On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:55:31PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> 2012/11/21 Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]>:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:20:29PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> >
> >> Hi OpenBSD developers!
> >>
> >> I was logging in to a OpenBSD vm at work. It looked like this:
> >>
> >> peter@flappie ~ $ ssh [email protected]
> >> [email protected]'s password:
> >> Last login: Wed Nov 21 11:06:01 2012
> >> OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #130: Wed Mar 17 20:48:50 MDT 2010
> >>
> >> Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system.
> >>
> >> Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system.
> >> Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest
> >> version of the code. With bug reports, please try to ensure that
> >> enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed, and if a
> >> known fix for it exists, include that as well.
> >>
> >> #
> >>
> >> Nothing special. Unless you look very closely. There are two spaces
> >> between "code." and "With". That's a typo. A typo in software is a bug
> >> ;)
> >>
> >> Now the best part: this bug is almost as old as myself. According to
> >> CVS, the motd hasn't changed since 1998. I was born in 1994. So I just
> >> found a 14-year old typo in OpenBSD.
> >>
> >> Have fun fixing this tiny little old bug ;)
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >> Peter Hazenberg
> >
> > This is not a bug. It's very common style to use a double space after a
> > full stop.
> >
> > -Otto
>
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html
>
> Some typo's are very common, that doesn't make them correct.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Peter Hazenberg
/etc/motd appears mostly on terminals or terminal windows that use a
fixed width font. So this artile does not apply.
-Otto
