Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:17:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need a name for the vinum daemon Message-ID: <199810200517.WAA00306@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:04 %2B0930." <19981020143204.Q433@freebie.lemis.com>
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> >> Now I find I need a daemon to do some work that requires process > >> context. What should I call the daemon? There should be all sorts of > >> word plays on the devil drink and such, but I can't think of anything > >> appropriate. If anybody can suggest a good name, preferably Latin, > >> I'll give you a bottle of wine (or at least a Vinum core dump :-) > > > > Bacchus, of course. > > It's certainly getting the votes, isn't it? It's definitely the obvious choice. > What's wrong with "winemaking"? Are you trying to think of oenology? > That's really the study rather than the practice, not a problem in > itself, but it's Greek, and the Americans appear not to know it at > all. That's it. I think a daemon called "oenologist" has a lot going for it: - It can be creatively mispronounced. - A user seeing it in the process listing is going to be completely befuddled. - It's quite subtle without being impenetrable (like the 3-way vinum play). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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