Don’t complain about the consistancy, it’s a daily.

Toothpastefordinner.

Via the [infowarrior] list, a reminder that yesterday was the 16th anniversary of the Morris Worm.

Wow. Just, wow.

NYT reporter Ron Suskind speaks with a Bush staffer…

The aide said that guys like me were ‘‘in what we call the reality-based community,’’ which he defined as people who ‘‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’’ he continued. ‘‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’’

Follow links, read the articles, then check out the t-shirts.

I might just make my own. This has been a long time coming.

Col. Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains
Nation, Washington, DC
Tue, Sep 28, 2004 07:30 PM

Amazingly I just managed to snatch up three tickets the day before the event. Thanks for the reminder Sean.

UPDATE / GRIPE: The ticketma$ter surcharge for three tickets cost more than an individual ticket.

Freshmeat project idea: Replace Ticketmaster with an open system.

UPDATE TWO: I have an extra ticket! Erk! Brent! Anybody?

I’m a sucker for a good t-shirt.

LaMerkIndustries is a Stephen King / Dark Tower series reference. I’d have expected something with a satellite dish or the star shape of the beams for the logo but I love the back.

Large and ExtraLarge only – I’ll have to ask him to set up a cafepress shop.

Whoa.

I used to have one of these locks but threw it away because I’d lost the key.

Cylindrical key-hole, meet ball-point pen.

We used to use them as spit-ball-shooters in elementary school.

Having recently placed a call to the Microsoft Clearinghouse to get a 25 character license re-activated and been bounced between multiple clearinghouse representatives, tech support, and back to the clearinghouse, I wanted to have this handy for posterity.

Here we are…

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu 

There are many phonetic alphabets. The above one is the one Microsoft uses.

It looks like the RAF dropped Beer for B during WWI.

I just bought writequit.com.

Reg req’d.

“He said, ‘We can’t give it to you’,” Mr. Kennedy said, describing an encounter with an airline agent to the rapt audience. " ‘You can’t buy a ticket to go on the airline to Boston.’ I said, ‘Well, why not?’ He said, ‘We can’t tell you.’ "

“Tried to get on a plane back to Washington,” Mr. Kennedy continued. ‘’ ‘You can’t get on the plane.’ I went up to the desk and said, ‘I’ve been getting on this plane, you know, for 42 years. Why can’t I get on the plane?’ "

The hearing room erupted in laughter.

OOoooOOOooOOOoooooh you waskawy tewwawist flag in the database!!

…Mr. Kennedy emphasized his concern for passengers stuck on no-fly lists. But he tried to make light of his own troubles.

He said, to much laughter, that he did not believe the mistake was a conspiracy engineered by his Republican colleagues. And as Mr. Hutchinson offered up his apologies, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, responded jokingly in kind.

Mr. Hutchinson said, “Senator, we do regret that inconvenience to you.”

Mr. Hatch said, “Quit smiling when you say that.”

Non-geeks: Groups can only e-mail a document back and forth to work on it at certain sizes. When it’s a few million lines it has to be maintained in one place and changes (patches) need to be inspected one at a time because hundres of people are throwing them in rapid-fire. Impressive account of a speech about stats about the developement of the linux kernel after moving from old-and-busted(CVS) to new-hotness(BitKeeper) versioning systems:

Pre-Bitkeeper, this is how they did it: maintainer sends patches to Linus. Wait. Resend if patches dropped. Lather, rinse, repeat.

January 2002 - patch penguin lkml flame fest. Worried about patchs getting dropped. Linus decided to use BitKeeper, 2.5.3 first kernel. “License weenies got their panties in bind, ah feh.” (Greg is like the Vin Diesel of kernel dev: I keep expecting him to shout “I! LOVE! THIS! DEVELOPMENT CYCLE!!!”.)

BitKeeper change things a lot. Bitkeeper maintainers got a lot more work. Linus sucks in all patches, discarded crappy stuff. Non-bk maintainers just sent patches as it goes.

Unexpected consequences: we knew what Linus was doing, so much better feedback. Bk2cvs and bk2svn trees. bkcommits-head mailing list so you could you see what was flying around.

All patches started to go through Andrew Morton; BK stuff goes through Linus.

Result: 2.6.0 = Two years of dev, 27149 different patches, 1.66 patches per hour. At least 916 unique contributors. Top developers handled 6956 patches. Ten patches a day for two years. People should research this data.

2.6.1 538 patches. 2.6.2 = 1472, 2.6.3 = 863 patches, 2.6.4 1385 patches…. keeps going. bY 2.6.7 2306 patches. Something is wrong. This is the stable kernel, but we’re going faster –- one million lines added, 700 thousand lines deleted: a third of the kernel. A lot of data, and this is stable. Feeling uncomfortable yet?

I need a new PC. I haven’t even booted a 2.5+ kernel. I was in 2.4 land ~2.4.2 praying for usb fixes that 2.2 wasn’t up to. A shuttle is in my future.