[ILUG] When servers grow up ....

[Foley, Brian (Galway)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall O Broin [mailto:niall at magicgoeshere.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:51 PM
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] When servers grow up ....
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:38:23AM +0100, Frank Peelo wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, 'brace' means the same as 'pair'. I submit that a
> 
> and I don't ever recall hearing brace used except in the 
> context of things
> alive, or formerly alive (i.e. that's a nice brace of pheasant). My

'brace of pheasants' was what inspired my sysadmin vision. I though it meant
multiple pheasants, but it's actually just two as several people have
pointed out. www.m-w.com says that it comes from the latin braccia (arms),
which I guess makes some sort of twisted sense.

Still, its amazing what you learn off ILUG.

'sprong' is pretty cool, but it's already used in C:
http://www.goat.demon.co.uk/sprong.html


Cheers,
Brian.