From: Herman <Herman@AerospaceSoftware.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:59:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310311359.50893.Herman@AerospaceSoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA2CA5E.3050308@namesys.com>
On Friday 31 October 2003 8:47 pm, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I can't get US bank accounts for my programmers working for me. Why?
> Because every US bank without exception uses social security numbers as
> a primary key. A person without a social security number cannot be
> coped with. This is a weakness directly due to molding rather than
> matching structure in data.
No, that is a legal requirement, not a weakness due to molding, but I get your
point.
BTW, to my mind, the killer app in a business environment is the automatic
file versioning feature in longhorn. This protects people against fat finger
mistakes, and geez, any business has its fair share of fat head, fat finger
and dumb blond types. This is the only feature from VMS that I am longing
for...
Cheers,
H.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-29 8:50 Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right Hans Reiser
2003-10-29 22:42 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-29 23:03 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-29 22:25 ` Dax Kelson
2003-10-30 0:20 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 0:54 ` Neil Brown
2003-10-30 1:34 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 2:54 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-10-30 2:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-10-30 3:16 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 5:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-30 5:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-30 3:16 ` Neil Brown
2003-10-30 3:39 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 10:27 ` Thorsten Körner
2003-10-30 21:28 ` jlnance
2003-10-30 22:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-31 2:03 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-31 1:04 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-10-30 2:09 ` Alex Belits
2003-10-30 3:12 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 4:21 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-10-31 16:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-10-31 19:15 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 9:52 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-30 4:06 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-10-30 1:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-30 2:03 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 9:23 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-30 3:57 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-10-30 4:08 ` Larry McVoy
2003-10-30 13:46 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-31 4:50 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-10-30 7:33 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-10-30 8:43 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-10-30 8:05 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 8:17 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-10-30 11:59 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 9:14 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-10-30 9:55 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 17:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-30 19:23 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 20:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-31 7:40 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 19:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-31 20:47 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 13:59 ` Herman [this message]
2003-10-31 21:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-01 18:30 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 21:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-02 21:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-03 12:42 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-11-03 16:58 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-04 8:13 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-05 13:51 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-11-05 2:07 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 11:01 ` Kenneth Johansson
2003-10-31 13:52 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-30 11:21 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-10-30 7:25 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-10-30 8:10 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <200311011731.10052.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
[not found] ` <3FA3FF46.7010309@namesys.com>
2003-11-03 10:55 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-11-04 8:10 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] <LUlv.31e.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <M7iG.41B.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <MagC.82U.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <Maqe.8l3.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-30 11:10 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-10-30 17:23 ` Alex Belits
2003-10-31 1:46 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-31 1:57 ` Philippe Troin
[not found] ` <Mcig.2uf.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <Mcs2.2FJ.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-30 12:04 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
[not found] ` <Mg2B.7wf.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <Mh8n.BT.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <MhLf.1pF.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-30 12:16 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-02 13:11 Brian Beattie
2003-11-02 17:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-03 19:35 ` Brian Beattie
2003-11-03 20:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-03 20:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-03 20:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-03 21:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-03 22:06 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-04 8:47 ` Michael Clark
2003-11-04 12:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-04 14:02 ` Brian Beattie
2003-11-03 20:55 ` Roland Dreier
2003-11-04 0:35 ` Daniel B.
2003-11-04 14:05 ` Brian Beattie
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