OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

Tue Dec 29 12:35:21 MST 2009

Everyone in PDX became famous....
I also know:

Fyodor nmap.org  http://insecure.org/presentations/BHDC08/
Feedle.net Phreaker Presenter at DEFCON 6
Randal Schwartz Perl Stonehenge.com
Alan Montgomery 2600.com (and federal prison)
John Heasley Shrubbery Networks  http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/stats/7A774C09.html
Randy Bush IPV6 Taskforce  http://www.ipv6.org.sa/workshop/speakers/randy
Tom Christianson http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/407
Larry Wall http://www.wall.org/~larry/

and in PHX:
Mitch Frazier LinuxJournal
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-extended-globbing
Scott Ruecker - Editor-in-Chief LXer.com
Hans [Whatever his last name is] ABLEconf
Ryan Rix Fedora
http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com/msg10573.html

</shameless name dropping>

On 12/29/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> That makes two people you know who "knows Linus".
>
> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   I met someone who lives in Scottsdale (native Finn) that claims to
>> know him.  -jmz
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>> wrote:
>>> "But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their
>>> suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part
>>> of the process."  -Eric S. Raymond, OSDL co-founder and president
>>> emeritus
>>>
>>> Of course, Raymond was discussing Open Source Licensing Initiatives,
>>> not Linus' chair.
>>>
>>> The whole cubicle smelled like a well washed Finnish child, cleverly
>>> disguised as a responsible adult, playing in FOSS heaven, which was
>>> OSDL in the early 2000's.
>>>
>>> Actually, Torvalds' worked from home as a fellow for the Open Source
>>> Development Lab, then a corporate-funded consortium created to foster
>>> improvements to Linux.  Linus rarely worked from his cubicle, his
>>> brand new desk and chair smelled of fine modern fiber weave....
>>>
>>> Linus sightings are common in Oregon.  When I attended LinuxCon 2009,
>>> he still smelled like childish enthusiasm, health and FOSS heaven.
>>>
>>> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> you smelled his chair?
>>>>>
>>>>>  were all wondering: what did it smell like?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   penguins is not an acceptable answer here btw.  -jmz
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  -jmz
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> interesting :-P
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold
>>>>>> <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a
>>>>>>> contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon:
>>>>>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's me in the front row:
>>>>>>>  http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:
>>>>>>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Will_The_Fake_Linus_Torvalds_Please_Stand_Up_VIDEO
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>   I saw this on slashdot I think.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Long Live Linus.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   -jmz
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 :
>>>>>>>>>> [quote:]
>>>>>>>>>> <blockquote>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Glyn Moody writes"Today is the birthday of Linus. Just under 19
>>>>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>>>>> ago,
>>>>>>>>>> on the first day the shops in Helsinki were open after the
>>>>>>>>>> holidays,
>>>>>>>>>> Linus
>>>>>>>>>> rushed out and spent all his Christmas and birthday money on his
>>>>>>>>>> first
>>>>>>>>>> PC: a
>>>>>>>>>> DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40
>>>>>>>>>> Megabyte
>>>>>>>>>> hard
>>>>>>>>>> disc. Today, the kernel he wrote on that system powers 90% of the
>>>>>>>>>> fastest
>>>>>>>>>> supercomputers, and is starting to find its way into more and
>>>>>>>>>> more smartphones — not to mention everything in between. What
>>>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> world look like had he spent his money on something else?"
>>>>>>>>>> </blockquote>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It appears that some of the above text, is actually from
>>>>>>>>>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus --
>>>>>>>>> (which
>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> pointed to, by the first underlined (clickable) hyper-link in the
>>>>>>>>> /.
>>>>>>>>> article quoted above -- that is, the "Just under 19 years ago"
>>>>>>>>> link).
>>>>>>>>>       I just read that longer item
>>>>>>>>> (from http://www.linuxjournal.com/).
>>>>>>>>>  Pretty interesting.
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>>>>> Glendale  AZ
>>>>>>>>> schwartz at acm.org
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