Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
/* strangest things ever said, #6, to alan cox: "...and remember, alan * - no monkeybusiness. remember, i sleep nude and we dont want to * give rachel the shock of her life..." */ - comment in the Crack 5 source, file src/util/kickdict.c | |
David Brownell wrote: > AMD told me I'd need an NDA to learn their workaround, and I've not > pursued it. (Does anyone already know what kind of NDA they use?) It varies depending on the info. They may well be able to sort out a sane NDA with you. If they dont want to then I guess it would be best if the ohci driver printing a message explaining the component has an undocumented errata fix, gave AMD's phone number and refused to load.. - Alan Cox | |
Dennis wrote: > whatever you do dont buy a gigabit card with a small buffer and 32bits. > 32bits isnt enough to do gigabit, even with a large buffer. Never underestimate what will come out of Taiwan in massive quantities :) - Jeff Garzik about gigabit ethernet cards on linux-kernel | |
The only recomendation is "dont". - Alan Cox giving some recommendations for binary-only drivers | |
> Not that the kernel list is the best place to bring this up, but NVIDIA > would NOT be on that list. They are by far one of the best companies out > there providing support for their cards. I bought my GF2 for exactly that > reason too.... Sure. I spent much happy time telling people to report bugs to nvidia because their closed drivers mean that only nvidia can debug all the crashes people see with them loaded - at least some of which dont occur without the modules - Alan Cox on linux-kernel | |
> Andrew explicitely did not want to use DMI scanner. I didnt want intel to invent ACPI either. The realities in both cases dont match the goals - Alan Cox on the ACPI mailing list | |
<sel> need help: my first packet to my provider gets lost :-( <netgod> sel: dont send the first one, start with #2 | |
<frogbert> its hard being a lesbian withoutn breasts...people dont take you seriously | |
* HomeySan waits for the papa john's pizza to show up <ravenos> mm. papa john's. <HomeySan> hopefully they send the cute delivery driver <ravenos> they dont have that here. <Dr_Stein> why? you gonna eat the driver instead? | |
<miguel> `You have been unsubscribed from the high energy personal protection devices mailing list' <miguel> I dont remember getting into the mailing list | |
i dont even know if it makes sense at all :) This is an experimental patch for an experimental kernel :)) -- Ingo Molnar on linux-kernel | |
If loving linux is wrong, I dont wanna be right. -- Topic for #LinuxGER | |
<sel> need help: my first packet to my provider gets lost :-( <netgod> sel: dont send the first one, start with #2 * netgod is kidding |