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The Author of Ping is Reported Dead
Wedman writes: "This is in the Nanog Archive, dated 2000-11-21:
'Mike Muuss, the author of the PING program used on networks everywhere, died last night in a traffic accident on US route 95 in Maryland. He was an alumnus of Johns Hopkins." Seems appropriate on Thanksgiving to thank a man who created something that we all rely on every day.
If you hadn't noticed, Mike received the lifetime achievement award from USENIX in 1993.
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/
--Garthnak
Liberty in Our Lifetime - http://www.freeme.org/
This is sad news to read, regardless of whether or not its thanksgiving. May we all remember his name each time we use ping.
As for all of you who are cracking jokes about his death, I don't think they are funny at all.
Kindest regards,
Nathaniel G H
You can read and see another at my website.
Mike was a great man, and a good friend.
He'll be tremendously missed!
James E. Nash
ping -l 9999999999999 your-ip
The willingness of humanity to follow without question is the fall of them.
This doesn't ring true. US 95 is in Idaho and other western states.
No, I-95 runs from Maine to Florida. I drive it from Massachusetts to Maryland and vice versa whenever I visit my parents...
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I'm an hour away from an exam, and listening to Moonlight Sonata, so you'll have to excuse my -deep-and-meaningful-.
As a software engineer, I live to create systems that people will use regularly and marvell. They'll be so good that you'll not think about the story behind them much, but ocasionally you will, just for long enough to think "Wow - the preson who did this really rocks". People like Muuss are pretty important. (what is with the bloody textbox navigaion in mozilla!?!?! Driving me *insane*)
It feels wired to real death notices on slashdot. (Last one I remember was Alec Guiness..) It doesn't matter how nicely put the death of someone you respect like these people is, it alwas feels chilling.
When I'm out of my exam... well.. I'm going to karioke. But when I'm home and my head's in order again I think I'm going to start a website devoted to these reports, and as tributes to those people.
Stay tuned!
Believe with me, my saplings.
Slashdot reports on things important to the internet. Michael Muuss was important to the internet, and therefore it's proper that his death be reported here.
Mike would indeed be laughing at this right now. He had a wry sense of humor, and appreciated the diversity of the inhabitants of the internet, from the geniuses to the morons, the proper to the tactless.
He had a heart of gold.
His family knows, they were very close. His father, Rolf Muuss, is an educator and textbook author. His mother died earlier this year of cancer. Their family has been hard hit.
That's good. I don't think the ping jokes are in bad taste. It's a tribute to Mr. Muuss. He created something that so many people know about and can get the jokes.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
The funeral should be the traditional jazz funeral.
Basically it is one huge party. Death's significance is as large as one of a wedding. So people should party. Life is celebrated, but shouldn't we celebrate his passing on to Afterlife?.
May he find all the answers to his unanswerable questions that he has asked on earth. Maybe he can now really come back and fiddle around with those electrons flowing through these pesky networks here. But he has no reason to... in the Great unfailing Internet in the sky, he probably won't even need 'ping'.
Muuss is dead! Long live Muuss!
Hello (PING) ... Without you there is no network... Hello (PING)... Without you there is no one! God speed father of hello!
It is a dream, or at least I hope so!
Agh. Here I was, about to reply with that EXACT SAME MESSAGE.. I hate you.
I checked it out and he seems fine to me.
unbridled 2 % ping ftp.arl.mil
ftp.arl.army.mil is alive
Vanguard
That which does not kill me only makes me whinier
Typical of a yankee to talk like an aussie.
The willingness of humanity to follow without question is the fall of them.
You will be missed
Free Web based FTP
I barely knew Mike, some of my friends were his friends, and I met him and talked to him several times. I didn't know he was an internet pioneer, I just knew he was a very nice guy and he always had a smile on his face. He was one of the few people in the world who you find yourself respecting by default.
