[ILUG] ILUG member gets slagging in LWN (fwd)

[Feargal Reilly]

Heh... Just imagine the psychosis of an MS built AI... Am I gonna crash? Am I? Huh? What't that sudden blue tint to my vision... argh!

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:42:54 +0000, Gavin McCullagh <gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie> wrote:

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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > Padraig also submitted the line or two of Perl code which does the job. We
> > > should have held Alan hostage until Linux agreed to run the script :-)
> > >
> > I hope you meant Linus, the idea of a self patching kernel is just too
> > freaky for me .. sounds like something MS will tell us XP does in a few
> > years..
> > 
> > Dave.
> 
> Scary thought alright, kernel patches itself, recompiles and reboots.
> Practically a sentient life-form.  Mind you, you think you're nervous
> rebooting with a newly compiled kernel, think how linux would feel?  It
> might never come back up?  Kernel Panic would be an understatement.
> 
> Gavin
> 
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