What's the "DejaNews simplicity replaced by a Web 2.0 PITA which drives readers away and disperses fragments of technical knowledge across the Internet" date?
Not that I'm bitter.
-sigh-
I miss Usenet.
I still type Deja.com when I want to use it, but I can't find a lot of posts. It has become the proverbial piece.of.s__t. If only people took upon it themselves to maintain a proper public archive independent of Deja, some old backup data tapes, and G__gle.
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) -- Andy Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
From the same thread: If you write programs for linux today, you shouldn't have too many surprises when you just recompile them for Hurd in the 21st century. --Linus, in 1992
Be sure to check out the "Microsoft needs wizards" post.