Quotes of the week

Do you know why Unix was a success and MULTICS a failure? It's because Unix had mode bits and MULTICS had ACLs. Fortunately for those of us who wear titles like "Security Expert" or "Trust Technologist" with pride there are enough clinical paranoids in positions of authority to keep the Trusted System niche from closing up completely and hence supporting our Rock Star Lifestyles. The good news is that the situation is no worse than that faced by the people who are bringing you Infiniband or Itanium, neither of which will ever be the life of the party either. Sure security is important, but I learned (in college, and yes they had colleges way back then) not to drink too much at parties I'd crashed.

Please always prepare and test patches against the latest kernel. 2.6.23 is very much _not_ the latest kernel - there is a 50MB diff between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc1. That's a lot of difference.

Rule #1 in kernel programming: don't *ever* think that things actually work the way they are documented to work.