Path: csiph.com!4.us.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!news.servidellagleba.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:00:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Thu Nov 26 08:59:43 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.1 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, PGPSIGNATURE=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -4.6 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=vs7yosx4D8nc040sXSCqg+a30Bgb1Xrxk4fGEioExoM=; b=RPf56lkN3ivPcHz0X2iAlPzUICWTqFSBLuJNYkjSjvo5evx2x7yW1chgUMQQJiMsDghpocHNYddTxp8/aILC9+1zii198vcCdR0eUGo7o/N9b2lCdkj8qldDqWIHHZUhYjr5FS6U8xtqAZH1fmhct6tHk/bf7Uoj1NnEL1+5r5+w43ByfjUlm+MKkfjt4S3NA4LxRV03aK9MblR58WIC/SYpqNpOzD2rqWrFqHWsAm/Cai0+sb0DhYX2NVI05CcLC6q95kj/FtTzZtryLw4YNxos3KnOpOQRbOfQ9iX9iNR6RO2mfAv1L+Y4xsCH+M5t/uekzM+vKE7hICq2c5bmqQ==; MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/769524 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20201126085926.GC12134@tuxteam.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 55 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:59:26 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20201126085926.GC12134@tuxteam.de> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:229103 --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:56:06PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:30:02 +0100 Joe wrote: [...] > >> This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely > >> nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy > >> competing ecosystems. Magic! > > > > NTFS has been NTFS since the 90s, while Linux has had ext2, ext3, > > ext4, Reiser among other filesystems. Is it not likely that 'NTFS' > > has really been a similar parade of different filesystems with each > > version of Windows retaining the code to read previous versions? > > Occam's Razor? >=20 > In situations like this, I think not of Occam's, but of Hanlon's Razor: It is likely that the OP was really thinking Occam's razor, not Hanlon's. > Never attribute to malice that which can > be adequately explained by stupidity. >=20 > At this point, though, a little voice in the back of my mind says, > "But Microsoft isn't stupid!" For those cases I have "Bertie's Bastard", which is a cross-over of Hanlon's Razor and Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistiguishable from stupidity" Profuse apologies to Robert J. Hanlon and sublime Arthur C. Clarke. Cheers - t --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAl+/bm4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZeYACfUakUTJDpft0mZserQ0//CgLM XskAn1tPSz7FcDvGtycaEvPZKyFZfwHg =/irq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz--