt Kimball <mkimball@xmission.com>
Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots.\n-- Linus Torvalds
/*\n* Buddy system. Hairy. You really aren't expected to understand this\n*\n*/\n-- From /usr/src/linux/mm/page_alloc.cA
baz bat bamus batis bant.\n-- James Troup
Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os! Worked for me all the times.\n-- Linus Torvalds
I've seen people with new children before, they go from ultra happy to looking like something out of a zombie film in about a week.\n-- Alan Cox about Linus after his 2nd daughter
I expect that noone has objections.  However, if I'd only add these entries to the list because `I think it's the right thing to do', I'd get a lot of flames afterwards :)\n-- Christian Schwarz
Various documentation updates and bugfixes (the best way to know that a stable kernel is approaching is to notice that somebody starts to spellcheck the kernel - it has so far never failed)\n-- Linus Torvalds in the annoucement for pre-2.1.99-3
You will not censor me through bug terrorism.\n-- James Troup
<doogie> Thinking is dangerous.  It leads to ideas.\n-- Seen on #Debian
<james> Are we going to make an emacs out of apt?\nAPT - Debian in a program.  It even does your laundry\n-- Seen on #Debian
<joost> Do you mean to say that I can read mail with vi too? ;-) <Joey> Didn't you know that? <Joey> :r /var/spool/mail/jk\n-- debian-mentors
Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>|After all, the gzip package is called `gzip', not `libz-bin'... James Troup <troup@debian.org>: Uh, probably because the gzip binary doesn't come from the non-existent libz package or the existent zlib package.\n-- debian-bugs-dist
Debian is like Suse with yast turned off, just better. :)\n-- Goswin Brederlow
Arnold's Laws of Documentation|(1) If it should exist, it doesn't.\n(2) If it does exist, it's out of date.\n(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
The truth is not free.  It's that simple.  If you change the truth, it is no longer true - so the truth is not free!\n-- Jules Bean about freeness of documentation
* JHM wonders what Joey did to earn "I'd just like to say, for the record,\nthat Joey rules."\n-- Seen on #Debian
The problem here (as someon else stated) is that when multiple dists use the same package format it only gives a "false sense of compatibility".\n-- Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com>
*** Rince is wagner@schizo.DAINet.de (We have Joey, we have Fun, we have Linux on a Sun)\n-- Seen on #Debian
... Linux und seine Programme sind damit so etwas wie ein real existierender Sozialismus der besseren Art...\n-- Christian Seel in der Berliner Morgenpost v. 9.3.1997
The most effective has probably been Linux/8086 - that was a joke that got out of hand.  So far out of hand in fact its almost approaching usability because other folks thought it worth doing - Alistair Riddoch especially.\n-- Alan Cox
The only other people who might benefit from Linux8086 would be owners of PDP/11's and other roomsized computers from the same era.\n-- Alan Cox
Ha. I say let them try -- even vi+perl couldn't match the power of an editor which is, after all, its own OS.  ;-)\n-- Johnie Ingram on debian-devel, about linking vim with libperl.so
Being overloaded is the sign of a true Debian maintainer.\n-- JHM on #Debian
<alaint> joey--very clever !!! <alaint> joey--no wonder that Debian is a good distrib with coder like you\n-- Seen on #Debian (referring to my RAID article for the LJ)
There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.\n-- Unknown source
Despite the best efforts of a quantum bigfoot drive (yes I know everyone told me they suck, now I know they were right) 2.1.109ac1 is now available\n-- Alan Cox announcing Linux 2.1.109ac1
<dark> Turns out that grep returns error code 1 when there are no matches.\nI KNEW that.  Why did it take me half an hour?\n-- Seen on #Debian
It's simply unbelievable how much energy and creativity people have invested into creating contradictory, bogus and stupid licenses...\n--- Sven Rudolph about licences in debian/non-free.
