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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, John Bradford wrote:
> Quote from Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>:
> > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tobias Hirning wrote:
> >
> > > have you ever tried a
> > > grep "insult" -i -r ./*
> > > in the sourcetree of the kernel?
> >
> > Yeah, isn't it great ?
> >
> > Hours and hours of fun, learning more about
> > crappy hardware than you ever wanted to know.
> >
> > > So do and think about, because the you can find to much of
> > > insults in the sources.
> >
> > Too much? Considering how amazingly bad some
> > stuff is (especially hardware bugs) I'm quite
> > surprised there aren't more of those amusing
> > profanities throughout the source code.
> >
> > Maybe I should start hacking device drivers,
> > so I can legitimately add them ?
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
> Patches specifically to add insults are probably 2.7 material :-).
>
> John.
Gotta be careful. SCO probably patented most of them ;^).
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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