From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 20 3: 6:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67C214E2C; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 03:06:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA69559; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:06:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:06:17 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001201106.MAA69559@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time sync problem--ntpdate AND xntpd?? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <865k6g$ibj$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [redirected to -chat] Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Walter Brameld wrote: >> By the way, what does..... >> >> > "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" >> > (Terry Pratchett) >> mean? > > from babelfish.altavista.com... > > "in each piece [of] coal a diamond waits for its birth" That translation is surprisingly accurate for babelfish. :) Sorry that I don't have separate signatures for German and international mailing lists. It's a quote from a great book by Terry Patchett, who's often called the ``Douglas Adams of Fantasy'' -- the original is in English, of course, but I only have the German translation. The German title of the book is ``Gevatter Tod'' (published by Goldmann Verlag, ISBN 3-442- 41551-9), the original is ``Reaper Man'', published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London. I have to say that this is probably the best book I've read in my life (so far). It's a very humorous story from the ``disc world'', with a lot of ``sense of wonder'', and it's surprisingly emotional given the fact that the main protagonist is Mr. Death himself... If you like Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker Trilogy", you will love this book. I can recommend it to everyone. Regards Oliver PS: In this book, "Death" lives incognito on the disc world for some time in a small village under the name "Bill Door". Although I think it's coincidental, it leaves room for some thoughts... ;-) -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message