Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:22:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kdk@daleco.biz Subject: Re: Terry Lamber's "Mr. Bullet Mr. Foot" quote... Message-ID: <200704030722.l337MGDN045044@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <461130D7.8030500@daleco.biz>
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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
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