On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:31:20 -0400, Nicholas Krause said:

Your right, questions about eucalyptus based tasks should be asked off list to avoid people getting easy answers through.

No, the rules are to do it *on your own*, without asking anybody, on or off list.

However I think a lot of this could be avoided if we taught people how to do kernel programming research better.

Well, why don't you make suggestions from your own experience how we can improve that?