Glad you told me. I don't read the geek. I would have never known, blissfully unaware that slashdot had repeated something that some website I've never even fucking heard of posted it. Those fucking slashdot assholes.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Unlike the story at K5 somehow the posters don't seem to be able to bring a message of respect. Ah well, it's only Slashdot. I guess the little cross on the top right of the window should stop the melancholy...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Making jokes about someone who's died is a way of coping with loss. And besides, I've got some great jokes about deaths in my own family, but you wouldn't apreciate them because you don't know my family. When we're at a funural, we always have to look out so that we don't get thrown out because of our laughter. So that leads to silently shaking and tears in our eyes, which looks like we're grieving, but we're just trying our best not to burst out in laughter. I'm sorry but it's true.
I don't feel like a Pioneer, I feel fine. :-)
Mike Muuss was also the author of BRL CAD, one of the most useful 3D modeling programs out there. It has one of the most intense CSG systems out there. I don't know what its licensing is, but I hope someone (with a strong graphics and geometry background) picks this up.
IIRC, he was working on real-time raytracing systems.
I drove on route 95 just few minutes ago. I could have been on his place.
How sad to see one of the real creators of Internet die in an accident. How long will it take before cars will be obsoleted by ping, telnet, X11, VNC, whatever...
RIP: Destination host unreachable
RIP: 100% Packet Loss
RIP: Request timed out
Finally,
* * * Mike Muuss
Hands in my pocket
MUUSS, Michael J. Tragically on November 20, 2000, MICHAEL J., loving son of Dr. Rolf E.and the late Gertrude L. Muuss; beloved brother of Gretchen E. Frensemeier; dearest nephew of Ernestine Himes. The family will receive friends in the Divinity Lutheran Church, 1220 Providence Rd., Towson, MD 410-823-8293 on Saturday from 6 to 9 P.M. and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held in church on Monday, November 27 at 11 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers contributions may be directed in Mr. Muuss name to the American Red Cross, 4700 Mt. Hope Dr., Balto. MD 21215 or to Nature Conservancy, 5410 Grosvenor La., Suite 100, Bethesda, MD 20814. Inquiries may be directed to Lemmon Funeral Home, 410-252-6000. Originally published Nov 25 2000 Link
I own my own buisness little wanker, which is more than aye can say for you eh !!!
Lets go get in some of dat derre smog ehe? How is it up der? You like breathin that shit
don't ye?
The willingness of humanity to follow without question is the fall of them.
Because bad jokes are not politically correct.
Think about the children!
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
"And like that
It seems ironic that his tool has really outlived its usefulness. I would think ICMP would be one of the first things blocked at your firewall to keep pings and traceroutes out of your network. Also, no sense in letting those ICMP echo replies back either since they're very useful to do remote controlling of trojaned machines. i.e. many firewall admins block echo requests but forget to block echo replies, unreachables, etc. which can just as easily be used to map your network and control machines (read: Loki).
Linux is only Free if your time is worth Nothing
Linux is only free if your time is of no value
Be in Your Senses
So .... the machine that goes PING has stopped
Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -- Ron Nesen
ok, that would take a while to read. So instead of doing that squire, lets go have some tea!
Yes, my yankee friend, i agree. Lets have some tea. After you. No please after you. No, i insist
after you. Thank you very much. Your very welcome.
My friend of misery.
The willingness of humanity to follow without question is the fall of them.
I agree that there are a lot of rude and disrespectful people out there, but people should be informed about this.
Guys one of you is talking about a interstate route, and other is talking about a state route.
Cheers,
Tomas
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Cheers,
This really sucks. I didn't know who he was, but.. damn. From what I can see of him now, he was a really cool guy.
/. nested, so these two comments were right on top of eachother:
But anyway, I found this amusing. I read
100% Packet Loss (Score:5, Insightful)
It is sad (Score:4, Insightful)
To see all the bad taste of some the post that are put up here...
All PINGS at half mast.
