Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:08:36 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011211070836.A36258@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20011211054818.A5471@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:48:19AM -0600 References: <20011210155924.A1542@sheol.localdomain> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011210170942.4035Z-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20011210173206.A1795@sheol.localdomain> <20011211061406.C35343@blackhelicopters.org> <20011211054818.A5471@sheol.localdomain>
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:48:19AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > J D, you have an idea. > > "D J", actually. But "Dave" or "Hawk" gets my attention faster. Mea culpa. Please blame this on four hours sleep, followed by four hours blindly running Oracle's "adpatch" before the DBAs arrive... Personally, I respond to just about anything, including "Hey, Loser!" > > In fact, if you do it well, you might even find a vaguely well-known > > BSD columnist picking up your site in a future article. > > Ack. Don't do that. Sooner or later, the economy will pick up again, I'll > get myself the badly-needed job I lost, and my play-time will once again > be reduced by a factor of four. The last thing I'll need then is any kind > of publicity. Well, hang on here a second. I'd say you want publicity for exactly that reason. Eventually, you'll move on to other things. We want someone else to pick up when you depart. I strongly recommend you plan for your successor to come along. Don't worry about who that person is, just leave them an opening. Some poor slob who is hooked on your service will have no choice but to handle it when you're too busy to, and the whole community will benefit. :) For example, I'm working on the FAQ right now. If you check various parts of the FAQ, you'll see that they were originally maintained by jkh, nik, and a long list of other people, all at different times. They would want someone to pick up where they left off. At some point, someone will succeed me as the FAQ "interested party". ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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