Big Blue Arndt: July 2007 Archives

The man himself, Bob Barker's successor, just announced in on the Late Show.

I love that.

Over at penny-arcade I found a blog from the strip's writer indicating that he could not stop being fascinated with this article.

I read it. There's a couple of interesting angles, including a proclaimed possibility of discrimination against nerds, which is proclaimed by the murder suspect in question.

Purportedly the subject is also a big deal in Linux social circles, although his OS iteration reshapes hard drives to the point where if they break, retrieval for your data is probably impossible, which is the cost of effective information compression. The fact that he is a Linux re-designer is probably the only reason this subject is in Wired magazine.

The author apparently leaves it open to dscussion throughout the article whether or not Mister Hans Reiser murdered his wife, highlighting one question throughout the entire article, but I think the article's writer is being a bit too artistic given his subject matter. As a matter of license he has samples of the murder suspect's Linux code spread throughout the article, wherever it would be artistically fitting, in his judgment.

The last part of the article has part of the code which would seem incriminating except that Hans Reiser's company, Namesys, which worked on his project, consisted of many individual and the statement about death written into the code wasn't written by Mr. Reiser.

The article is fascinating, worth reviewing, not especially well-written beyond what is needed to get me hooked, and artsy enough to be disgusting. It is a Wired article in every way. It tells you just short of what you'd want to know, given what it has already told you.
Just like what I just did.