Mike Muuss, the author of the essential Unix networking program 'ping', has died. Anyone working with networks uses ping as part of their daily lives-- see lower in that page for the parodic honorarium in the form of an Amazon.com book review. Slashdotters mourn, with obligatory 100% packet loss jokes.

In his own words (warning: white text on almost-white background; hit Ctrl-A to read).