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Quotes of the week
XFS is not something I look into the innards of as I don't have
enough chickens to sacrifice.
-- Alan Cox
On the subject of the longstanding "treason uncloaked!" kernel message:
Most people won't actually think their printer is on fire. But most
people WILL think there is serious cause for concern when they see
this for the first time in dmesg. Many will search the net for
explanations and come away confused and not entirely reassured. And
at least one clueless guy will call the police because he still
thinks he's under attack.
-- Matt Mackall
Now that certainly fits my definition of amusing and if my goal for Linux was to amuse myself at the expense of users, I'd be all for keeping it[1]. But perversely, I actually want users to enjoy their Linux experience. [1] Hell, I'd probably even get them to use git.
It's never been rejected. For a long time it has been in a state where
we're looking for the data which would allow us to agree that its
benefits are worth its costs. AFAIK that has never really been
convincingly demonstrated. Nor has the converse case been
demonstrated, so it floats in limbo.
-- Andrew Morton on FS-Cache(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 25, 2008 1:48 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] And at least one clueless guy will call the police because he still thinks he's under attack. He who calls the police might be good friends with the Tuttle (Oklahoma) City Manager. ;) I once received a phone call from a woman who was frantic because her computer had alerted her (via a popup dialog box) that she was about to view a web page over a secure (SSL) connection. Of course, those skilled enough to view kernel messages via dmesg(1) are perhaps a little more well-informed than these poor souls...
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 25, 2008 16:43 UTC (Thu) by amikins (guest, #451) [Link]
Nowadays a lot of desktop environments and distros have easy-to-use ways of accessing those logs, enabling less clued individuals to see Scary Things.
It's like looking at the code in the Matrix. Funny stuff, if you're in the room with the uninformed user at the time.
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