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My two favourite quotes of today, by Daniel Hommel:

1) <homsn> i think violence is wrong, but sometimes it's the only way...

2) <homsn> hmm money is root of all evil

Ok, YAFFS site just added a link to my patch, http://www.aleph1.co.uk/yaffs/. I didn't announce it before, 'cause I'm not satisfied with it yet. Now it's there to save anyone else from writing the same thing. I hope I will get time to work on it later.

I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence.

LCA oom-killer v2.2.1 is near. I'll flush it out at any time probably.

OK, oom lca killer v2.2 released. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/2/150

A special place in hell for realplayer at http://www.bash.org/?478519 and also from the same guy some amusing pics.

It seems to me that phpBB is a lot like M$. They force people to upgrade, and upgrade, and upgrade... Always for good security reasons, of course. They don't even appear to have the capability to use diff and patch.

I don't have enough time to improve my oom killer patch. I'm busy with my realty business, which will bring me more money than years hard working as an employee. Probably I'll never seriously work back in software except work on the linux kernel. Hackers, if you think you are not being well rewarded, consider resigning from your software job!

Someone said to me that trying to do searches faster, but without extra memory allocations is a typical Microsoft interview question. Well, I do it by carefully programming ...

I'm working on my oom-killer swapping part. It'll be v2.2. v1.x isn't public. v2.1 is at http://lwn.net/Articles/129286/