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michael
on from the oh-christmas-tree dept.
BigFire writes "Professor Tanenbaum responds to the slashdot effect and a small critique of Ken Brown's forthcoming book in his followup. A small gem is where he disclosed that Ken Brown can't multiply simple positive integers."
"This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache."
Just when he thought it was over, here we come for another round. . .
On Wall Street, we called this technology "BOHICA": Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
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make install -not war
Raises some interesting questions
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Anonymous Coward
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Some of which are easier to answer than others:
Why did Brown fly all the way to Europe to interview me and (and according to an email I got from his seat-mate on the plane) one other person in Scandinavia, at considerable expense, and not at least call Linus?
I think the answer is "because calling Linus wouldn't have allowed Brown to get the Alex de Torqeville Institute to pay for him to take a vacation to Holland".
The Netherlands Connection is the key
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Vengeance
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There is no other way to explain the conclusions we've seen reported for this book, except that Brown spent a good deal of time in Amsterdam coffeehouses, consuming high-grade grass.
-- It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
Re:The Netherlands Connection is the key
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Flyboy+Connor
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This get me so irritated. People who immediately start yelling "drugs" when the Netherlands comes up. We have so many interesting other things! There is... uhm... (should not mention hookers here)... uhm...... I'll get back to you.
I resent that!
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Anonymous Coward
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Ken Brown is some guy who works for something called the "Alex de Torqueville" (sic?) institute and he's writing a book which appears to mostly consist of slander against Linus Tourvalds and/or the Free Software movement.
No it isn't, and I resent that! Slander is spoken. In print it's "Libel".
Sincerely,
Kenneth Brown President, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
1600 come from search-engine bots
450 come from kids attempting to compromise his apache server with IIS-specific exploits
350 come from a single female grad student who is all aflutter over AST's [micro-kernel] hacking skills.
75 come from accidentally mis-spelling 'whitehouse.gov'
24 come from/. users
1 comes from his mother.
Re:Arrogance
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Anonymous Coward
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Can't help it, but whenever I read something from Tanenbaum, I am thinking "oh my, is this guy arrogant".
Funny, I feel the same way when I read Slashdot.
Re:Changed opinion
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DJCouchyCouch
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So please,/.ers, stop thinking that you have to have an opinion on everything, even the things that you don't really know about.
Slashdot Mirror
Just when he thought it was over, here we come for another round. . .
Some of which are easier to answer than others:
Why did Brown fly all the way to Europe to interview me and (and according to an email I got from his seat-mate on the plane) one other person in Scandinavia, at considerable expense, and not at least call Linus?
I think the answer is "because calling Linus wouldn't have allowed Brown to get the Alex de Torqeville Institute to pay for him to take a vacation to Holland".
There is no other way to explain the conclusions we've seen reported for this book, except that Brown spent a good deal of time in Amsterdam coffeehouses, consuming high-grade grass.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
I got an advance copy of Ken Brown's book. I think it is still under embargo, so I won't comment on it
Ok, fair enought
Let's call it The Brown Book
So, why are you disclosing the color of the cover!?!? Baaad guy Andy :)
...by getting slashdotted again!
Please help metamoderate.
Ken Brown is some guy who works for something called the "Alex de Torqueville" (sic?) institute and he's writing a book which appears to mostly consist of slander against Linus Tourvalds and/or the Free Software movement.
No it isn't, and I resent that! Slander is spoken. In print it's "Libel".
Sincerely,
Kenneth Brown
President, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
Examining his home-page hit rate:
/. users
1600 come from search-engine bots
450 come from kids attempting to compromise his apache server with IIS-specific exploits
350 come from a single female grad student who is all aflutter over AST's [micro-kernel] hacking skills.
75 come from accidentally mis-spelling 'whitehouse.gov'
24 come from
1 comes from his mother.
Funny, I feel the same way when I read Slashdot.
So please, /.ers, stop thinking that you have to have an opinion on everything, even the things that you don't really know about.
But... but... that would BREAK Slashdot!
DJCC