Posted on 08/15/2003 10:30:34 AM PDT by HAL9000
Yes. Albert Pujols. :-)
No, you make a fool out of yourself every time you post.
Golf one-dimensional? Get real! :-) It's multi-dimensional aspects are what makes it a great game. That's why you don't see any of the long-drive champions on the PGA Tour. To succeed, no component of a pro's game can be lacking.
...Said Knitebane while doing the touchdown dance on his own 5 yard line.
Amusing. Pathetic, but amusing.
In addition, baseball teams might pick up players who are not the best at anything because they fill a need or because they are what the team can afford. It is too simple to claim that every baseball team signs the "best" players and it is too simple to claim that every software user picks the "best" software on technical merits.
Living or dead? And can he pitch?
And you deliver again.
And both of you are radically twisting and spinning this into something that it isn't. Let me sum up some of the facts for you.
js1138 stated that the Linux source server had been hacked.
I stated that it was not the Linux source server, but rather the FSF server.
TheEngineer jumped in and stated that GCC is on the FSF server.
I responded that, yes, it had, but GCC had not been compromised and that he should tell the whole story.
Then the both of you started your smear campaign, delivering many innuendos about how GCC might have been hacked but not one shred of evidence, even when I post evidence (you may disagree with it, but you haven't posted anything relevant discounting it either) that GCC and all other software on the FSF site is free of contamination.
The original post that I responded to was about Linux source code server. Get it yet?
It wasn't a smear. It was a correction to your misleading and inaccurate statement:
The hacked site wasn't "the Linux development servers," it was the Free Software Foundation FTP site. It houses no Linux core source code, only code for GNU userland tools.
I just correctly pointed out that FTP.GNU.ORG is home to GCC. GCC is the C Compiler that is used to create binaries for the Linux kernel and most server apps like Apache, OpenSSL, Perl, etc.. If a trojan were to be successfully inserted into GCC, then its effect would be felt on all kernels that are compiled with GCC. That includes the vast majority of Linux distributions.
Care to tell me why [the Mach and Hurd kernels would have been affected by a trojan-infected GCC]?
Because GCC is the most popular and important open source compiler in existence. A well-formed trojan inserted into GCC could infect any binary that it produces. If an infected GCC were used to build Mach and Herd kernels, then they would be affected, too.
I'll try small words this time.
ROFL! Like you know any other kind.
The only guys on the Cardinals who can pitch are Woody Williams and Jason Isringhausen. That's our problem. :-)
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