Friday January 21, 2005
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Friday January 21, 2005
Gathering of the comp.unix.solaris mavens
Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu meet-and-greet tour of the building where much of the Solaris core engineering teams work. At one point, we ran into Casper Dik, Solaris FAQ maintainer and designer of Solaris 10's new privilege model, who was also here on a visit. Of course, I couldn't help thinking that were an asteroid to hit the building right then, the volume of traffic on the comp.unix.solaris Usenet newsgroup would plummet. (If their names aren't both well known to you, you probably don't read the Solaris newsgroups much, as they are two of the most active posters, having both answered thousands of questions from Solaris users and even getting in the occasional argument when some troll looking for fun crossposts inflammatory materials to both the Solaris and the Linux advocacy newsgroups.)
Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a picture of us all together... [Technorati Tag: Solaris] [Technorati Tag: Usenet]Posted at 06:01PM Jan 21, 2005 by Alan Coopersmith in Solaris |
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