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Quotes of the week
The point is, that expectation that the BIOS returns 20 seems very
unreasonable. BIOS writers tend to have been on pain medication for
so long that they can hardly remember their own name, much less
actually make sure they follow all the documentation.
But that's not the point. The point is that you barely had time to
compile that thing, much less give it any testing. The whole "it
compiles, it's perfect, ship it" mentality is _strictly_ only for
me.
-- Linus Torvalds
The problem is, this is what the application programmers are
telling the filesystem developers. They refuse to change their
programs; and the features they want are sometimes mutually
contradictory, or at least result in a overconstrained problem ---
and then they throw the whole mess at the filesystem developers'
feet and say, "you fix it!"
-- Ted Ts'o
Which application developers did you speak to? Because, frankly,
the majority of the ones I know felt that ext3 embodied the pony
that they'd always dreamed of as a five year old. Stephen gave them
that pony almost a decade ago and now you're trying to take it to
the glue factory. I remember almost crying at that bit on Animal
Farm, so I'm really not surprised that you're getting pushback
here.
-- Matthew Garrett
Thou shalt remember to use 'git add' or errors shall be visited on
your downloads and there shall be wrath from on list and much
gnashing of teeth.
-- Alan CoxThou shalt remember to use git status or there shall be catcalls and much embarrasment shall come to pass. (Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 10, 2009 19:22 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] On Linus' 2nd comment:
But that's not the point. The point is that you barely had time to compile that thing, much less give it any testing. The whole "it compiles, it's perfect, ship it" mentality is _strictly_ only for me. you left off the next line:
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 13, 2009 21:41 UTC (Mon) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] And on the first:
The point is, that expectation that the BIOS returns 20 seems very unreasonable. BIOS writers tend to have been on pain medication for so long that they can hardly remember their own name, much less actually make sure they follow all the documentation. ...another pithy observation:
Because that's the only case where we can pretty much depend on BIOS writers get things right - if Windows doesn't boot when they get it wrong. As far as I can tell, that has always been the only real quality assurance for most BIOS'es. Greg
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