From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 16 17:42:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21774 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA21758 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from xmission.com [199.104.124.49] by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xi8Uc-0001hC-00; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:41:47 -0700 Message-ID: <34972F80.13B17608@xmission.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:48:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John S. Dyson" CC: Ken.Monville@FergInc.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux References: <199712161800.NAA00459@dyson.iquest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John S. Dyson wrote: > I have added it to my signature line: how do you like it? :-). > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, and > jdyson@nc.com | it irritates the pig. :-). Looks good. I believe, as another user pointed out, this is a quote from the character Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's _Time Enough for Love_. My .sig came from a horrible software development project I worked on a couple of years ago. Another engineer and I were given the task of completely rewriting a 200,000 line (or so) video routing switcher (as used in TV stations) to perform 40x faster, RIGHT NOW. It took use nearly a year, but we got it done. We ended up with 66,000 lines of rather nicely structured C++ that had most of the functionality of the original, and a few features you could *never* implement in the original. We both quit when our employer decide that rather than use this code as the basis for a new release, they would just shelve it as a custom one-off. Doh! So anyhow, I walked into my office one morning and my partner in crime, Mark Matthews, had written this on the top of my whiteboard. It stayed there until I left the company 9 months (and nearly 3600 hours) later. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com