[vox] Master and Slave

[Peter Jay Salzman]

hi david,

the issue made both slashdot[3] and snopes.com[2] (one of my favorite
sites).

here's info on the guy who made the decision to not purchase hardware
labelled "master" and "slave".  the news sites say he's been getting
email from places as far away as switzerland[1]:

   https://secure.cacommunities.com/uscommunities/state_statutes/advisoryboard.asp

look for "joe sandoval" if you want to thank him for such a great news
story.  ;)

pete



[1] http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1791069,00.html
[2] http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
[3] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/25/0014257&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=133&tid=186&tid=99


On Sat 06 Dec 03,  2:47 AM, David Margolis <margolid@ecs.csus.edu> said:
> I'm glad you posted this.  This clears up a User Friendly from a couple of
> days ago.  I _got_ the joke as far as master/slave but I didn't know the
> context....
> 
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Ken Bloom wrote:
> 
> > Apparently, /dev/hda discriminates against /dev/hdb.
> > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html

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