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This is Train of Thoughts (german “Gedankengänge”), the private BLOG dedicated to announcements, discussions, musings, wonderings and hacks of Ralf S. Engelschall, a 35-year old independent computer scientist and Unix developer living with his wife and two children in Munich, Germany. He has 21 years of computing and 18 years of Unix and Networking experience.

He is the author of the book Apache Desktop Reference, author of over a dozen IT magazine articles and author of three dozen popular Open Source software components, including the popular Apache mod_rewrite and mod_ssl extensions, the GNU Portable Threads and GNU Portable Shell Tool and the OpenPKG cross-platform multi-instance Unix software packaging facility.

Beside being the founder of OpenSSL, OpenPKG and OSSP, since over a decade he is an active developer in the Apache, FreeBSD and GNU projects. He is a member of USENIX Association, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement (GPM/IPMA) and OpenPKG Foundation. Additionally, he is founder and president of the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. and founder of the OpenPKG GmbH.

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This is Train of Thoughts, the private BLOG dedicated to
announcements, discussions, little ponderings, musings and hacks of
Ralf S. Engelschall, an independent computer scientist and Unix developer.

Computer science isn't about computers any more
than astronomy is about telescopes.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra

It's not enough to be a great programmer;
you have to find a great problem.
— Charles Simonyi

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Principle"

The idea is to fall and miss the ground.
— Douglas Adams, "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Every good work of software starts by
scratching a developer's personal itch.
— Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic. — unknown

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw

Basically, perfect development is impossible.
Development can be fast, good, and cheap.
Pick two. — Larry Wall

Do what you feel in your heart to be right —
for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do,
and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I'd like to thank all the little people who helped make
this possible, but I can't, because I did it all myself.
— Herman Monster

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