Ping timed out...
100% packet loss.
Let his name live on as long as his program.
He published quite a bit of code that went into good use around the world, tho ping is undoubtably the most long-lived.
He'll be missed. Here's to you, Mike, wherever you are. May your roundtrips be low, your bandwidth high, and your storage farm at 100% uptime.
I guess if you try to send him a message now you'll get 100% packet loss. Just some grim humor, not trying to be a troll.
Are you really asking if a denial of service would be appropriate?
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
Not to mention Buffalo's driving ban...
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Could you ping my hostname,
if I routed to heaven?
Will it be the same,
if I routed to heaven?
I must hack long, and echo on,
cause I know that there are no
Pings in Heaven.
Would you know my addr,
if I routed to heaven?
Would you scan my ports,
if I routed to heaven?
I know I'll code my way, through night and day
Cause I know that there are no
Pings in Heaven.
ECHO can show you around,
ECHO can help you see,
ECHO can clog your pipe,
And have you screaming at script kiddies,
Script kiddies...
(flashing routing lights...)
K, it's early, and I have no coffee in me yet, I'll probably look back on this later and shoot myself.. :)
His spirit will live on in the form of ping. There can be no greater legacy then to leave behind a tool that is used by millions every day.
So what you are saying is that if Bill Gates were to die tomorrow, his death would be less meaningful to the tech. world than any of the others listed? I mean, his business practices are one thing, but you have to admit that he has had a rather significant impact on the I/T world in general.
He should be thanked. He contributed just as Mr. Muuss did, unfortunately, he has gotten bit in the ass for his more recent "contributions".
You saw it at TheGeek because I posted it there and it was actually accepted. I submitted it here 2 days ago and got rejected - then suddenly it turtns up from somebody else!! Sux!!.. Anyway, best wishes to his family and friends at this time.
Destination host not reachable.
Before you email me, remember: "There is no god!"
From all of us at ghost.bofh.nf.net.
We send our prayers to Mike's family. God bless old friend.
-Ghost
> you really should learn to respect the dead.
I think the world first needs to learn to respect the living.
And I'll think of Mike every time I use it. His work and memory will live on for a really long time.
Doh. Read the article. It was a collision.
Link.
and i think almost everyone that ever did packet construction code know what i'm talking about.
.. probably the most widly stolen function in the history of programming :-) .. very few people give credit though, but its quite unique and easy to spot where its used.
jupp, in_cksum from ping.c
-- gunzip-howto.tar.gz
I didn't know that that was from the MD/VA/DC area... I-95 is a terrible road to drive on. I make the 495 commute every morning from Fairfax to Bethesda and let me tell you that is quit easy... but for those that travel farther and longer than that... they all will agree that the drivers are just absolutely horrible... it's unforutnate that someone like Mike had to die at the hands of a freak motor accident.... :(
If that's a troll, it's an awfully well-crafted one.
/etc/resolv.conf (assuming you're not usinga a local caching DNS, in which case you want to go for the servers it refers to). But I usually only do that if pinging yahoo.com fails.
Pinging 127.0.0.1 will only tell you if the lo interface is up, and that isn't particularly useful in most situations.
I find it's best to ping the address of my DNS servers. The addresses are right there in
I knew Mike professionally for about twenty years. I visited him at BRL several times, and chatted with him at some of the early UNIX meetings. He and Doug Kingston (now at Morgan Stanley Peat Marwick or whatever they're named this week) made a teriffic team in the days when keeping a national TCP/IP net running took the cooperation of everyone involved. When the main routers were LSI-11s, you needed to know the tricks, and Mike knew them all.
He went the extra mile to help people all over, though it was no part of his job to do so. BRL didn't treat him as a sinecure and let him have his head. He put in a full day doing BRL stuff and then helped other folks around the country on his own time.
He was just an all-around great guy. One of the First has died.
