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Jason Rogers, a U.S. saber fencer in the 2008 Beijing Olympics won a silver medal Sunday. He is actually a cousin of mine, although I’ve never met him.
From the Chicago Tribune,
BEIJING – In a match pitting the “Bleus” against the “Red, White and Blue,” France beat the United States Sunday in an improbable gold medal match in men’s team saber.
Improbable not because the French, considered the favorites coming into these Games, took home the gold in their second straight Olympics by defeating the Americans 45-37.
Improbable because the United States men’s saber team was not expected to make a blip in Beijing but found its way to the gold medal match Sunday evening after a stunning afternoon of upset wins. The seventh-seeded Americans — led by Keeth Smart, Tim Morehouse, James Williams and Jason Rogers, who did not compete in the final — come home with the silver, their highest ever standing. Their only previous men’s team saber medal was bronze at the 1948 London Games.
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Greg Kroah-Hartmann Visits my Operating Systems II Class
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Greg Kroah-Hartmann, a leader in the linux community, visited my CS411 class last Friday, May 23rd.
He works for Novell in the SUSE Labs division, based out of Nurumberg, Germany. He said only one person works there in Germany while everyone else works around the world.
He explained how the hierarchy of the people who develop linux works. It’s very efficient because at some point a file will have been touched by at least two people.
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton used to pull the subsystem trees together by themselves, but now they use something better called Linux NEXT.
I asked him what kind of source control program was his favorite to which he replied, “git”.
There are some stagnated areas in the kernel development like PCMCIA and serial ports, but then again some older ports have been really active.
One thing I liked to hear was that he said, “The most linux kernel developers in the world are in Portland.” so I’m not too far away from some good innovators.
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