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Mountain Biking Helps Squash Bugs

Posted by timothy on from the so-do-big-grins dept.

Dr.Milius writes "Henning Brauer of the OpenBSD project recently made an interesting post to the openbsd-tech mailing list about how a mountain bike ride helped him relate two baffling bugs in their new BGP and NTP daemons. It turns out they were both off-by-one errors that were easy to fix but notoriously difficult to spot. Always great when the experts show us how it's done."

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  1. RTFB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ride the fucking bicycle.

  2. road bike.. by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder what effect a road bike would have upon bugs? I mean, one could go faster in the flats where bugs are likely to reside, but at the same time, wider tires would allow one to run over more ants. Oh, the dillemmas!

  3. taking a crap by endx7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm. Well, I did figure out how I wanted to implement a portion of my code when I was taking a crap recently.

    1. Re:taking a crap by r_j_howell · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had a good friend at school remark to me that ALL his best programming ideas came to him in the bathroom. Mine generaly don't. But you couldn't tell that from looking at some of the stuff I've churned out.

  4. Re:This is news? by c13v3rm0nk3y · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not the bike riding, it's the act of "taking a break from the problem."

    I'll second that. I do some of my best coding in the bathtub, sans the dangerous electronics, of course.

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  5. Re:Not new... by bondjamesbond · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and having sex works well - if you can get it, that is.

  6. Hummm.... by utlemming · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess that means that there is actually a Bikeshed. Who would have figured? And I thought that it was just proverbial...

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  7. Re:really stupid by sgant · · Score: 2, Funny

    sheesh, lighten up...

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