From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 8 13:28: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC8414EDC; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id NAA02752; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:28:01 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA06810; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:28:01 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id NAA28716; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:26:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3877ACA9.9719C8EA@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:31:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Lucas , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: article on 4.0 References: <200001071514.KAA17803@blackhelicopters.org> <38769B00.7A6DE354@softweyr.com> <20000108115749.B47712@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > > [ FU -chat ] > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 07:03:44PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > > *scads of device drivers (yes, scads *is* a technical term) > > > > I believe the correct technical term here would be a "buttload." > > Metric buttload or Imperial buttload? We've standardized on the ANSI/ISO buttload to avoid confusion, and conversion errors. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message