From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Ronald G Minnich References: <3e1162e60602020859u33554dces63757c4fdead9287@mail.gmail.com> <643d69652b15421ed5777b1d5b593599@vitanuova.com> <3e1162e60602021114mcb820feue424478b30f77d89@mail.gmail.com> <43E2D41E.2040307@lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <43E2D41E.2040307@lanl.gov> Subject: Re: [9fans] Van Jacobsen's network stack restructure Message-Id: <20060203040646.EC89378FB7@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:06:46 -0600 Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: f19fc64c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ron, having worked on stuff like this (on a little smaller scale), i don't think you need to be envious. huge is impressive for about so long. you get used to it. writing software is about ideas. ideas are always exciting --- there are always new ones. - erik Ronald G Minnich writes | p.s. I'm watching a great show on huge machines -- cranes, diggers, and | so on. This looks more fun than computers to me just now. This one crane | picked up the millenium bridge. Nice.