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25th January 2007, 08:42 pm

Yesterday I finally decided to start blogging. The final grain of sense were dropped while my optimization of the Ubuntu Edgy boot up speed by switching off some unnecessary scripts from /etc/init.d/. I were inspecting each script one by one for theirs behavior. And I discovered that the script /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam contains a brutal text (some symbols replaced with *):

# This only does something if I’ve f**ked up before
# Not entirely impossible :(

Really interesting for production distro. Later a did a global grep on a whole system for inclusion of the word f**k. And wow! The reasult is 966 inclusions. Detailed inspection showed that around two/third of them are in dictionarys (/etc/dictionaries-common/words, /usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/, /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/), but the rest one/third is on conscience of the distro scripts (less polluted), development headers and the kernel headers (most polluted). I don’t want to know what results can be if to grep all disrto software sources and kernel sources. But I think it can be interesting “homework” for someone to grep full sources for keywords like: shit, damn, hack, how it works, and so on.

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3 Comments

  1. Franz:

    Hi,
    nice post and thank’s for you comment at my blog!

    PS:
    You can write comments in English too in my blog! :-)

    26 January 2007, 6:13 pm

  2. James:

    Clamav isn’t installed by default on Edgy, is it? While I agree that such language is less then tasteful, I suspect the developers won’t care too much. Sadly.

    What I think would be really interesting is a peek at the Windows source code. ^_^

    3 February 2007, 5:19 am

  3. Matias:

    This one is from giFT.conf file and is asked on first config

    # Controls whether giFT ignores the incoming directory when sharing files. If
    # this is 1 and the incoming directory is within one of the sharing roots all
    # files in and below it will not be shared. This is what you want in all known
    # universes. Should you find yourself running this software on a parallel
    # world where it is necessary to share the incoming files please make sure it
    # doesn’t affect us back here. Thank you.
    #
    # Default: 1
    #
    ignore_incoming = 1

    I believe this places are seeing just by frikis like us and I found it funny and harmless.

    23 February 2007, 2:55 pm

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