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We have fought the AC's, and they have won.
user@foo ~$ ping mike.muuss
PING mike.muuss (128.63.240.80): 56 data bytes
^C
--- mike.muuss ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
I've had the honor of caretaking a web site of a writer who died in a car accident last year. The family doesn't want the hassle of dealing with the technical issues or the thought of this information floating around forever. The reality is that you keep the site running a year or two until the domain registration expires and then you archive the files into cold storage. Your digital self isn't as permanent as you might want to think.
FYI, Mike's web site: http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/, for the moment.
I'm sorry... that was awful. :)
We'll all end up there eventually.
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All men are great
before declaring war
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
At least his memory will live on as long as the internet shall survive, in perverse way its seems appropriate that his ftp site has been slashdotted.
Somehow all that comes to mind is the phrase 'Only the good die, all the evil seems to live forever' seem appropriate (maybe its just my warped sense of humour)
I'm sure that if Muuss was reading /. right now, he'd be laughing at these jokes as much as any of us.
Let me tell you why humor exists... we have humor so that we can cope with the tragic events that populate our lives. It's a way of coping with loss... and a pretty damn good one too. Besides, I can barely think of any better ways to respect the dead than by calling attention to their accomplishments through humor.
Although, I must apologize for contributing to the excessive "destination unreachable" jokes. *sob* I didn't read everyone's posts before I cracked that one.
Let's not strip the poor guy of his dignity by letting asocial jerks run riot.
Do you think that his dignity depends on the sayings of Slashdot trolls?
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
What happens to dead's homepage ? Do someone close them ? Or do they stand, like a simulacrum of eternity?
For a while, Afterdeath was formed by volonteers that would maintain pages of dead people. But it seems that the project is also dead.
Then, given the low cost of diskspace and unused bandwidth and the high cost of webmaster attention, probably they join the number of the Ghostsites.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
...or something like that.
His cousin Pang is looking good too, although shes having trouble with spheres at the moment.
Ruhe in Frieden!
Hey, withouth Billy boy, the world wouldn't have been such a fun place.. as the say diversity is good.. YOu don't have to like MS platform, but they sure made their mark on the OS map. Mind you, don't fancy their stuff too much either, but I think it would have been less fun withouth them. Who would you have argued with if there wasn't all those wacky MS - zealots?
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
true, starts to get tired of all these ppl who consider him purified evil.. He's probably a decent guy, shure, I don't agree with a lot of his stuff and business tactics, but I don't think he's walking around wishing us all to die, he probably thinks he's doing the right thing!
And as you said, he donates money, for whatever reason, that's a good thing...
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
Rest in peace.
Bill - aka taniwha
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Bill - aka taniwha
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Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
As a tribute, we should all ping Micrsoft.com for 1 minute, starting at exactly 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, or exactly 15 minutes from the time of this post.
I block inbound ping on my networks, too..
It's not because of too much traffic, it's part of a decent security policy.
The rationale is pretty simple: Pings are used by attackers prior to portscans, so they can see if the hosts on a given network have machines connected to them. Blocking pings has one of two outcomes:
1) the attacker thinks that there are no machines on the network, so doesn't portscan anything, and goes to bug someone else. (This means I don't get bothered by them.)
2) If the attacker doesn't know which IP addresses have hosts and which don't, so they spend their time scanning every port on every IP address on the network, even though lots of IP addresses are unused. (This means I have much more time to do something about it.)
Either way, I win...
ping...ping...ping...ping...ping...ping....
...........................................
...........................................
.............
.............
ping..........ping..........ping...........
piiing.............piiiiing................
piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing..
TTL=0
ppp daemon died unexpectedly
He didn't just write ping. He was also responsible for implementing raw ICMP sockets in the 4.2b BSD source, which not only allows ping to work, but traceroute as well. Muuss also wrote TTCP, as well as invented the concept of the default gateway. He was also one of the first people advocating widespread use of TCP/IP and UNIX among government entities that were outside DARPA. Without guys like Postel, Stevens, and now Muuss, it's very likely that UNIX, TCP/IP and the modern Internet as we know it wouldn't be the same. Check here for his achievements in his own words at Internet-history.org.
