From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 1:27:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A531E37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from koa.aloha.com (koa.aloha.com [206.127.224.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9A943FBF for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from vaiosr7k.ozland (atm-251-63.pixi.com [206.127.251.63]) by koa.aloha.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1M9QOiT008037; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:26:25 -1000 (HST) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:00:39 -1000 From: Gary Dunn To: Justin Hopper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example Message-Id: <20030221230039.418fd71d.knowtree@aloha.com> In-Reply-To: <1045882154.22999.730.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> References: <20030221211520.88E0A43FE9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1045882154.22999.730.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> Organization: Open Slate X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Feb 2003 18:49:14 -0800 Justin Hopper wrote: > Hello zerotransfer, > > I've always enjoyed religious debates, but the list probably tires of > them, and if we keep this up, one of the list admins will probably tell > us to 'take it outside'. But as a final followup, there are sacred > numbers in every religion, as far as I know, and if we in the IT sector, > which is very number heavy, paid attention to what superstition somebody > may hold with a certain number, our jobs would become ever more > complicated. In Japanese, the word shi ("she") means 4 and death. This is the basis for the custom of never giving a gift of four things. Tea cup and sake cup sets always come with five cups, so that the giver does not wish death upon the recipient. I suppose that setting a file's permissions to -rw-r--r- (644) gets a laugh when thought of as read-write kill kill; reminds me of some USENET news group names. Except those prefered die-die, and in Japanese dai means big. Programmers often use certain patterns to indicate dummy data. I was taught to use nines for that. In the handbook, I might have used *default host=cvsup999.FreeBSD.org It does not take a leap of faith to presume that the author uses 666 where I would use 999, with no offense intended regardless of race, creed, or color. -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Gary Dunn _/ _/ Open Slate Project _/ _/ http://openslate.sourceforge.net/ _/ _/ http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ _/ _/ Honolulu _/ _/ registered Linux user #273809 _/ _/ _/ _/ This tagline is umop apisdn. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message