Convicted killer Hans Reiser led police on Monday to what he said was the body of his wife in the Oakland hills, just two days before he was to be sentenced for first-degree murder, authorities said.
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Member since:2005-06-29
But has the fact that Hans led the police to the dead body of his wife ANYTHING to do with Computing? goto start
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But seriously... OSNews already discussed this (for more off-topic subjects) many, many times... In the end, do not expect to see ONLY subjects explicitly related to computing (even because this is very related to interpretation). Keep recommending stories you like and ignore the ones you don't feel like reading...
...your discomfort in this case probably is related more to the fact that the guy is much more like "us" (big parenthesis here) than the usual killer you see in the news, and still, he and the community are getting much publicity over this fact... Maybe it's not a good thing for "us", but it's something that really happened and, therefore, 'news'.
Member since:2005-07-06
It is DIRECTLY related to the OS scene.
Take me for example. I am typing this reply on my Opensuse machine, which has / and /home both formatted in reiserfs.
Tonight, I will reinstall, and format in XFS. Not because of some ideology that I will not use something a murderer created, or now that I know for certain he is a murderer.
No, I will be removing reiserfs from this machine as in essence it too is dead. It might not have been a one man show, but the head of the dragon is now cut off, and I cannot see it being developed much more than it is at the minute.
I might be completely wrong and someone might come along, take the source code and make an excellent fs, but, until I know for sure, I will change to a fs that currently is still being developed.
As a side note, apart from reiserfs... what is the best/fastest filesystem for Opensuse11 ?
Member since:2007-03-29
Member since:2006-01-06
Well, if Reiser used Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm to trace back to the location of the body, that would qualify...
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I know Hans Reiser developed a Filesystem, and therefore he is connected to the world of computing.
But has the fact that Hans led the police to the dead body of his wife ANYTHING to do with Computing? I guess not. So in my mind it is NOT a topic to be discussed on OSNews.