> traffic accident on US route 95 in Maryland.
This doesn't ring true. US 95 is in Idaho and other western states.
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Joe
I use netscape weird. from the days when I was netscape fanatic....
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
heh, if I had to guess which highway he died on i would have said 95, the stretch that runs through CT is called Devils highway by some because there is so may wrecks on there. Its also the reson there is no toll booths in CT. Some will remember about 15 years back when school was letting out. All the school buses and socker moms where all waiting in traffic at the milford toll booth when along came a runaway fuel tanker...
I have to return some videotapes...
Ping was like a keep-alive. It would seem God pinged him and got 'Response Timed Out'
For those of you that haven't read the ping page on his site.
"The best ping story I've ever heard was told to me at a USENIX conference, where a network administrator with an intermittent Ethernet had linked the ping program to his vocoder program, in essence writing:
ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder
He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure."
Haha.. Gotta love it.
Peace.
Thank you. Drive through. (:wq)
I know, it is a sad story. I hope his family could recover soon.
But, don't be so strict. When I saw this report first I was sad, but then I thought "lets see what funny comments were posted".
It is almost impossible not to make a funny remark. PING is used daily by lots of people to find out if a host is dead or alive.
I hope when I die someone could say something funny about my life.
MOD THE CHILD UP!
ping mike.muuss
Pinging mike.muuss [102.11.20.11] with 64 bytes of data:
Request timedout
Request timedout
Request timedout
Someone you trust is one of us.
I wonder if his family knows about his contributions, if they don't, someone should tell them, so they know that his work is still in use today.
Although, I feel a bit creepy using something coded by a man that is now dead.
Anyone know how many other programs we use daily that were developed by people that are now dead?
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http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/muuss99.jpg
I had a moment of silence and commenced a 21 ping salute in honor of his life's contributions to this world. The heavens acknowledged the pings. Its good to know Mike was there in spirit to hear our appreciation.
May your pings always be answered.
You should thank bill gates, without him PC's wouldnt have taken over the world...
Anyways, pretty stuck up he does give away lots of his money (throw away your conspiracy theories, what matter sis he does it)
Jeremy
Pioneer of ping
From mike.muuss: Destination
Host Unreachable
Why does slash run death stories? Does no-one remember why moderation was implemented?
Since it is clear that Slashdot trolls cannot behave themselves, it is simply inappropriate for Slashdot to cover deaths. At the very least, ban AC's (like this I guess) from commenting on death notices. Let's not strip the poor guy of his dignity by letting asocial jerks run riot.
Customer Comments A reader from Upper Volta, Uzbekistan, March 7, 1999 Excellent, heart-warming tale of exploration and discovery. Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the program, as their book first appeared in 1933, years (decades!) before the operating system and network infrastructure were finalized. The book describes networking in terms even a child could understand, choosing to anthropomorphize the underlying packet structure. The ping packet is described as a duck, who, with other packets (more ducks), spends a certain period of time on the host machine (the wise-eyed boat). At the same time each day (I suspect this is scheduled under cron), the little packets (ducks) exit the host (boat) by way of a bridge (a bridge). From the bridge, the packets travel onto the internet (here embodied by the Yangtze River). The title character -- er, packet, is called Ping. Ping meanders around the river before being received by another host (another boat). He spends a brief time on the other boat, but eventually returns to his original host machine (the wise-eyed boat) somewhat the worse for wear. The book avoids many of the cliches one might expect. For example, with a story set on a river, the authors might have sunk to using that tired old plot device: the flood ping. The authors deftly avoid this. Who Should Buy This Book If you need a good, high-level overview of the ping utility, this is the book. I can't recommend it for most managers, as the technical aspects may be too overwhelming and the basic concepts too daunting. Problems With This Book As good as it is, The Story About Ping is not without its faults. There is no index, and though the ping(8) man pages cover the command line options well enough, some review of them seems to be in order. Likewise, in a book solely about Ping, I would have expected a more detailed overview of the ICMP packet structure. But even with these problems, The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage on the Windows API ("Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight -- Nothing whatever I discerned therein."), without shaking their head with deep understanding. But I digress.
