[TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[David Arnold]

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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.



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> 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
> 


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[TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[Grant Taylor via TUHS]

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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


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[TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[Kenneth Goodwin]

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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
>
>

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[TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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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
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[TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[Erik E. Fair]

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

[TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?

[Deborah Scherrer]

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