Will someone warn me 2 minutes before Theo gets back? I'd like to have some popcorn ready. :-)
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Bob Beck <b...@ualberta.ca> wrote: >> Well, tinyurl redirects to my box which redirects to trollaxer. Here is >> the culprit log for falling for such a silly trick. >> >> 83.101.24.229 - - [15/Aug/2010:19:13:12 -0400] "GET /why.html HTTP/1.1" >> 200 136 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) >> Gecko/2009070118 Firefox/3.0.11" >> >> # host kd85.com >> kd85.com has address 83.101.24.229 >> >> # cat why.html >> <html> >> <head> >> <meta http-equiv="refresh" >> content="0;url=http://www.trollaxor.com/2010/06/why-i-left-openbsd.html" /> >> </head> >> >> </html> > > Nicely done David - I'm very impressed - as you know I mentioned > before this on hackers that this sounded very kd85 like - and you > confirmed my suspicions very effectively. > > Any time I see someone talking about "commit bits" I think of this and > laugh - as this is someone who has never done a commit to OpenBSD. > > The lies in the message that was sent are pretty good to - Were we in > the middle of a release cycle - were people cranky? Yes, absolutely - > you know what - sane people have disagreements - all the time. > > however. > > Machines were not turned off. > > Everyone still had access to what they were doing > > Was the tree locked? yes - as problems have been found in test and > need to be fixed. It's still locked - but we'll ship a good release > for that. > > The priceless one is how the wim calls for a "vote" - yeah - that > works real well for netbsd. > > and is also signing his messages "H" and "R" to decieve people as to > the real identity and to foster suspicion within the community I find > that particularly reprehensible - but not surprising. Nothing could > surpirse me from this source anymore. I get the impression that this > sort of behaviour is normal from Wim - it seems to make the same > amount of sense as kd85's normal business practices - Sorry I can't go > along with that. I pay my taxes, and I pay for my own house with my > own money. I encourage Wim to fork his own project that will be run > and funded fully, and openly, and accountable to all involved. I'm > sure it will be a resounding success.