On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Also, as very well explained in The Cathedral & The Bazaar, finding the bugs
> is usually the hardest part, and getting lots of eyes looking for bugs is
> one of the big benifits of open source...actually fixing a well defined bug
> is usually pretty trivial (or at least tends to be straight-forward...even
> if you have to re-architect the whole program, at least you know WHY).
Not to mention that other benefit. If a thousand people are using it, one
is likely to find a bug. Hence beta testing. If those same thousand people
are ALSO doing development work on it, chances are ONE of them - usually
not the one who found the bug - are going to be able to fix it with maybe
5 minutes and two lines worth of code. That's the theory anyways. Practice
makes it 15 minutes and 10 lines worth of code, from what I hear. =)
Oh yeah. And it's free(beer). =)
> > A small step further onto the updated eigerstein ;)
>
> Hooray!!!
Excellent. I may have, if I put my ass in gear and actually slot the cards
in, finally a functional testbox. This weekend I stole my father's old P60
with 24 megs of RAM in it. It's ASTOUNDING how much of a difference that 8
megs and a Pentium makes. No more delays on SSH or weblet, oidentd
responds instantaneously, very pretty.
So suddenly, I've got a 486/66 with 16 megs in it sitting there doing
nothing. And I've got a couple of ISA cards in the other room. sounds like
a testbed platform to me. If I can get it up and running any time soon,
I'll be monkeying with stuff a bit more, and might actually toss out some
of those ideas I've been having as packages. And I'd be more than willing
to test some of Erik's work on it too. =)
--
George Metz
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"We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destruction' during
the Cold War. But what is deterrence in information warfare?" -- Brigadier
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