You can find a more info (other than a newsgroup message :) at The Register.
To see all the bad taste of some the post that are put up here. I wish his family well may he find peace.
A 21 Ping salute?
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
..but it really happened after I read this article:
~#> ping multinet.no
PING multinet.no (193.90.12.10) from 195.1.220.61 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From pirs01accs-fe2-0.trondheim.no.eu.net (193.91.239.114): Time to live exceeded
From r1-155PO7-1-Osls.Osl.NO.KPNQwest.net (193.75.3.5): Time to live exceeded
From r1-155PO7-1-Osls.Osl.NO.KPNQwest.net (193.75.3.5): Time to live exceeded
(...)
-skurk
It is too bad that he has died. We all use ping regularly. I find it rather unbelievable that we get so upset about some things (plane crashes, devestating but rare diseases, etc) and we completely ignore the danger that cars pose to us everyday. Hopefully people will drive safely this thanksgiving.
-Moondog
The ping is dead. Long live the ping!
PING muuss from slashdot.org, 56 bytes
slashdot.org reports: Destination host unreachable
slashdot.org reports: Destination host unreachable
slashdot.org reports: Destination host unreachable
^C
God bless ya, Mike. I pay my homage to you for making my job, and the jobs of millions of others, that much simpler.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
DrQu+xum: Proof that the lameness filter doesn't work.
I knew Mike. Not as well as some, and not for long in the grand scheme of things, but I knew him, and I will miss him. We met on a java course in the DC area, and had a wonderful time joking about life the universe and everything, and went out for drinks after class several times. We had been corresponding by email ever since, until recently when his emails suddenly stopped.
I figured he'd just gotten busy as high-tech people are wont to do. I didn't know the truth until I read slashdot this morning. I am sitting at my desk in total shock. The world is diminished. I wouldn't say that about many people. Mike had SUCH a broad range of interests, he was a really fascinating person to talk to, and intelligent beyond belief. He will be missed. I would be deeply grateful if some of his other friends would email me, I would really like to share my memories of him with those that will understand.
What a way to find out. I am still shaking.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
Long live the ping!
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Unlike every other document on the Web, this page is in final form and completely finished. *grin* thats kind of creepy to see on his webpage when hes dead...
Like most people here I use Ping daily. Like most people here I had never heard of Mike Muuss.
But from what Ive read of his writing on his homepage (linked from above) and his letter to the InterNet Historical Society (linked from above) it seems Mike would have had a wry sense of humour.
Mike seems to have been a massive influence on great area's of computing (Internet, TCPIP, UNIX) and that should be celebrated and tech people should be Thankful for his efforts, and due honour paid now that he has passed.
But when a person dies, absolute reverence does not exclude comments of some brevity.
I am SURE, as I would have, foreseen the 100% Packet Loss jokes coming when I was dead - and I would have found the idea very amusing and quite complementary... Ill assume Mike Muss dosnt mind*...
*I know this sounds presumptuous but I think I you would see my point... Apologies to those who find it so nonetheless.
Ping detects packet losses, which often come from collisions. How ironic.
From his homepage:
Teach your kids: "C++ made baby Jesus cry."
This article reminded me of something I find kind of annoying: when sites turn off ICMP replies. Slashdot does this, and it confuses me a lot when I am trying to comfirm that an internal network connection is able to access the outside, I sometimes try pinging slashdot, and it doesn't work. Then, after spending 5-10 minutes "troubleshooting", I remember that I can never ping slashdot!
sorry, just had to get that out...
