Uncle Sam Thanks You For Fixing The Internet

Andrew Fried posted the following to the NANOG list today:

I have been following the various threads relating to Verisign and
wanted to make one comment that I feel has been missing. Simply put, I would
like to publicly express my appreciation to Mr. Vixie for taking the time to
add the "root-delegation-only" patch for Bind. I'm fairly new to NANOG, but
I'm sure that others beside myself also feel a thank you is appropriate.

Who is Andrew Fried? He's a Senior Special Agent for the U.S. Treasury
Department. Furthermore, he's Treasury Inspector General for Tax
Administration.

Needless to say, I find this kind of public statement regarding Verisign (and the global A record/SiteFinder debacle) pretty cool, especially
considering that the Treasury Department is also the home of the Secret
Service.

Compressed Hate Mongering

For some reason, Gale is a laugh riot today.

Ok, sure. bzip2 -- it's nice if you're only sharing single tar files (or uuencoded photoshopped pngs of Bill Gates, encrusted with some kind of humor-repelling nerd juices)... Well, it's nice if you're sharing that crap with your geek sewing circle back in Dorksylvania, but when you try and share your nerd porn with real people, you'll fail utterly. "Download Cygwin!" you might say. Hah. You might as well be speaking Esperanto.

-- Brad Threatt

Say Goodbye!

Somewhere deep inside the secret headquarters of the RedHat/GNOME/Ximian/Mozilla Cabal, there's a hidden document with a list of everything in Unix you know and love, marked with a date for its final expurgation. I think 'ls' is slated to be finally replaced with a symlink to 'nautilus' in 2007. Except that symlinks will have been replaced by ".shortcut" files, which are interpreted by the Mono implementation of GNOME-VFS.

-- Dan Egnor