{"id":745,"date":"2009-01-11T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=745"},"modified":"2010-07-19T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T05:27:12","slug":"master-foo-and-the-nervous-novice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Master Foo and the Nervous Novice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a novice who learned much at the Master&#8217;s feet, but felt something to be missing. After meditating on his doubts for some time, he found the courage to approach Master Foo about his problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Master Foo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why do Unix users not employ antivirus programs? And defragmentors? And malware cleaners?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Master Foo smiled, and said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When your house is well constructed, there is no need to add pillars to keep the roof in place.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The novice replied \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Would it not be better to use these things anyway, just to be certain?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Master Foo reached for a nearby ball of string, and began wrapping it around the novice&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What are you doing?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the novice asked in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Master Foo replied simply: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tying your shoes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing this, the novice was enlightened.<\/p>\n<p>(Other koans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/writings\/unix-koans\/\">here.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a novice who learned much at the Master&#8217;s feet, but felt something to be missing. After meditating on his doubts for some time, he found the courage to approach Master Foo about his problem. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Master Foo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why do Unix users not employ antivirus programs? And defragmentors? And malware cleaners?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Master Foo&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=745\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Master Foo and the Nervous Novice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}