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I'm surprised he didn't add Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". It and the essays in "The Mythical Man Month" should really be required reading for anyone working on large projects, imho.

http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SoftwareEngineering/BrooksN... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

So, has anyone actually been able to find Roger Wallis' CV?

Here are some papers of his that a friend found: http://unjobs.org/authors/roger-wallis

Where's the engineer category? :)

http://www.textism.com/favrd : Read Favrd for a few days and you should get the hang of it. If you need a book, you're doing it wrong.

Since this is fast turning into a list of good mind-bending movies, I'm going to put a shout out for eXistenZ, as it always seems to be slightly overlooked.

Also, most of Lynch's non-Dune stuff would fit in this category.

I thought it was a surprisingly good interview until I got to that bit. The unnecessary 4 Freedoms rant should have tipped me off I suppose.

autossh + key auth is probably what you want: http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ . Added to screen it's a very nice combination.

I think strong identity is going to be how this sort of thing is eventually settled. Email addresses is fine, but there are plenty of sites which provide a means of getting a throw-away address. Maybe mimicking how banks and governments handle it and requesting N out of M different kinds of identity might help?

It might discourage drive-by trolling, but it does nothing to stop the more determined griefer. If anything they'll see it as a challenge.

kuro5hin.org did more or less exactly this and it pretty much killed the site. Growth reversed, and the trolls and spammers turned out to be willing to pay. Personally I'm in favour of enforcing strong identity so that folks reputations follow them around.

That being said, it does seem to have worked for Something Awful.

Sigh. Why submit this pointless troll of an article when the LWN article it cites has actual information, content and details?