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The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum

Posted by Hemos on from the revealed dept.

A reader writes: " www.electoral-vote.com, a site of daily updated maps of the US electoral college based on a number of polls is probably a site that the policially inclined check daily. Well, it has been revealed that the person behind the site, AKA the votemaster, is none other than Andrew Tanenbaum, noted author of numerous CS books." He's also known for a little discussion with someone named Linus Torvalds.

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  1. Nothing for you to see here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please move along. BTW, Frist Prost!

  2. frist pr0sto!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    0wn4d

  3. 1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WOOT !

  4. The Votemaster is... Nerds! by MooKore+2004 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Disclaimer: By reading, viewing, downloading, moderating, replying or ignoring this post, you agree that YOU ARE A FUCKING NERD! THIS GOES DOUBLE IF MODERATED -1! YOU ARE FUCKING NERDS! Admit it use FreeBSD using GNU/Hippies who like doing penguins up the ass. You all have no life and thatis why you have a one metre beard and you have a BMI of 60! That is why Bill Gates is a billionare while Lunix nerds are unemployed reading slashdot all day! Slashdot sucks, and that's a encylopedic FACT!

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  5. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I didnt RTFA.

    But i got the first post!!!!!

    LALALAALLALALALA

    Im such a llama :)

  6. Re:Worldwide results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Mod me flamebait, if you wish

    Looks like the mods couldn't resist ;-) I thought it was an interesting comment, personally.

  7. I posted this by waffffffle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My first slashdot news contribution, but I missed out. Someone else got to it first. Oh well.

  8. oh ho ho ho... by Valar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bet you're wishing you went with that macrokernel now, eh?

    Ok, so actually the site is running Linux/Apache/mod_php.

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  9. evp... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    of 1tS core and I probably

  10. After reading the debate... by piecewise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    between Tanenbaum and Torvalds, I've discovered that Linus Torvalds really is a dick.

    Tanenbaum talked about the merits and critiqued what he saw as flaws of the Linux system. Torvalds ranted about how much Tanenbaum's project "sucks." What a complete dick.

    Anyway, it's good to learn new things about Linus. :)

    Electoral-Vote.com is a fantastic web site - especially if you look at the Averaged Polls version (linked from the home page) because it pulls together different state-wide polls and moves them together. Not exactly scientific - but it gives you a better glimpse of where things are moving.

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  11. Obligatory Linus vs. Tanenbaum Link by smcdow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is a link to a nice summary of the famous discussion in comp.os.minix between Tanenbaum and Linus over Microkernel vs Monolithic System architectures.

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