KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell

Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap has interviewed Rusty Russell, a humorous and productive contributer to Linux Kernel development. Author of ipchains, netfilter/iptables, futexes, per-cpu counters, hot pluggable CPU support, and the new in-kernel module loading code, Rusty's efforts have had a significant impact on the upcoming 2.6 kernel. For a humorous sample of Rusty's wit, one only needs to look at his email signature which reads, 'Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.'" Rusty is a great guy, and this is a worthwhile read.

Comments

Plagarist!

[Anonymous Coward]

Author of ipchains, netfilter/iptables, futexes, per-cpu counters, hot pluggable CPU support, and the new in-kernel module loading code

We all know SCO/Caldera did that!

Re:Plagarist!

[Anonymous Coward]

It rather loses its humour if you're not Rusty Russell.

Re:Plagarist!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's like a curse.

Worse, it's like a Beowulf cluster of SCO jokes.

Sig

[deltagreen]

For a humorous sample of Rusty's wit, one only needs to look at his email signature which reads, 'Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

Now that's a perfect sig:

Rusty

[Timesprout]

JA: Digging through old lkml archives, I see that your first name is Paul. Is Rusty a nickname?

no I was left out in the rain as a child

Looking at the photo of Rusty begs the question:

[burgburgburg]

How long have you worshipped the dark lord Satan?

Hot pluggable CPU support

[Anonymous Coward]

OK - I yanked my trusty Intel CPU out without powering off the box (and, yup, it was damn hot). Now what happens? Why isn't the patch working?

Re:Hot pluggable CPU support

[bill_mcgonigle]

You can open the side of the case and take a whiz in it, and the machine will keep chugging.

I'm guessing where you grew up you didn't come across very many electric horse fences, did you?

Let me rephrase then: After looking at the ...

[burgburgburg]

photo of Rusty, I feel compelled to ask him this question: How long have you worshipped the dark lord Satan?

Confess now, was it you?

[craw]

JA: Is there a story behind your email signature?

Rusty Russell: The joys of working in an office: Chris Yeoh told me someone quoted me in their sig, on slashdot. Well obviously, I went and checked it out, and the guy had misspelled my name.

From this sample size of one, I determined that everyone who quotes me in their sig is mentally deficient.

Okay, who was the idiot?:-)

Re:Confess now, was it you?

[grub]

Found it.

I am leet. (Score:-1, Troll)
by CmdrTaco (1) on Thursday February 18, @11:28AM (#000012)

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Taco

--
"Hacking Linux is cool."
-Rustee Rustle

Magic?

[NorthDude]

Hot pluggable CPU support ...

Now, that is what I call a technological advance! You can execute code in the kernel and THEN, afterward, plug in the cpu. Does somebody knows how they do this?!?

I think the quote: "Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." applies well in this case

Re:Magic?

[LearnToSpell]

I think it has something to do with the anticipatory scheduling patches, right? It knows what you're going to do, and then when you finally plug in the CPU, it runs the backlog.

humorous signatures

[Kynde]

"For a humorous sample of Rusty's wit, one only needs to look at his email signature"

No pun intented towards Rusty, I do concider him to be a great chap, but to offer a signature as a proof of that?

I've seen tons of humorous sigs here after completely witless posts. And now that I think about it, this post is yet another proof of that concept.