I got the July 2007 issue of Wired Magazine and I saw an article about a guy who is a brilliant coder, a Linux geek and a murder suspect...Hans Reiser. Hans Reiser was known in the tech world as "a cantakerous but visionary open source programmer, whose work was funded by the government and that he was widely credited and reviled for rethinking the structure of the Linux operating system." Last year, Reiser was accused for murdering his ex-wife, Nina, who went missing in September and whose body is yet to be found.
It was the mention of Linux that got my attention since I figured I might get some info that I could write about in the blog. Sure, I learned about file systems. I learned how a file system organizes data on a computer, how it tells the processors where to find data, how it decides how to place info on the hard drive. Reiser says that "a file system represent the roads and waterways of the operating system."
As a casual user of computers (by casual I mean I know how to type, to use some programs, get on the internet to find online information, shop etc.) I'm not one to know the intricacies of programming. If you ask me about operating systems and file systems, I give you a blank look and maybe bat my eyelashes and smile to indicate what I want to blurt out which is..."hmmm, I dunno!"
This article gave me a bit of an insight of how the mind of programmers work. Although I saw the Linux part as a possible point of topic for my tech blog, the nosy-law-and-order-detective-wannabe in me prevailed because in the end it was the juicy bits of the murder case that held my interest :o) The article was well written in a geeky way...actually, it's interesting if a bit troubling.
Here's a link to the article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser?currentPage=1
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