User: toaster

Don't forget Dune!

On: Sci Fi Literature 101?

No Sci-fi list would be complete without the masterfull work of Frank Herbert. Dune is as vital as The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by RAH or Crystal Singer by Ann McAfree(sp?). I went so far as vacationing to Death Valley after reading for the first time. Hell, I could stand to kick some Harkonen butt right now. -Toaster

OpenBSD speed

On: OpenBSD can encrypt swapspace

I don't know about anybody else but I wish OpenBSD
would do a performance audit to go along with their much touted security audit. I just switched
to NetBSD x86 and noticed a substantial speed improvement. I also like the lack of hype and commitment to clean code. The userland tool chain
is very polished. Now I just have to figure out
how to burn CD-Rs from my atapi CD-RW. Last I heard cdrecord didn't like anything but scsi.
-Toaster

Intercal Servers

On: Ask Eric S. Raymond Anything

Why not just rewrite the HURD servers in INTERCAL? It would
do a lot for their clarity.

Plan9 has no root

On: Linux Lite?

From what I understand about plan9, it was able
to function quite nicely w/out any concept of a
root user. I'm confident that a kernel developer
with too much free time could be convinced into
sending a patch. Of course then I might be
talking out my ass and none of this is really
possible.

GTKMacs

On: egcs to become gcc

Emacs w/ GTK+ support would be soooo nice.