David Boggs has died
Oh no! This breaks my heart. :(<p>David and Ron Crane hired me for my first job in California right around 2000.  I had no clue who they both were we just met at a trade show and I said I was looking for a job, we had this crazy interview where we just talked about anything and everything, and voila I was working in silicon valley. I think we spent about 2 hours talking about how we could float a balloon beside an AM radio station and how light up a light bulb...<p>Anyways, who fresh out of school doesn't work for the inventor of ethernet/fast ethernet/a core founder of 3com, etc? I only spent 2 years working with them, and I've always been looking to work with similar talent/kindness/etc.  How they put up with a fresh grad I will never know.<p>I remember David and I working on an SDSL project, and we were just having the worst time ever.  We couldn't get it train and finish setting up the link, it did almost everything but then just failed at the end.  It was meant to be easy....but we just couldn't figure it out.  We spent a crazy amount of time on it, maybe a month.  Finally Ron got fed up, and asked "have you tried reversing the pairs?" and it worked!  Turns out we had plugged the cable in backwards, and trying to streamline/debug the code had removed the final bits of cleanup code that checked if the pair was reversed.  Ah well.<p>They were amazing mentors and friends.  David invited me over to his home for wine tastings, to meet his cats (Palo and Alto), etc. I unfortunately lost touch with him over the years as I moved, he moved, etc.<p>Thank you David, you welcomed me to California and you'll be missed.