[nlug] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds facts

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Chaney
> I asked him what he would like to say to Bill Gates, but he wasn't the > least bit interested in even meeting the guy.  "There wouldn't be much > of a connection point, he reasoned.  "I'm completely unintersted in > the thing that he's the best in the world at.  And he's not interested > in the

[nlug] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds facts

2009-09-14 Thread Don Delp
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Don McMorris wrote: > > Good book, wasn't it? I was at a library conference in Boston back in 2006.   > On one of my down days, I started reading it... > And it was also about that time I realized there wasn't an "i" between the > "d" and "s" in his last name, li

[nlug] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds facts

2009-09-11 Thread Don McMorris
Good book, wasn't it? I was at a library conference in Boston back in 2006. On one of my down days, I started reading it... And it was also about that time I realized there wasn't an "i" between the "d" and "s" in his last name, like I'd been pronouncing all the years prior ;). On Fri, Sep 11, 20

[nlug] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds facts

2009-09-11 Thread David R. Wilson
I am sure it wasn't writing the driver that was the problem. It was finding the time to debug the routines. Dave On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 15:04 -0500, Jim Peterson wrote: > Being the sometimes librarian that I am, I've found a pretty good read > in Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolut

[nlug] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds facts

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Peterson
Being the sometimes librarian that I am, I've found a pretty good read in Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, a biography of Linus Torvalds. Too funny with the xorg.conf, tho. I wonder if he had to write his own driver? Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Lib