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Hubbard Asks FreeBSD Hackers To Rename EDOOFUS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sounds-fair-enough dept.

MobyTurbo writes "Jordan K. Hubbard, on instruction from Apple, had to inform the freebsd-hackers list that the error, pointed to by the error message number named EDOOFUS, must be changed. Several interesting suggestions have been made in the resulting thread."

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  1. A little misleading... by greck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article, it doesn't seem like Apple actually asked Hubbard to do anything, nor does it seem like he's saying it "must be changed"... he's just proactively trying to solve a problem before it forks into a silly headache. No need to inflate the drama of the situation any more than it's already going to be.

  2. Call for opinions by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously the kernel developers need OUR help to sort this sorry mess out. Everyone, please make a google news account ASAP and put your two cents in. If all of us together put our minds to it, and posted our opinions on that thread, I'm sure they would appreciate our help in solving this problem quickly and efficiently. Thanks.

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  3. Bike Shed reference by Karna · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who are left in the dark, the bike shed reference is the following:

    16.19. Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?
    The really, really short answer is that you should not. The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.

    More details at the link.

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    All weakness is within you, As is all courage.
  4. Umm.... Slow news day? by jkh · · Score: 5, Informative

    It must be when a rather innocuous request to freebsd-hackers makes it to slashdot! Just to set the record straight, I didn't do this "at Apple's request", I did this because it seemed silly to fork a header file over the name of a single entry in it and, as I said in my message to -hackers, I just thought I'd check to see if FreeBSD was willing to change it before Apple changed it in their own sources. Anyone with time to waste can see the original message (and the thread which followed) here:
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- hackers /2003-May/000791.html

    Personally, I rather liked the EDONTPANIC suggestion...

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    - Jordan Hubbard co-founder, the FreeBSD Project. Director, UNIX Technology. Apple Computer
  5. I was sold on EDONTPANIC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...as soon as I saw this post:
    In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer
    Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, FreeBSD has already supplanted
    the great UNIX[R] as the standard repository of all knowledge
    and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains
    much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it
    scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important
    respects.

    First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the error
    EDONTPANIC inscribed in large friendly letters in its source.