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What are your favourite funny lines from programming tools

Just for fun, what are your favourite funny lines from programming tools? For instance, from subversion: --This line, and those below, will be ignored-- Not terribly fun on its right context, but added to the fortune database: EDIT: I have marked the question as Communuity Wiki and reopened. ...

Confused with Voronoi diagram algorithm (Fortune's sweepline)

Hi, I am implementing Voronoi diagram to find out the nearest location in a map visually. Right now I want to do this using integer coordinates (x,y) only in a canvas. Problem is- I am really confused about this algorithm. I read the Computational Geometry book, few more theory on Fortune's algorithm. And I am really confused now. It se...

Remove Leading Whitespace from File

My shell has a call to 'fortune' in my .login file, to provide me with a little message of the day. However, some of the fortunes begin with one leading whitespace line, some begin with two, and some don't have any leading whitespace lines at all. This bugs me. I sat down to wrapper fortune with my own shell script, which would remove a...