From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ieee authentication standard In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:31:25 PDT." <13426df10710300931j575ca374lbacd26c3f3397478@mail.gmail.com> From: Bakul Shah Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:52:31 -0700 Message-Id: <20071030165231.BE1A95BAE@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e09c651a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > this kind of standard reminds me of acpi. > > Yeah. I just watch this stuff go by, in continuous flow. Why would you want to do that? Watch I mean. > I'm seeing it > now with NFS. It's just more and more crud piled higher and higher. > The perceived solution to problems with software is to add more > software, in each case, which is why (e.g.) Linux kernel is growing > *exponentially*. They got to keep up with the Gateses. > I keep thinking there has to be a way to call a halt, but I don't know how. You can't. Let it go. It is time to embrace meditation or yoga or Prozac.