Valleywag (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Narrowingly beating out Hans Reiser in a tight reader vote, The Register's newest columnist, Ted Dziuba, has won the IT snark site's poll for CTO of America. Yeah, it's stupid. But after reading all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
The two children of convicted murderer Hans Reiser have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him, accusing him of causing them emotional pain for killing their mother. Rory Reiser, 8, and his sister, Niorline, 7, who now live with their maternal...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Filesystem developer Hans Reiser received a relatively lenient 15-to-life prison sentence Friday for killing his wife. His conviction was downgraded from first-degree murder to second-degree murder because he cooperated with authorities and revealed the location of the missing body. Read More...
Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Hans Reiser will spend at least the next 15 years behind bars for murdering his wife
D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, a journaled computer file system used by Linux, was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and ended with Reiser leading police to a makeshift grave a short distance from where he strangled his wife. “I wish to [...]
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
mallumax writes “Hans Reiser was today handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life for murdering his wife. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty and led police to his wife’s body. His jury trial concluded in April with Reiser’s first-degree murder conviction. That carries a 25-to-life term, but the authorities, in a backroom deal, later offered him [...]
NeoWin (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, a journaled computer file system used by Linux, was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and ended with Reiser leading police to a makeshift grave a short distance from where he strangled his wife. "I wish to humbly apologize to society for my crime," Reiser said in a statement before his...
Threat Level (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
With his children asleep in bed, Hans Reiser stole away from his home two nights in a row to dig his wife's grave, while her body sat in a duffel bag in his car. That's one of the details to emerge in this grizzly 34-page...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
The Linux programmer pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and thus got a reduced sentence as part of a deal he made in exchange for bringing police to his victim's body.
[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
At Wired's Threat Level , Kevin Poulsen posts the transcript of linux developer Hans Reiser's confession. in the most unsophisticated chokehold that any judo instructor would completely despise you...
Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Linux Guru Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15-to-life Friday for murdering Nina Reiser, his wife who was divorcing him. Reiser, the developer of the ReiserFS file system, maintained throughout a six-month-long trial that his wife abandoned their two young children after he confronted her with allegations she bilked his Oakland, California software company Namesys. After [...]
NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Computer engineer Hans Reiser is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for his first-degree murder conviction for killing his wife Nina, who was last seen alive on Sept. 3, 2006, when she dropped off the couple's two children at his home in the Oakland hills.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Hans Reiser killed his estranged wife by strangling her after she made a "cavalier" remark during an argument over who should have custody of the couple's children, his attorney said today after the Oakland computer programmer was sentenced to 15 years to...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Hans Reiser killed his estranged wife by strangling her after she made a "cavalier" remark during an argument over who should have custody of the couple's children, his attorney said Friday after the Oakland computer programmer was sentenced to 15 years to...
NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
A state appeals court in San Francisco has dismissed a dispute over whether an Alameda County juvenile court judge can order the young children of convicted murderer Hans Reiser to return from Russia for child welfare evaluations.
