From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 07:22:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F7F16A404 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:22:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6608113C457 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:22:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (wfwnet@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l337MGXq045045; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:22:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l337MGDN045044; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:22:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200704030722.l337MGDN045044@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kdk@daleco.biz In-Reply-To: <461130D7.8030500@daleco.biz> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:22:22 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Terry Lamber's "Mr. Bullet Mr. Foot" quote... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kdk@daleco.biz List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:22:27 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > I find it hilarious, but can't find much corroborative evidence. > Thomas Sparrevohn uses something very much like this in his .sig: > > "It is not Unix's job to keep you from shooting yourself in the > foot. If you should choose to do so, it is Unix's job to deliver > Mr. Bullet to Mr. Foot in the most efficient way it knows." > --- Terry Lambert > > A reasonable amount of googling didn't produce a source file for > said quote, though, only archived e-mails of Thomas's. > > Anyone know anything about it? Context? When, where, got a URI? I have Terry's quote in my signature collection for nearly nine years, but slightly different. I don't know if your above version is misquoted, or if Terry wrote that one in a different posting. Anyway, this is what Terry wrote on September 15th 1998 in the freebsd-hackers mailing list: | "If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the | trigger, it's UNIX's job to ensure reliable | delivery of the bullet to where you aimed the | gun (in this case, Mr. Foot)." Don't know about your googling skills ;-) but a very quick search on http://freebsd.rambler.ru (the best FreeBSD list search engine, IMHO) turns it up as the first hit: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-hackers_1998/msg11208.html > P.S. Hope I spelled "Sparrevohn" correctly. Seamonkey thinks > it should be spelled "Irrevocable".... :-D Don't use spell checkers. Most of the time they break the spelling instead of fixing it. Well, at least that has been my experience. Personally I prefer to spend half a minute reading again through what I wrote before sending it. Much better than a spell checker. Most of my mistakes are grammar-related, word order or similar, and those aren't found by a spell checker anyway. :-) (YMMV, of course.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.pl count=1 $ file test.pl test.pl: perl script text executable