That is a good point: timothy did not specify whether his authentication was based on password or key. Password-based authentication is more susceptible to brute-force attacks on weak passwords.

Timothy, if you are you are using password (keyboard-based) authentication you should stop, now. The number of times you log in should not matter nearly as much as your authentication method and OpenSSH version. If you are using key-based authentication with OpenSSH > 2.3 (hmac-md5 instead of hmac-sha1) you should be o.k..

(After looking at Enano CMS.)
No one else mentioned this but for utility, as a user, I would also look for:

• no beta level; there must be production-level version (if you achieved that level already then change the name but it must have all the bugs ironed out for the most common use cases).

Correction (for my last post): Google paper was 2004, not 1994... probably the same mistake the Patent Office made...

Before Google there was MPI -- parts of the standard are Reduce, ALLReduce and Reduce_scatter, to name a few. The MPI 1.1 standard (1995) precedes the Google paper (1994). What Google patented was a complete system based on this principle so at best what they patented was a particular implementation. So in the end the best enforcing this would be like enforcing the "Multiple Desktop" implementation.

Zed does not distinguish between probability and statistical inference. He describes measurements that have been taken -- making inferences from data. He only mentions statistics in the context of inferring what happened rather than model the probability of an event happening in the future. That is only part of the problem in programming where, ideally, you should have 100% certainty, in the absence of exceptional situations (machine loses power, runs out of memory), that given the same inputs your program will produce the same outputs.

I agree with an implicit part of his rant: too many people (men and women) tend to rationalize intellectual laziness. Based on my own experience with people holding doctoral degrees in physics and mathematics, I have to say Zed sounds like he is in an "enterprise" situation where people can be lazy. Perhaps he would be happier in another workplace. Some of those mathematicians have been sloppy programmers and would even take offense if you (as a programmer) try to show them how to correct their program so it does not destroy your system. That does not mean all mathematicans are bad programmers and I have met many who wrote programs I would be proud of.

Which brings me to his comment on women. If some women in the population of people around Zed listen to him it does not mean all women will. In fact, the population of a single workplace (Zed's) does not provide enough data to support Zed's proposition that most women would listen to him. I have met (and enjoyed working with) many men who conscientiously try to do the best job they can and are more interested in mastering the intellectual problems at hand than proving that they are the best or most knowledgeable. So fuck you, Zed, you sexist bastard. Thanks for giving the feminists and leftists one more argument to rationalize their sexual discrimination and force men to be contractors, expendable and generally unemployed, while all the women get to keep the full-time employment.