RIP Power, Privilege, and Justice 0
Dominick Dunne passes.
His interest in crime, which led to his show, Power, Privilege, and Justice, on CourtTruTV, grew out of the murder of his daughter.
Power, Privilege, and Justice was one of the few shows on commercial television which spoke to, rather than down to, the viewer (well, these days, a lot shows actually speak up to the viewer–one does hope the viewer is smarter than the shows; the alternative is despair).
The last scheduled new episode, about Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS (Reiser File System) for Linux and Unix and wife killer, is slated for this Friday.
When I started with Linux, with Slackware 10.0, the ReiserFS was the default file system. Pat Volkerding, the benevolent dictator of Slackware, makes default only stuff that works. That’s why Slackware is never cutting edge, always works, and never breaks.
When Hans Reiser went to jail, Pat went back to ext3.
He suspected that ReiserFS was not going to be well-supported any more. It is difficult to geek in the pokey.
