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Post number 4415

baylink — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:20:04 -0800

Mike Muuss, author of ping(1), dead at 42. Traffic accident, Maryland, tractor-trailer. Half a dozen bad pastiche jokes go here, but I'm not going to do them.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:28:56 -0800

I'll never forget ping.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:52:46 -0800

the news snippet below that one is pretty cool...i Never got to blow things up in chemistry. I feel cheated. [Matt...i still have a copy of Ping boxed up somewhere.] and on to the topic at hand...how about a link to something about ping(1) so i can read about it?

By: baylink

baylink — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:02:26 -0800

Ask, and you shall receive. In perhaps the most stunning fit of irony yet this year on MetaFilter, the first usable page I could find in a Google search on the topic was about... the Ping of Death. Sorry. No joke intended. In an even more stunning fit of irony (nothing like topping yourself), I remembered a cute story about hooking ping to a sound player and turning up the speakers to find a bad ethernet connection. From beyond the grave, here's that story, authored by... Mike Muuss. <sigh>

By: baylink

baylink — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:06:32 -0800

I was wrong. It keeps getting {better,worse}. From his home page: Unlike every other document on the Web, this page is in final form and completely finished. *grin* Yeah, I guess that's right.

By: luke

luke — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:28:04 -0800

Sorry, Alanis. Coincidences doth not irony make.

By: plinth

plinth — Thu, 23 Nov 2000 06:46:13 -0800

Mike was responsible in part for BRLCAD, a ray tracer used by the ballistics research lab. I used this package circa 1989 and was in contact with Mike with regards to bugs and usage problems I was having. He was responsive and very helpful. I'm sorry he's gone.

By: jillmatrix

jillmatrix — Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:49:15 -0800

Dear God. Click on the photo on the homepage baylink linked to.

By: baylink

baylink — Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:20:56 -0800

Well, ok, you're right, I'm Alanis. But it's not just coincidence, neither. Any volunteers for a better term?

By: evixir

evixir — Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:58:55 -0800

Wow. What if we all had to fill out forms like this and submit our webpages to an editorial review board? Can you imagine if it took 4 months for your site to be approved for release? Who would YOUR Division Chief be? I don't know about you, but I know my site shouldn't be reviewed for OPSEC policy. The horrors! Ah, military life.