Views on software from Bryan Cantrill's deck chair The Observation Deck

Wednesday Jun 16, 2004

Thanks to those of you who joined us for the Expert Exchange this morning. Adam and I were typing furiously trying to keep up with all of your questions! In fact, we were typing so furiously that about a third of the way into the session, the "y" key on my laptop stopped working. No capital Y, no lower-case y, no y's whatsoever! Panicky, I tried about four sentences with a y in the X cutbuffer (pasting when I needed a y), but I discovered that -- like many of the letters that you wouldn't pick first on Wheel of Fortune -- y's frequency is still sufficiently high to make living without it nearly impossible. (Three y's in that last clause alone!) So I took out my car keys, pried off my "y" key, took off the hard plastic mechanism underneath it, and discovered that I could still get a y if I prodded the soft plastic underbelly of what used to be my "y" key. I picked up midsentence of the answer I was working on, and (fortunately) I made it through the rest of the chat without losing any other letters...

Anyway, hopefully you got a chance to ask that nagging question you had on DTrace. If you didn't, don't worry -- just head over to the DTrace forum and post it over there. Having said that, it looks like someone just did; off to the forum...
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