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[76.182.104.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x3sm3045519yhd.9.2012.07.21.04.43.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 21 Jul 2012 04:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3WfRtj642Pz2CG4F for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:43:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:43:41 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120721074341.2c5a760a@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <201207211012.q6LACEDp007331@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201207211012.q6LACEDp007331@mail.r-bonomi.com> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnjr0K2B8oDznsp5zTbE83hSp7KcN7XyntQb7hcr6iI7lAmOr3cd5VWSKePVXvaWQ4cQW1R Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:43:46 -0000 On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:12:14 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: > > Wojciech Puchar > > > > > entitled to have opinions, *BUT* the "Gospel According to > > > Wojciech" is -not- 'the answer' for everybody, in every > > > situation. *IF* you ever learn that, > > > > Seems like you have 45 years of experience in words. nothing more. > > It seems like all you know how to do is engage in ignorant, > uninformed, personal attacks/insults. > > Not that it matters, but -- in addition to having had a news story I > wrote published on the front page of the N.Y. Times (midwest edition) > -- I've: a) Designed and implemented trans-national, trans-atlantic > corporate data network for the trading arm of a major Japanese bank. > b) implemented "array of pointer to function" in FORTRAN 77 > applications. c) Written date parsing routines, originally in FORTRAN > 66, that would recognize virtually -any- 'rational' date expression > -- including the likes of "this 23rd day of June in the Year of Our > Lord 2012". had a switch for 'prefering' European-syle (DD MM YY) or > American-style (MM DD YY) dates when ambiguous. User-manual for the > free-form command parser merely specified a 'date' was required at a > particular point, would frequently generate user inquires 'what date > _format_ is required?' Answer: "Use what you prefer, it will probably > make sense out of it" d) Written the _first_ commodity-options > 'theoretical value' calculation routine that was fast enough to be > used in 'real time' in determining 'fair value' for exchange-traded > commodity options. When the source data may change in a fractiono of > a second, Doing 'Cox-Ross-Rubenstein' math *before* the underling > data changes -- invalidating the calculation- in-progress -- is > challenging. Doing it for the -entire- market, which requires > sub-millisecond timing, is far more than just 'challenging'. e) > Written the worlds fastest project scheduling software (merely 4000 > times faster than IBM's offering at the time). After I demoed the > software for over a dozen senior IBM construction executives, they > contracted with the firm I worked for, for project scheuling services > for -all- their major physicaal plant construction projects. U.S. > Army Corps of Engineers also bought a copy. f) Wrote the _first_ > PC-based software for 'off-line' creation of control-files for a > high-end video-tape editing suite. File format _entirely_ > undocumented, required 'reverse-engineering' of everthing. g) > Designed and implemented a complete _real-time_ market price data > distribution system (everything from the incoming feed processing to > the subroutinies that the 'user applications' used) for a major > Government Securities brokerage. Stand-alone code on dedicated > processors for each incoming feed, feeding a back-end server, with > multiplexing daemons on each workstation, to support multiple > simultaneous applications. Commplete with application-level > transparency for the crash/auto-restart of any system-level > component, and auto release of resources previousl allocated to > now-zombie clients. Everthing _guaranteed_, by architecture design to > be non-blocking, _impossible_ for one client app to adversely affect > quote delivery to other apps, even on the same machine. h) Designed > and built a complete 'subscription publiication' accounting system -- > complete 'subscriber management'. billing, payment, earned- income > handling, -and- 'fulfillment' processing. i) Written > 'hyupervisor' (for lack of a better term) code for a mini- computer > system, to automate a management task on that machine that the > _manufacturer_ of the hardare and O/S said could _not_ be automated. Big deal; so what have you done lately. :-) Seriously though, I wish people would stop feeding this TROLL. There is absolutely no upside to it. As has been stated so eloquently many times before, "Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." > > Aggression is normal today from such people, that have "good > > position" in some companies and fear anyone could read any other > > than "established" opinions. > > That is an amazingly accurate description of _YOU_, Wociech -- You > might consider why you feel it necessary to _personally_attack_ > anyone and everyone who "has the nerve to disagree with your > _opinions_". -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.