Source Code

How much would you pay to have Kirk McKusick read the source-code to the FreeBSD operating system, line by line, and explain what it is and how it works.

While I was in California, I attended his weekly class until I had to return home. (he let me pay half price since I was only at the first half of the series).

Would you pay... $1,000?

These people did: Class pictures

I wasn’t there that day. Dang!

Update: Clarification: The class was 1 night per week for 15 weeks. 15 FREAKIN' WEEKS! Here is the description. You can buy the DVD set. I highly recommend it.

Duck Season! Predator Season!

http://www.alienlovespredator.com/index.php?id=185

Alian *loves* Predator

[Public] Technical words I love: Part 4823

Meta-stable -- fluctuating within boundaries.

Homework:
Work this into a casual conversation sometime this weekend: "the fact that routing on the internet is meta-stable makes it difficult to debug problems in Europe when I'm in the US."

[Public] People Count

Hey there--

Democrats have seen so much rapid progress in so many places (sweeping four special elections in Mississippi, flipping three state legislature seats in New Hampshire that had been Republican-held for nearly 100 years) that it’s easy to forget that the 50-state strategy is a controversial plan.

It boils down to this: participation politics. I am helping to build an entirely new kind of political party -- one where every single person matters as much as the next, where each one of us has the power to take our future into our own hands. Some people don’t understand it, and some people don’t believe it will work. But I believe in the extraordinary potential of millions of Americans united in common cause to make our country better.

I think it’s time for people to count.

Please join me in supporting the Democratic Party’s 50-state strategy.

http://www.democrats.org/peoplecount

Thank you!