I think that was the first time I ever saw Tridge deliver a conference presentation and it was to a packed lecture theatre at the ANU.
He described how he 'hacked' BitKeeper by connecting to the server via telnet and using the sophisticated hacker tools at his disposal to convince Bitkeeper to divulge its secrets, he typed:
Every single action, including Telnet, including typing help, the nc command, was suggested by the audience with Tridgell prompting with a minimal “how are we going to find out…”
A bk client was hacked by the audience in 2 minutes.
It was the most devastating take down I’ve ever seen of the attacks. Linus later said the “git” wasn’t Tridgell at all, but in fact Linus himself.
I think that was the only lca Linus missed for a few years either side.
This article gave me unpleasant flashbacks to the first half of 2023. I resigned from planet.com in mid 2023 due to the stress caused by being on-call every second week. It took me six months to get my head into a healthy state again. Now I have a much better job, better paid and no possibility of on-call, ever.
When the Old Man shaking his fist at the Cloud is a former tech lead of OpenStack's Compute project Nova, I think it's worth paying attention.
His fist started shaking 4 years ago, but the most recent commit on GitHub was 4 hours ago. The fist is still shaking.
Make sure you do that floating effect (where part of the text 'rises' from the text) IE4 and some other early CHM files had when you opened it to show off that there was a browser engine underneath with full javascript and all :-)
The certs are more just to tick some checkboxes when working with certain enterprise clients (my guess).
I hate certs, but if you want in on certain projects, it doesn't hurt to have the desired certs, especially if you can get your employer to foot the bill.
Anyways, knowing him personally, I can attest he's a really good dev and wholesome person. Sad to see this site get bogged down with malicious activity, because like downforeveryoneorjustme, I kind of have it committed to muscle memory. Hope CloudFlare can keep it going strong!
Yeah he seems like an awesome dude and engineer/leader. Definitely will be following his blog now. Interestingly however, I had never heard of icanhazip before today. Had always used ifconfig.me.
The certs prove you have the knowledge, so you don't have to boast. I've only got one certificate (AWS generic one), and I underestimated how much you need to study for things like that. I mean that was more of a nice to have, I don't actually have aspirations to go into AWS or the "ops" side of things, I just felt like it was something I needed to know more about.
Yeah once your career is somewhat established, they don’t mean all that much. My RHCA (Administrator) aged out in 2017, and I’ve felt little need to renew it.
Just got the order in for the Seeed Studio board. I'm sure I have a good wait time with shipping but looking forward to replacing some Ubiquiti gear after their drama.
Thanks for the reply as it totally inspired me to build my own router like it's 2003 =)
I also had an emergency hospital visit a few months ago. Multiple X-Rays, a CT scan, two surgeries and innumerable drugs. I don't have health insurance. Cost to me? Zero.
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The room erupted with applause and laughter.