From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 15:21:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110903152139.3e36d029@rohan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109031409.15853.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:09:15 +0100
Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:40:52 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:05:33 +0100
> >
> > Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along.
>
> > "The mythical man-month" by Brooks perfectly describes akonadi, they
> > went right ahead and made every mistake in the book, especially all
> > the ones solved in the 70s already,...
>
> What? Is that old dog still around? I read it about 20 years ago.
It might be old but every word in it is still just as true as the day
it was written. Nothing else has come close to doing it like Brooks.
I found my copy in a tiny out of the way junk shop in a place called
Memel (at the arse end of the world), priced at about a cup of coffee.
A treasured find indeed :-)
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 21:04 [gentoo-user] systemd Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-17 22:54 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-08-20 20:22 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-20 20:54 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-08-21 17:07 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 8:26 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 9:54 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 10:26 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-22 10:31 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 11:42 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-22 16:55 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 17:03 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-22 18:24 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 18:29 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-22 21:09 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-23 6:27 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-23 8:30 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-23 9:04 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-23 9:17 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-23 9:22 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-23 22:00 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-24 7:03 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-23 6:27 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-23 17:17 ` Stroller
2011-08-23 17:49 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-23 18:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-23 19:06 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-23 19:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-23 19:50 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-23 20:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-23 20:32 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-24 21:19 ` [gentoo-user] systemd walt
2011-08-24 21:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-23 20:16 ` [gentoo-user] systemd Sebastian Beßler
2011-08-23 20:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-23 21:10 ` kashani
2011-08-23 21:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-24 4:15 ` Dale
2011-08-24 7:10 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-30 11:56 ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-30 12:13 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-08-30 15:11 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-30 23:01 ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-30 23:18 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-01 21:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-01 22:32 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-01 23:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-02 7:33 ` Mick
2011-09-02 15:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-03 0:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-03 7:56 ` Mick
2011-09-03 8:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-03 9:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-03 9:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-03 10:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-03 13:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-03 13:21 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-09-03 23:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-04 0:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-04 0:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-04 9:33 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-31 13:13 ` [gentoo-user] systemd walt
2011-10-11 20:27 ` [gentoo-user] systemd Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-11 21:04 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-11 21:33 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-11 22:23 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-11 22:39 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-11 22:47 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-11 22:49 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-04 16:15 [gentoo-user] Systemd siefke_listen
2017-11-04 16:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-04 20:30 ` siefke_listen
2011-08-16 0:28 [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered Adam Carter
2011-08-16 1:48 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-16 17:06 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-16 20:58 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-16 21:06 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-16 23:24 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-17 14:04 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-17 14:47 ` [gentoo-user] systemd (was: NASDAQ is gentoo powered) Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-17 15:00 ` [gentoo-user] systemd Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-17 16:00 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-17 18:48 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-08-17 19:20 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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