On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:11:55 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 10/9/2011 16:12, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:39:39 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/9/2011 14:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> The point was that Andy said that binary blob data could be stored in
>>>> the registry and not a Linux configuration file.
>>>
>>> Oh. I thought that was more "you *could* do it that way, but it would
>>> be a stupid way to do it" sort of comment. OK.
>>
>> Oh, no.  It was entirely about the fact that saying the registry is
>> unique (or whatever) because you can store binary data in it was kinda
>> silly.
> 
> I didn't catch that assertion. OK. It's fairly unique in being a
> standard searchable format with an API, but not in that it stores binary
> data.

grep -ri text /etc/*

Works pretty well for being a standard searchable format on Linux. ;)

>> But the term "BSOD" originally meant "Black Screen of Death" and came
>> with certain versions of Novell's VLM client (1.02, IIRC) with DOS and
>> Windows 3.1.  To the best of my knowledge, that's where BSOD was first
>> used.
> 
> Interesting.

Most people who haven't had a lot of exposure to NetWare are unaware of 
the term's origin. ;)

Jim

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