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.

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I am a witty person!

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For those who doubted it all these years, /. proves me right!

In 1999 my signature read "Only idiots quote signatures". It ceased being funny after the millionth idiot quoted it so I changed it into a normal and informative signature. And thanks to Google I can also prove it. :-)

Re:I am a witty person!

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Oh, I don't want to take credit from other people so I must add that I did not have the text "Only idiots quote signatures" quoted like in this and the above /. post. Someone else came up with that joke and used it in his signature. I'd say he is a witty person too.