HOWTO Haikus


They shine like pearls in the bathwater, these seventeen-word "found haikus" that Don Marti extracted from the Linux HOWTOs. All are syllable counts for words that appear in the CMU pronounciation dictionary.

— Doc Searls


A super daemon
is bloat for those who only
want one small feature
— Werner Hauser, Linux Laptop HOWTO

I suppose you have
to fiddle around a bit
to get this working
— Werner Hauser, Linux Laptop HOWTO

It only takes a
user with a modem to
compromise your LAN
— Mark Grennan, Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO

Examples of smooth
running existing systems
are also welcome
— Stein Gjoen, HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning

CD-ROMs have a
spiraling track much like an
audio record
— Skip Rye, Optical Disk HOWTO

Rest assured that they
can determine that it's there
and will exploit it
— Kevin Fenzi & Dave Wreski, Linux Security HOWTO

The one condition
is that credit is given
where credit is due
— Harvey J. Stein, The UPS HOWTO