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Fri, 19 Jan 2007
The kernel hacker culling plan - 11:13
Linus riding along on Geoffrey's Segway (fullsize)
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Back in 1994 when Linus visited Andrew Tridgell and Canberra, Tridge took him
out to the National Aquarium and tried to kill him off with a bunch of
rabid penguins
biting him. Then a few years
later after an lca Alan Cox came to Canberra for a visit also and Tridge took
him horse riding, he fell off a horse, more proof that Tridge is trying to
kill off the kernel hackers. I suspect this is a large part of why Linus did
not want to come back to Canberra in 2005, apart form having been there before
he was wary of being near Tridge on his home turf.
Anyway at lca this year Linus and
various other Kernel hackers are in attendance. However because all Kernel
hackers are trained to be wary of Tridge at Kernel hacker school Tridge had
to get someone else to do the culling effort this time. In this instance it is
Geoffrey Bennett with his
Open Source/Hardware hand built Segway vehicle.
Geoffrey has mentioned to a few people that if you go too fast on his it can
cause a face plant or other problems as it does not yet back off correctly
when it hits top motor speed. He will I am sure have that fixed soon, however
he left that feature off here so the experienced kernel hacker Segway riders
may be tempted to take it for a fast spin and possibly have an incident
furthering Tridge's Kernel hacker cull.
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