'Cool it, Linus' - Bruce Perens - a bit more information about the BitKeeper story. And I agree with Bruce - Linus should never have started this silly BitKeeper business in the first place. Andrew Tridgell is just doing what he does best - cracking proprietary protocols. It's silly to attack him for that.
Archive 16. April 2005
Greens give up resistance against missile defense system
Greens drop resistance against missile defense system - the next person who asks me where the money for social system support is supposed to come from: not doing MEADS (along with many other ridiculous military projects) would be a first start.
The more than 800 million that are now being invested in the development of this military nonsense would be better spent elsewhere - and no, there are not many jobs to secure in the arms industry. The arms industry's excuse is simply wrong. Hardly any other industry is already as far rationalized as hardly any other industry.
It's also very nice to see how the big parties show unity in this regard - when it comes to spending citizens' money on nonsense and mindless trash, they quickly agree. Just as when it comes to cutting social benefits.
By the way, there is a fairly simple way to protect soldiers in foreign deployments from enemy rocket attacks: not to carry out foreign deployments ... (and don't tell me the nonsense about defending the Basic Law in the Hindu Kush now)
Server Names
Dirk Steins: Server Names - apparently, you can find the Simpsons quite often. In our case, the entire production DMZ is labeled with Simpsons names. The old production systems are all named after Lucky Luke characters, which unfortunately left a gap due to server death (William was hit). Our front-end computers are named after South Park characters. And the main firewall is named Kyle, with its failover system named Evil-Kyle.
It works quite well, Kyle is a huge asshole. Only Kenny, which we initially set up as a server in front of the firewall for playing around, just so we could once shout "My God, they killed Kenny, you bastards!" - he just doesn't want to be killed ...