A rather long time ago, a commentator on my entry on the practicalitiesof non-GPL'd kernel modules wrote, in part:

ZFS is most beneficial to companies running storage servers. Thesecompanies will only use supported modules [...]

I actually think that this is backwards. Ignoring the various legalissues for the moment, companies building commercial storage serversare exactly the people that I would not be surprised to see using akernel module that was not and could never be in the mainline Linuxkernel.

There is a popular view that use of SSL creates authentication. Ifyou really care seriously about security (and worry a lot aboutinterception), this is not the case. Assuming that all else goes well,a SSL certificate only creates authentication if you (as the user of awebsite) can trust that the certificate actually belongs to the website;otherwise you could be talking to an imposter or someone conducting aman in the middle attack.

(Note that there is a lot that can gowrong before you get

Go has re-popularized the idea of handlingall of your blocking waiting-for-things operations by using CSP -likecommunication channels instead of select() (in Go, using goroutinesand channels). However, it's my firm belief that this isn't good enough;despite what some people think, you cannot replace select() in mostcommon CSP-like implementations.

The crucial ability that select() gives you is the ability to stopwaiting for something in response to some external event