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Back in 2008, I discovered a bug in the BSD filesystem that has been there for more than 25 years, in all of the major BSDs, read the whole story here: The other day, I got an email from Edd, an OpenBSD user, claiming that Samba would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. This was Samba built from sources and not the one from ports. Since I use myself Samba a lot and for a quite large user base, I got interested in the issue and started investigating it. What I found out in the end is a surprise and was not expected: A bug that has been there in all BSDs for almost all the time, ...

I am soon going to be 70 years old. Some of my senior friends say there is no Santa Claus. It seems to me that, still being a kid at heart and not real keen to "act my age," I think it is just fine to believe in all sorts of things. I don't have to be able to see something or have to touch it to think it could be real. At the Festival of Trees this year, I watched as people of all ages came in to that Christmas Wonderland. It wasn't just the children that had their eyes wide open and expressing all sorts of excitement.