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Comment Re:Doesn't matter what he did (Score 1) 465

Yes but good fiction is a mirror with which we see our very nature, & science fiction is often the mirror we turn on the uglier aspects of our selves.

From black people in space in TOS to the morality of suicide bombing and questions about the nature of humanity in BSTG, Scifi writers have used the genre to point out the inconsistences in the prevailing moral zeitgeist, the constant falling back on magic is just sloppy writing & robs the story of any teaching power it might otherwise have had.

Comment Re:ext3 with data journaling (Score 1) 508

For this reason I use JFS on my MythTV recording partitions but ext3 everywhere else. When I set it up 3 years ago I found a very comprehensive set of Linus FS benchmarks that included deletes of large files, JFS was the fastest at this and not far off the fastest at most other tasks, can't find the page now.

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