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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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Gimme props, yo.
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!
Rusty is a great guy. He's doesn't get the credit he deserves. I met him at a LinuxCon a few years ago. Most kernel developers are stuck up pricks, but not Rusty. And he tosses salad like a pro too!
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welcome our kernel-trapping overlords
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:Leader of the Kstrdup Core Team!
0x2b or not 0x2b, the answer is -1
Which kernel does he run? ;-)
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
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
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. :-)
Antti S. Brax - Old school - http://www.iki.fi/asb/
A mutually exclusive futon?
I prefer talking with his daughter, Georgie Russel...
confirms what we knew all along
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'Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. '
-- Rusty Russell
How long have you worshipped the dark lord Satan?
he IBM Linux Technology Center is the misnomer which refers to the worldwide group within IBM whose mission is to "Accelerate the maturation of standard, architecture-independent Linux into the enterprise", or as we say "Make Linux Better". It's our job to contribute stuff where needed: from one point of view it's a way of collecting a paycheck while working full-time on what I love doing.
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Free your mind.
"Begging the question" is when you make a point, but have to accept the point before the logic that you use makes sense.
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?
And my signature says:
...can you believe it?
Fuck YOU!
photo of Rusty, I feel compelled to ask him this question: How long have you worshipped the dark lord Satan?
But I don't see the humor in that. Then again, I never saw the humor in that stupid GNU is Not Unix recursion, either.
Usurp Linus.
Then replace the monolithic kernel with something truly modular.
Recompiling because you bought a new mouse or sound card is friggin ridiculous. Compiling in support for every possible device under the sun and winding up with a kernel with bloat that makes Mozilla look optimized is equally ridiculous.
Thank you.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
At least I got a new sig out of it.
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"Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell."
Choose yer poison: Prophets or Profits
Why are so many hackers gay? ESR, McKusick, Rusty.. Back in the day the real hackers were hard core womanizers. Seymour Cray has a line of women a mile long..
and my signature says:
...can you believe it?
"Fuck YOU!"
kernel-trapping overlords welcome YOU!
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?:-)
I've worked with Rusty back in 1978 at TeleSys Interactive where we designed the DEC Alpha along with the folks at Sony. Rusty was great in creating and then subsequently optimizing the assembly code for the modular interface which we used in our token ring network. He also designed our own TCP stack which proved to be quite efficient and ended up being used at Datsun in the mid 90s when they became disenchanted with the progress that the Amstrad folks were showing.
It was a pleasure working with him and we still keep in touch, although I've retired from the IT field and have pursued more holistic goals.
Which is nice.
and my signature says:
...can you believe it?
:)"
"Fuck YOU!"
Note to those pathetic moderators: "I can re-post this INTERESTING comment as often as I like. I even don't need a script to waste your mod points
JA: When I interviewed Andrew Morton I definitely got the feeling that you've impressed at least him. :)
Rusty Russell: That's such an amazing compliment, because I aspire be more like Andrew.
That's what makes a good community, people who inspire, impress and encourage each-other. I've noticed that the 'big name' hackers tend to be ones who want to inspire people, not shoot them down.
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" P. J. O'Rourke
Metaphors use "like or as".
You're busted, too pal.
By the grammar and usage police
100% true! I also met rusty, not only is he a fabulous salad tosser, but his Cleveland steamers are to die for!
Too bad he's such a dick about supporting the libiptc API. It's pretty confusing to use, and his asshole wit shows up in what little documentation there is.
There's my 2c about Rusty Russel.
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
I'd rather be sailing...
With Hot Swap CPU being an experimental patch, is there a Hot Swap Memory patch in the works as well?
In some systems in order to swap the CPU's you have to remove some memory (and even IO) while you are doing the swapping.
I'm a nerd: "begging the question"
Yes?
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I'm willing to bet Rusty is the first person to both a pro football player and kernel developer
So, Rusty Russell is claiming that he is an idiot? I think he is lying.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
It is: the fact that we're doomed to hearing the same 'it belongs to SCO' joke attached to every single Linux-related story from for the rest of eternity.
What were you thinking?
I'd rather be sailing...
"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.
1 Earth is warming, 2 It's us, 3 it's royally bad, 4 we need to take action NOW
I agree with the IBM comment. But this looks like an attempt by a Slashdot wanna-be to get his name out there. Come up with your own idea, don't copy a great site and attempt to call it your own.
Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
I think I'll change my sig to:
"Anyone who quotes Rusty Russell in their sig is an idiot."
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
This has been the least interesting thread on the front page for some time....I mean, I'm browsing at +1, and most of the posts are jokes about SCO, Russell's sig, and the name "Rusty."
Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent. --Ludwig Wittgenstein
I wrote lots of little things here and there: an example is the compressed loopback module I wrote as a throwaway project in 1999. I found out recently that it's the basis of Knoppix, which is an incredibly impressive project. I could never have done that: is that cool or what?
...Right in the spirit in which he closed the interview:
Impressive little "throwaway project"!!
JA: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Rusty Russell: I love that noone needs my permission to take my code and do something cool with it, and someone else can do the same with that code. I love that an "end user" is usually only a few hours work away from being an active documenter, bugreporter, web-mistress or coder in most projects.
As a result, I despise anything which artificially raises barriers to entry for programmers and users. Everything from stupid software patents, to bad user interfaces, cabalesque knowledge and crummy code. These quotes highlighted the interview for me but the whole thing was great.
"..hot pluggable CPU support.."
So I can unplug the sucker while its po7HUD&*A))A
[NO CARRIER]
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- ARTHUR C. CLARKE, The Lost Worlds of 2001. (Dutton)
But he's a bad bad man when it comes to laptops. According to his ozlabs friends, he's destroyed more than anyone elses. This is a pictures of his powerbook G4 *sob* the poor thing.
...he might have fitted it with a split system, so the box itself is actually cool - it's only the other half of the split, sitting outside his (glass) window, that's radiating like fury.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
...then you'll have "steaming hot buttered pluggable CPU support, with real strawberries!"
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Ah... so Windows 2003 is running the same kernel as NT 4.0?
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Having just surfaced from recovering a dead OpenServer 5.0.5 system onto new hardware (a very Quixote experience), I feel compelled to say: "Amen, and amen!" Reconfigure a serial port? No worries, that's a kernel relink, and an environment rebuild, and... oh, yes, a reboot. It feel far to much like fixing MS-Windows.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
I will never forget the 1st chapter on the IpTables-howto. It writes: "Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel?" :)
This guy r0x0rz
My english is sow-sow. Sowhat?