-MSD.dyndns.org
"Sucks to your ass-mar"
His work site will remain up because it has so much information that is off interest to the world. There is no need for it to ever go off line.
His personal server is still up and will remain up for as long as I can keep it running.
it happens to me also, check on thegeek the post about spock's ear to be sold at christies for example, it has been rejected here, and accepted at the geek
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"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
Looks like they are now filtering pings (forgive them, they probably had no choice). Also, the web page times out when I try to access it.
Slashdotted.
[Bill Gates] should be thanked...
And the mafia should be thanked for their contributions to local communities. No thanks.
"Don't mourn the deceased. That only insults them."
There must be a lot of insulted dead people out there.
The thing to keep in mind is that the way to handle death is a cultural thing. Go to a search engine and type in "funeral" & "culture".
Sometimes humour is approprite sometimes it isn't.
It has been confirmed that Ping's brother Pong, is fine and well. Pong, an inventor of a popular video game, is well respected in all circles for his contributions in programming and entertainment. With the untimely departure of his brother, he is now the sole holder of another popular table-based game co-developed with his brother loosely titled "Ping Pong." Our condolences go out to Pong, and we hope he rebounds shortly.
3-Server OC-3 Linux Counter-Strike Cluster
www.rnp.ca
i already read that on http://thegeek.org
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"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
I agree in principle, but it'd be a bit difficult...but I'll try....
[snip]
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
DrQu+xum: Proof that the lameness filter doesn't work.
From their article:
The accident happened at 9.30pm (New York time) on route 95 as a result of a previous accident. Mike hit a car stuck in the middle of the road and was pushed into the path of an oncoming tractor.
Has anyone enough resources to start mirroring the homepages of geeks who have passed on? It could contain short bios of what the geeks did, then link on to a mirror of their homepages they kept while alive. Just an idea. (I used to work at ARL and met Mike once. Seemed like a nice guy.)
...or maybe not.
(Why does God get all the best coders?)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Peace to the family.
/home/users/jd # ping -f microsoft.com
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/home/users/jd #
jd@linuxgod [7:19pm]
PING microsoft.com (207.46.230.218): 56 data bytes
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--- microsoft.com ping statistics ---
274 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
jd@linuxgod [7:19pm]
The willingness of humanity to follow without question is the fall of them.
Rest in peace, Michael Muuss. You were obviously one helluva hard-working computer scientist. May we all help the world progress and communicate like you have.
Thank you for rejecting this story when I submitted it a day before, and posting it yourself.
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The irony is that "Worthless nerd dies, big deal!" is probably exactly what your family will put on your tombstone when you die.
RIP
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the Free Republic
Lets all hope the guy writing the eulogy doesn't come to Slashdot seeking for inspiration..
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sad news truly.
bad timing brother...even those who didn't know you shall miss you. rest in peace.
arl.mil's domain recently changed to arl.army.mil try there. Oh, yeah...ARL does filter ICMP...sorry! /x
While you're waiting, Slashdot had a nice review of The Story About Ping. Packet transit made so simple even a child can understand!
And I don't mean the protocol. Jesus, I had to use ping about 10 times already today...
This link was included in the Nanog link, but was unlabeled...it's Mike's Story of Ping. He sounds like a neat person just from his writing style.
Wow, no plays on "ping of death" yet?
Please all have one minute of ping in his honor:
ping -c 60 ftp.arl.mil
That's so strange to look at http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ and thinks this guy talking to you, and giving you a mailto: link is dead. It's like if there was a ghost speaking to you.
What happens to dead's homepage ? Do someone close them ? Or do they stand, like a simulacrum of eternity ?
Internet is something too young to be accustomed to death
It's a sad news.
sigmentation fault
it will happen again someone important dies, but
even more it will happen someone important will be born...
Man, you really should learn to respect the dead.