BOFH excuse generator

Fat fingering BGP config has nuked the internet quite a few times already.

Time by Pink Floyd.

Back in the day. Moped, cassette Walkman, and very early wired earbuds. The engine noise covered the several minutes of ticking in the beginning, so it seemed like the tape had stopped. Then the alarm clocks kicked in and startled me so badly that I almost crashed.

Code security is directly proportional to the amount of resources devoted to finding and fixing bugs regardless of open or closed. If nobody is maintaining the code, it doesn’t matter.

One advantage with open you is that you can look at the version control to see how active the code is being maintained.

What do you think will be the first fast food franchise on Mars?

My guess is Subway. Don’t need to cook anything and all of the ingredients already have enough preservatives to make the journey.

Fiction is fiction.

In real life, stalking the victim for months, sniper shots, or anything that involves any sort of sofisticiation or team of people is asking to get caught.

KISS principle. A successful hit would be as simple as possible, happen fast with no prior interaction, and involve as few people as possible.

Rocks + magic smoke.

But it is likely un-maintainable

You can also combine your names into a Linux distribution.

Deb + Ian = Debian.

Since when has any hobby with an engine been “inexpensive”

I was running for a couple of years , and my knee started to give me problems.

I went to an orthopedic Dr, and his advice was to take up swimming and if I wanted to keep running that I should hold on to his business card because someone needed to pay for his kids’ college.

I stopped running soon after and avoided surgery for a decade, but it still caught up with me. Knees are definitely cheap with for-profit healthcare.

Something supported by Rock Box firmware.

Back in the day I flashed a HDD iPad with this open source firmware. ITunes was a system crushing bloated DRM piece of crap. RockBox turned in into a portable hard drive that played everything great.

KDE.

Back when everyone was failing horribly trying to come up with a new desktop that nobody wanted KDE was the only one to get it right.

Instead of trying to shovel some bullshit “next generation” interface down your throat they decided to make all of the interface parts modular.

If you want traditional start menu you can have it, want Mac style dock got that covered, want a touch/table type interface it’s in there. If you can’t make up your mind you can setup activities to flip back and forth.