POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Sad mind : Re: Sad mind Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:27:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sad mind  
From: Warp
Date: 26 Sep 2011 13:01:45
Message: <4e80aff8@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 9/26/2011 6:26, Invisible wrote:
> >>> Of all the names they could have picked, why "sad mind"?
> >>
> >> It's a daemon, so its name must end in d.
> >> It's purpose is administration of Solaris... S(olaris)admin(stration)d.
> >> If your quote is correct, notice the upper S.
> >
> > So it's actually s admin d rather than sad mind?
> >
> > What an unfortunately coincidence. What are the chances of that?

> Theexpertsexchange.com!  Therapist.com!

  A very minor example, but for a time I wondered if a "bspline" should be
read as "b-spline" or as "bsp-line". (Back then both sounded plausible to me.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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