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Where the hell was Q-Bert during all this?


By Blackwalt - Posted on 13 May 2008

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Gizmodo reports: Twenty Five Year Old Unix Bug Finally Fixed.

    We're not sure why nobody's caught this bug until now, but OpenBSD developer Marc Balmer has just closed the book on a 25-year-old flaw affecting BSD file systems.

Stormblade's picture

But you know that Q-Bert's solution would have been a complete rewrite of Unix, because why go with a simple solution?

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Blackwalt: Q-Bert, do you have that video card working yet and are you going to join us playing Quake?

Q-Bert: Hang on, I just need to recompile the card's firmware, be there in 5 ...

MauriceRevek's picture

He had to download his kernel and recompile so often. With all of these bugs in the code, it's a wnder it is even working at all.

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