[gentoo-amd64] Re: fsck seems to screw up my harddisk

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
200612041016.58159.prh@gotadsl.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Mon, 04 Dec
2006 10:16:58 +0000:

> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 01:49, Richard Fish wrote:
> 
>> I'm starting to suspect everybody is a "ricer".
> 
> Er, what's one of those? I assume it's an Americanism.

The term is borrowed from the automotive scene, where "ricer" refers to
those that are into the performance scene -- particularly mods like racing
decals, dual exhaust pipe ends, and the like, that are designed to /look/
impressive (to that set, anyway), but don't actually raise performance.

Wictionary and Wikipedia both have entries in this context:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ricer

Unfortunately, use in this context apparently hasn't made it into most
dictionaries (at least those listed at onelook.com), as most only list the
term in the sense of wiktionary definition 1 (a cooking utensil).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricer

It's quite popular among users of binary distributions to mock Gentoo as a
ricer distribution.  One must admit such folks will be attracted to
Gentoo, but of course as users, we know there are other reasons to use it
as well -- including on the technical side the amount of possible
customization, thus appealing to the power user who likes being in
control, regardless of how interested in performance they may or may not
be, and on the social side, a relatively large/active/helpful user
community and rather more (quantity) and more useful documentation than is
available for many/most distributions.

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