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…why you should never, never, *never* patch code that you do not understand fully…

http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c?rev=141&view=diff&r1=141&r2=140&p1=openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c
And that is why you report bugs to upstream and let those that know what they are doing, sort them out. Not someone with a half-wit for a brain.
Random patching and “improvement” of code is evil. End of story.
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, my ass. Look at all the debian, and debian related […]

14 May 2008 | Rants, Netstuff | No Comments

Duh! Just a thin sheet of aluminum?

Why should I buy a thin, expensive laptop which can not play a DVD on the plane?
I want a MacBook Pro with a docking station. Come on, Steve, show some love to the not so hip generation that actually works with your computers.

16 January 2008 | Rants | No Comments

Argh. Matrox.

So I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 for my workstation. Which comes with the Xorg 1.0.1 server. For those of you who are blessed enough to use a system where video drivers are a non issue (because every card is well supported: Windows or only a few cards are actually available: Mac), let me tell […]

20 May 2006 | Rants, Code | 1 Comment

What the heck _is_ wrong with this country?

SPD 34,2% (-4,3%)
CDU/CSU 35,2% (-3,3%)
Green Party 8,1% (-0,5%)
FDP 9,8% (+2,4%)
Communists 8,7% (+4,7%)
Clear messages sent by the people to the politicians:
“We want to get rid of the current government, but we don’t want a different government.”
“We don’t want any changes but the parties proposing the biggest changes win.”
“40 years of dictatorship in the east aren’t enough. […]

19 September 2005 | Rants, Personal | 1 Comment

This is why this country goes down the drains…

What do you get when a world wide global player in ERP and e-commerce solutions and the leading german telco and internet provider team up to build a ticketing solution based on the web application solution platform from the largest and most profitable software company in the world?
To build a ticketing solution for the […]

31 August 2005 | Rants, Code | No Comments

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