Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:10:57 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Cc: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? Message-ID: <4573.963868257@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:39:18 %2B0200." <20000717183918.A26484@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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In message <20000717183918.A26484@cichlids.cichlids.com>, Alexander Langer writ es: >Thus spake James Howard (howardjp@glue.umd.edu): > >> fairings? Why does it matter what color the bikeshed is? What does > >What is this thing with the bikesheds??? > >It appears on every place I am, on IRC, now here. > >As a non-native English-speaker, I'd like to know what's up with the >poor bikesheds. The poor ones :-( It's a reference to a particular apt description of how committees work and don't work from the excellent book: Parkinson's Law C. Northcote Parkinson Buccaneer Books ISBN 1-56849-015-1 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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