Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:01:53 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Aaron Smith <aaron@veritas.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Message-ID: <4075.861249713@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:23:48 PDT." <m0wHezO-000iX3C@megami.veritas.com>
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> I would recommend easing up on your need to sound authoritative on topics > you have not mastered. The probablity of Terry making such a change is approximately equivalent to that of finding an actual spacecraft tailing the Hale-Bopp comet, all members of the Heaven's Gate cult safely tucked aboard and showing off their new Nikes to a group of admiring aliens. If I were Terry (and perish the very thought), I'd probably also show you the statistical probability graphs for this, lovingly rendered into ASCII art, and using the phrase "transitive closure" at least once. If they ever make a movie of Terry's life, he'll be played by Jeff Goldblum (every time I see that non-explanation of Chaos theory in "Jurassic Park", I think of Terry). Anyway, it makes him happy so who are we to judge? Just so long as one doesn't make the mistake of actually listening to him, he's comparatively harmless and, like Jesus Monroy Jr before him, a fairly good source of comedy material for me (if you're going to make a game of poking fun at crackpots, you do need at least one actual crackpot around to make it work). Like the prototypical village idiot, he performs a valuable service - leave him alone! :-) Jordan
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