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From: Invisible
Subject: Sad mind
Date: 26 Sep 2011 08:26:53
Message: <4e806f8d$1@news.povray.org>
"Sadmind allows remote administration access to Solaris systems, 
providing a graphical user interface for system administration functions."

Of all the names they could have picked, why "sad mind"?


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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 26 Sep 2011 08:57:30
Message: <4e8076ba$1@news.povray.org>
Le 26/09/2011 14:26, Invisible a écrit :
> "Sadmind allows remote administration access to Solaris systems,
> providing a graphical user interface for system administration functions."
> 
> 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.

-- 
Software is like dirt - it costs time and money to change it and move it
around.

Just because you can't see it, it doesn't weigh anything,
and you can't drill a hole in it and stick a rivet into it doesn't mean
it's free.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 26 Sep 2011 09:26:36
Message: <4e807d8c$1@news.povray.org>
>> 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?


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 26 Sep 2011 12:57:47
Message: <4e80af0b@news.povray.org>
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?

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Sad mind
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.)

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 26 Sep 2011 14:26:43
Message: <4e80c3e3@news.povray.org>
On 26/09/2011 06:01 PM, Warp wrote:

>    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.)

I borrowed a CG book from the library. (So, obviously, it was decades 
out of date.) I spent the next several years wondering what the HELL the 
difference is between a Bezier-splinr, B-spline, beta-spline, 
cubic-spline, rational-spline and NURBS...

-- 
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 26 Sep 2011 15:30:11
Message: <4e80d2c3$1@news.povray.org>
On 9/26/2011 10:01, Warp wrote:
>    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.)

For me, it was "whodunit".  Apparently, the "whod" is a measure of how much 
mystery surrounds a dead body. Finding one gives you one whod unit.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 27 Sep 2011 04:02:22
Message: <4e81830e@news.povray.org>
On 26/09/2011 08:30 PM, Darren New wrote:

> For me, it was "whodunit". Apparently, the "whod" is a measure of how
> much mystery surrounds a dead body. Finding one gives you one whod unit.

Maybe I'll explain that one for you sometime. You know, when I get a 
round tuit...


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Sad mind
Date: 27 Sep 2011 13:07:01
Message: <4e8202b5$1@news.povray.org>
On 9/27/2011 1:02, Invisible wrote:
> On 26/09/2011 08:30 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
>> For me, it was "whodunit". Apparently, the "whod" is a measure of how
>> much mystery surrounds a dead body. Finding one gives you one whod unit.
>
> Maybe I'll explain that one for you sometime. You know, when I get a round
> tuit...


I *did* eventually figure it out, but it was about 10 years later.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?


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