Re: Of removable devices

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 17-Feb-00 Alan Cox wrote:
>> Eh? If one wants to pull the mounted device in the middle of write and
>> expects his data alive and well after that - well, he _is_ idiot. If you
>> want political correctness - please: comprehension-challenged. Better?
> 
> End users don't always get it. They often aren't computing people.

...which generally makes them much better at knowing the right way things
*should work*.  If you put someone naive in front of a computer and pay
attention to what they do, you generally find that their first instincts are
good.  It generally doesn't work, but it's not their fault for trying.

Pulling a disk out in the middle of a write is just asking for it, but is it
not reasonable to expect the machine to cope when you pull out an (apparently)
completely idle piece of media?

> someone can be very bright and utterly incapable of relating to computers

Which really means "relating to 30 years of obscure folklore in 'the right
thing' which is mostly to do with 'it was easy to code'".

        J