Fortune Quote #1186

Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times.
-- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT

Fortune Quote #1185

The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which failed
to start because of the following error: The operation completed
successfully. -- Windows NT Server v3.51

Fortune Quote #1184

"We don't do a new version to fix bugs." - Bill Gates "The new version -
it's not there to fix bugs." - Bill Gates -- Retranslated from Focus
43/1995, pp. 206-212

Fortune Quote #1183

"If a train station is where a train stops, what is a workstation?"

Fortune Quote #1182

Winnuke in one line? No problem: perl -MIO::Socket
-e 'IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"bad.dude.com:139")->send("bye",MSG_OOB)'
-- Randal Schwartz

Fortune Quote #1181

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter _what_ the
circumstances. -- Linus Torvalds

Fortune Quote #1180

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare
at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for
free*'. -- Linus Torvalds

Fortune Quote #1179

> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Surely, Linus is talking about the kind of idiocy that others aspire
to :-). -- Bruce Perens in response to Linus Torvalds

Fortune Quote #1178

> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. We
need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals
then. -- Craig Schlenter in response to Linus Torvalds

Fortune Quote #1177

After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a
new folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the
writer or speaker of intuitive likes". -- Bruce Ediger on the
intuitiveness of a Mac interface

Fortune Quote #1176

I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10
minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which
isn't. -- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center

Fortune Quote #1175

[In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I
thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less
abusive.') -- Matt Welsh

Fortune Quote #1174

...you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar. Believe me. I
speak from experience. -- Matt Welsh

Fortune Quote #1173

...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the
Ugly). -- Matt Welsh

Fortune Quote #1172

I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. -- Vance Petree,
Virginia Power

Fortune Quote #1171

On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK';
everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS. --
Tarl Neustaedter

Fortune Quote #1170

I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first
programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then I
suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts') -- Olaf Kirch

Fortune Quote #1169

I develop for Linux for a living, I used to develop for DOS. Going from
DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. -- Lawrence Foard

Fortune Quote #1168

How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only
coded it. -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds

Fortune Quote #1167

Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you
have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look
into it. -- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes

Fortune Quote #1166

There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those
who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two. --
From a post-1.1.54 kernel update message on c.o.l.a

Fortune Quote #1165

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? --
Felix von Leitner

Fortune Quote #1164

lp1 on fire -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages

Fortune Quote #1163

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall. -- Confucius

Fortune Quote #1162

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever. --Gandhi

Fortune Quote #1161

It doesn't matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.
-- Joseph Stalin

Fortune Quote #1160

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here
and there. -- Richard Feynman

Fortune Quote #1159

J.R.: "I thought that after Math 1 epsilon-delta proofs went away."
Leah: "They don't go away, they just get arbitrarily small."

Fortune Quote #1158

>> 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 on debian-policy

Fortune Quote #1157

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

Fortune Quote #1156

Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to
me. -- Linus Torvalds