“As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines ...” — Wietse Venema Quote

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.

A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.