Ask Donald Becker

This is a "needs no introduction" introduction, because Donald Becker is one of the people who has been most influential in making GNU/Linux a usable operating system, and is also one of the "fathers" of Beowulf and commodity supercomputing clusters in general. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply, plus a special one for this interview only: "What if we made a Beowulf cluster of these?" is not an appropriate question.

If you could make..

[dknight]

If you could make a Beowulf cluster out of anything, what would it be and why?

Re:How to bring this up with your boss??

[Anonymous Coward]

Nerf guns. Lots of Nerf guns.

Seriously. If your bosses were putting that much effort and cash into the adoption of a common device that the rest of the world already uses, rational arguments just won't work.

Nerf guns.

Only one question

[gowen]

Do you ever regret leaving Steely Dan [steelydan.com]?

Re:Dear Don, does it suck not to be rich?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah. What most folks don't realize is that I own their box(es) thanks to some backdoor code in the drivers. I've got the worlds most powerful beowulf cluster at my fingertips, so money means very little to me. Believe me, if I wanted money I could take whatever I wanted.

-Don

Considering you're on the board at scyld..

[Havokmon]

Did you ever have anything to do with crynwr?
And why don't you people like vowels? :)

(Thanks for the ne2000 driver!)

Let's see if I can burn what little karma I have..

[DavyByrne]

What if we made a Beowulf cluster of Donald Becker?

Time to burn some karma...

[Loki_1929]

Donald Becker,

With all that you've accomplished to date, how much do you think a Beowulf cluster of Donald Beckers could accomplish?

So many packages.

[Anonymous Coward]

So Donald, how do you get your package
in so many peoples box?

Re:How to bring this up with your boss??

[swb]

I would think the first step would be to recognize that the people in management aren't pinheads.

Thanks for pointing that out. To clear things up, some are shitheads, waterheads, airheads and buttheads. Let's remember that there's a diversity of stupidity and a uniformity of idiocy in management.

Re:One question...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey! For once Beowulf references are on topic!