I think I came in too late for Awful Albatross.
Was that back in the day when you had to knit your own ethernet cables?
RC
On 15 January 2012 11:20, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hampshire-bounces@??? [mailto:hampshire-
> > bounces@???] On Behalf Of Keith Edmunds
> > Sent: 15 January 2012 11:04
> > To: hampshire@???
> > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags (was: Re: Help! I'm
> > buying a laptop.)
>
> [snip]
>
> > This is true of LUG lists in general, not just this one.
>
> It's interesting that this should crop up now - or coincidental at the
> least. Several years ago, I used to read Alan Cox's blog - though I
> confess I couldn't make much sense of it. His wife's blog was quite
> interesting too. He stopped several years ago but yesterday, I thought it
> might be fun to see what he's doing now so hunted around a bit and came
> across [1] via wikipedia.
>
> I wasn't part of the original "incident" (or whatever you want to call it)
> on this list but [1] really shows just how things can escalate over email.
> Here we have the grand daddy of the entire OS which spawned our list IMHO
> really having a go at someone for whom if I was ever mentioned in the same
> breath I'd be satisfied. I don't take sides as I don't know either AC or
> LT personally - but what I will say is I suspect all of this could have
> been
> sorted out with a phone call and a beverage of some description.
>
> Email is great - but by goodness things can escalate out of hand - and that
> is not a backhanded criticism of anyone on this list - just meant to show
> that even the "greatest" of us can have a barney over email. If you read
> other articles it seems that AC got so fed up - he walked away from kernel
> hacking.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373
>
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