From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 16: 4:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (usr.srcsys.org [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8407537B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 31146 invoked by uid 1000); 29 May 2001 23:00:54 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:00:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph A. Mallett" X-X-Sender: To: John Baldwin Cc: , Subject: Re: New fortune entry? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I remeber seeing him say that, and instantly adding it to my fortune file :) Mind you, my input is next to nil, but nevertheless, I think it's a fitting addition :) -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ http://srcsys.org ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ FreeBSD, NetBSD, & xMach User; (Obj)C(++) Coder ] [ http://xMach.org ] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d-- s+:++ a--- C+++ UB++++ P+++ L- E---- W++ N+ o-- K- w++ O M+ V PS+ PE- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- X+ R tv- b++ DI+ D--- G e* h! r% z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > New fortune entry? > > -----FW: <20010525205530N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>----- > > The answer is that libdialog, the library on which sysinstall depends > for these menus, is genuinely evil. It is the unloved, satanic > bastard child of multiple parents and torturing users like yourself > constitutes the only joy in life it has left. Its source files are > all chmod'd 0666 and dire README files warn against trespass by > neophyte programmers. It is the 7th gate of Hell. It makes the baby > Jesus cry. Were libdialog given anthropomorphic representation, it > would be promptly burnt at the stake and its ashes scattered in the > desert, to be then doused with holy water from altitude by > fire-fighting aircraft. > > -- Jordan K. Hubbard on the evils of libdialog > > --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message