Quotes of the week

All that aside, yes, I have seen timeouts used in cases where investing a little more thought might have provided a better solution. Then again, the same is true of pretty much all other facilities provided by the Linux kernel. ;-)

Let's have a rule that TLA's [three-letter acronyms] are ok _only_ for things that

• (a) go back at least four decades
• (b) have a basically unambiguous meaning in the industry (let's ignore IBM that made up their own naming)
• (c) when you google them, they give relevant results

So, for example, talking about a "TLB" entry is ok by all three rules, and a TTY is similarly not a bad word.