From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 17 14:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC66137BDFA; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04575; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:10:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Cc: James Howard , Ben Smithurst , Brian Somers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:39:18 +0200." <20000717183918.A26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:10:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4573.963868257@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-arch" in the body of the message