On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:19 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
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wrote:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022300693_pf.html
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>What I'd like to know is exactly HOW you can establish yourself as a
Geek,
>so you can claim this defence. If writing a file system for Linux is all
it
>takes (a weekend's work for a COBOL programmer...), then there are a lot
>more Geeks around than many people may suppose.
Grade A programmers are not deficient in social and language skill; Grade
B wannabes are.
Geekiness is a stereotype created by the also-rans as an excuse. The
general public and
media embraced it to relieve their jealosy. It's like the idea that rich
people are all
unhappy and beautiful women are all stupid. Stereotyping is just another
name for bigotry.
I've known geeky programmers and first-rate programmers. I've never known
one who was
both.
Here is a comment on the Genius' journaling file system for Linux:
"ReiserFS has gone through (at last count) four distinct, on-disk formats,
with at best
rocky compatibility from one to the next. The "fsck" (filesystem check)
utilities for
ReiserFS has earned a reputation for often repairing filesystems by
massive deletion of
files. This appears to happen primarily because of loss of metadata, as
opposed to damage
to datafiles. Many observers have been leery of the design, for those two
reasons. Some
would object that the characteristics of versions before ReiserFS4 are no
longer relevant:
Others hold the inconsistent, changing design, and severe reliability
problems of the
prior code against it."
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/journaled-filesystems.html
>Did he do it? (Jo Brand, referring to O. J. Simpson: "Course he did it;
>he's a bloke...")
Guilt can only be decided based on EVIDENCE, not personality. As much as
tabloids wish it
otherwise, he's not on trial for being abnormal.
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