* [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? [not found] ` <5322d5c7-bad2-b02c-8059-8e5f8d4ac3e3@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> @ 2022-09-10 10:32 ` David Arnold 2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: David Arnold @ 2022-09-10 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: Pete Wright via TUHS [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1163 bytes --] The error was introduced on 13 September 2005, by an anonymous user from an IP address allocated to Web Perception, a Californian ISP, and (currently) geolocated to Sonoma. The change comment was: Changes - 386BSD factual errors corrected, potentially libelous statements removed, links updated, refocus on 386BSD history, authority-386BSD authors, published works, DMR refs The same IP address was used for a series of edits over 2005-2006, to topics including 386BSD, Lynne Jolitz, William Jolitz, and Radiocarbon Dating. I imagine it was simply a mistake. d > On 10 Sep 2022, at 12:26, Grant Taylor via COFF <coff@tuhs.org> wrote: > > On 9/9/22 8:05 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Done. > > Thank you! > >> Do you have an idea about how this error crept in? > > No, I do not. > > I came to this article after reading about the DDJ DVD archive on the geeks mailing list. I was sensitive to the emails about DDJ because I've been looking to acquire the issues (or at least articles) with the Porting Unix to the 386 articles in them. > > Now I have them! :-D > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2345 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? 2022-09-10 10:32 ` [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? David Arnold @ 2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS 2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin 2022-09-10 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Grant Taylor via TUHS @ 2022-09-10 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: tuhs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 345 bytes --] On 9/10/22 4:32 AM, David Arnold wrote: > I imagine it was simply a mistake. I naively assumed it was an off-by-one / fat-finger / typo intending to type seventeen. A slightly modified, nicer, form of the common quote: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by mistake. -- Grant. . . . unix || die [-- Attachment #2: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature --] [-- Type: application/pkcs7-signature, Size: 4017 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? 2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS @ 2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin 2022-09-10 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Kenneth Goodwin @ 2022-09-10 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 607 bytes --] Not sure where Bill Jolitz lived during that time period. But considering the scope of the changes, I would suspect that perhaps he might have been the author of such changes. On Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 1:15 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote: > On 9/10/22 4:32 AM, David Arnold wrote: > > I imagine it was simply a mistake. > > I naively assumed it was an off-by-one / fat-finger / typo intending to > type seventeen. > > A slightly modified, nicer, form of the common quote: Never attribute > to malice that which is adequately explained by mistake. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 943 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? 2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS 2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin @ 2022-09-10 23:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey 2022-09-11 1:18 ` Erik E. Fair 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2022-09-10 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: tuhs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 935 bytes --] On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 11:12:01 -0600, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote: > On 9/10/22 4:32 AM, David Arnold wrote: >> I imagine it was simply a mistake. > > I naively assumed it was an off-by-one / fat-finger / typo intending to > type seventeen. > > A slightly modified, nicer, form of the common quote: Never attribute > to malice that which is adequately explained by mistake. This is pretty much Hanlon's razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor): never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity Does anybody know if the Robert Hanlon to which the saying was attributed was the Bob Hanlon that I knew at Tandem? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 163 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? 2022-09-10 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2022-09-11 1:18 ` Erik E. Fair 2022-09-11 2:48 ` Deborah Scherrer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Erik E. Fair @ 2022-09-11 1:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey; +Cc: Grant Taylor, tuhs I have a counter to Hanlon's Razor: "The effects of any sufficiently advanced stupidity are *indistinguishable* from malice." "Is he evil or just stupid?" "Who cares? We still have a mess to deal with." Erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? 2022-09-11 1:18 ` Erik E. Fair @ 2022-09-11 2:48 ` Deborah Scherrer 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Deborah Scherrer @ 2022-09-11 2:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: tuhs Ah, good one... Deborah On 9/10/22 6:18 PM, Erik E. Fair wrote: > I have a counter to Hanlon's Razor: > > "The effects of any sufficiently advanced stupidity are > *indistinguishable* from malice." > > "Is he evil or just stupid?" > > "Who cares? We still have a mess to deal with." > > Erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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