<Overfiend> partycle: I seriously do need a vacation from this\npackage.  I actually had a DREAM about introducing a\nstupid new bug into xbase-preinst last night.  That's a\nBad Sign.\n-- Seen on #Debian shortly before the release of Debian 2.0
<core> i'm glad Debian finally got into\npolar-deep-freeze-we-arent-shitting-you state finally.\n-- Seen on #Debian shortly before the release of Debian 2.0
<dark> Looks like the channel is back to normal :) <jim> You mean it's not scrolling faster than anyone can read? :)\n-- Seen on #Debian after the release of Debian 2.0
Alex Buell|Or how about a Penguin logo painted in really really trippy colours, and emblazoned with the word LSD. :o) Geert Uytterhoeven: We already had that one, but unfortunately Russell King fixed that nasty palette bug in drivers/video/fbcon.c :-)\n-- linux-kernel
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.\n-- Richard Stallman
Fehlermeldung von StarOffice|Das Dokument wurde fuer den Drucker Generic PostScript Printer formatiert. Der Drucker ist nicht vorhanden.  Soll der Standarddrucker Generic PostScript Printer verwendet werden? Ob Programme schizophren werden koennen?\n-- Oliver Bedford <O.Bedford@uni-koeln.de>
No, that's wrong too.  Now there's a race condition between the rm and the mv.  Hmm, I need more coffee.\n-- Guy Maor on Debian Bug#25228
Perhaps the RBLing (Realtime Black Hole) of msn.com recently, which prevented a large amount of mail going out for about 4 days, has had a positive influence in Redmond.  They did agree to work on their anti-relay capabilities at their POPs to get the RBL lifted.\n-- Bill Campbell on Smail3-users
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.\n-- bugtraq
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)\n-- Nathan E. Norman
Jim>   http://www.novare.net/~eam/kaffe/ Joey>                           ^ Joey> And now we all learn how to write Ean's name and the URL is complete. Jim> Hah!  I noticed that the instead I sent it, and I tried to hit ^g, but\nI was too slow.  :-)\n--- debian-devel
And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX\n-- Alan Cox
<Culus-> I will be known as Ian Black, Ean can be Ian Red, Netgod Ian Blue,\nChe gets Ian Yellow, CQ is Ian Purple and Joey is Ian Indigo\n-- Some #Debian channel
When a float occurs on the same page as the start of a supertabular you can expect unexpected results.\n-- Documentation of supertabular.sty
From: Ean Schuessler <ean@novare.net> The unrecognized minister of propaganda, E\n-- Debian, joking
* liw prefers not to have Linus run Debian, because then /me would\nhave to run Red Hat, just to keep the power balance :)\n-- #Debian
<\\swing> and if we're playing old distributions... whatever happened to Yggdrasil? :) <joost> \\swing: everybody who tried to pronounce it got their tongue in a knot and choked\n-- #Debian
I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.\n-- Linus Torvalds
> Tut mir Leid, Jost, aber Du bist ein unertraeglicher Troll. Was soll das? Du *beleidigst* die Trolle!\n-- de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
* dpkg ponders: 'C++' should have been called 'D'\n-- #Debian
<rm_-rf_> The real value of KDE is that they inspired and push the\ndevelopment of GNOME :-)\n-- #Debian
* 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.\n-- #Debian, celebrating the 5th anniversary
<stu> Stupid nick highlighting <stu> Whenever someone starts with "stupid" it highlights the nick.  Hmm.\n-- #Debian
<netgod> And once Diziet/CQ make the formal announcment that LSA\nsucks, we can even reduce the Crisis Level rating and move\non to linuxfoundation.org.\n-- #Debian
* LG loves czech girls. <vincent> LG: do they have additional interesting "features" other girls don't have? ;)\n-- #Debian
The first is to ensure your partner understands that nature has root privileges - nature doesn't have to make sense.\n-- Telsa Gwynne
As to house maintenance, does it involve problem solfing?  If so, your hacker can safely be left to deall with the panning (for the musement value, if nothering ese).\n-- Telsa Gwynne
Remember: While root can do most everything, there are certain privileges that only a partner can grant.\n-- Telsa Gwynne
<Skyhook> Where is 'bavaria' proper?  I thought it was austria.\n-- Seen on #Linux
Day X+4 months: Microsoft ships NT 5.0 for Intel.with a big media\nevent on TV. IBM begins to ship Debian 4.6 as the\nstandard OS on all machines from mainframe to PC\nand announces the move on Slashdot.\n-- Christoph Lameter
How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunk could check chunks?\n-- Alan Cox
Q: How does a Unix guru have sex?|A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep\n-- unknown source
Someone on IRC was very sad about the uptime of his machine wrapping from 497 days to 0.\n-- linux-kernel
<doogie> netgod:  8:42pm is not late. <netgod> doogie: its 2:42am in Joeyland\n-- #Debian
We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.\n-- Dennis Ritchie
Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's, please? I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.\n-- Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
> <magical +3 sigh of hyperbole deflection> The branden dodges your magical sigh. The branden attacks you with a slew of words! The branden misses!\n-- Henning Makholm in <yahsmr7dk9k.fsf@pc-043.diku.dk>
I don't think 'It's better than hurling yourself into a meat grinder' is a good rationale for doing something.\n-- Andrew Suffield in <20030905221055.GA22354@doc.ic.ac.uk> on debian-devel
< Overfiend> whew. < Overfiend> I really need to get some sleep. < Overfiend> but it sure was fun talking guitars, politics, and lesbians.
