KernelTrap: Interview with Larry McVoy. "RCS wasn't an option, RCS is an awful file format. SCCS can do lots of things that RCS can't even think of doing. A good example is "cvs annotate". To do that, they convert an RCS file to an SCCS file in memory and then run the annotate code. Seems like that should have told them something." [Hack the Planet]

Usually when I do a dirty hack, I just todo/comment and move on, with the intent of coming back to it. I've been thinking a lot about the hacks/mistakes I've made in my thesis. None are show-stoppers, just things which could be improved: Deferred, but that just means Won't Fix in this case.

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kids these days probably don't even know what line noise is [Hack the Planet]

Probably not...

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Liberty Alliance expands membership. The project, which seeks to establish a standard method for online identifications, gains five new members, boosting Sun's effort to outgun Microsoft's Passport system. [CNET News.com]

"The Alliance has yet to release a specification for how its technology will work. ... In contrast, the number of Microsoft Passport users jumped to 14 million, from 7 million, between last August and February..."

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