[ILUG] When servers grow up ....

Ray Kelly ray at skynet.ie
Fri Sep 1 16:48:03 IST 2000


"Foley, Brian (Galway)" wrote:
> 
> '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.

I'm still waiting for that wingbeat + laden (african) swallow answer!
 
> 'sprong' is pretty cool, but it's already used in C:
> http://www.goat.demon.co.uk/sprong.html

twoddle to that ...
A sprong is a two pronged pitchfork used for tossing hay & straw!
Should also be great as LARTs for use aganinst those who kill the power
on your Linux boxen[0]  cause they always seem _very_ sharp at the
points.

	Ray ...

[0] pathetic effort to drag this back on topic!




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