From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:24:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201390000.1070900656@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312070812080.2057@home.osdl.org>
> In contrast, the old cdrecord interfaces are an UNBELIEVABLE PILE OF CRAP!
> It's an interface that is based on some random hardware layout mechanism
> that isn't even TRUE any more, and hasn't been true for a long time. It's
> not helpful to the user, and it doesn't match how devices are accessed by
> everything else on the system.
>
> It's bad from a technical standpoint (anybody who names a generic device
> with a flat namespace is just basically clueless), and it's bad from a
> usability standpoint. It has _zero_ redeeming qualities.
I think the appropriate phrase is "user malevolent" software. Making
the user interface fit some arcane technica rather than the user is
rather tragic. Reality is quite complicated enough as it is, without
deliberately setting out to make it more so.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 8:01 cdrecord hangs my computer Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 8:54 ` Ethan Weinstein
2003-12-06 11:59 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06 13:40 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-06 14:37 ` John Bradford
2003-12-06 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 22:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-06 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-07 11:01 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-12-07 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:21 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-09 12:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-08 17:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-08 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-09 14:50 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-09 20:42 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 16:24 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-12-08 19:22 ` dialectical deprecation " Bob
2003-12-09 21:19 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-09 22:31 ` David Lang
2003-12-09 21:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-08 4:36 ` Bob
2003-12-08 4:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-07 0:16 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-07 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-07 4:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:13 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:41 ` bluefaceplate demographics " Bob
2003-12-06 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 12:39 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 18:27 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 19:08 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-08 9:31 Douglas Gilbert
2003-12-11 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-11 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-15 13:29 Paul Marinceu
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