On May 3, 2008, at 6:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
factotum comes from the Charles Bukowski's book?
i thought the reference was older
minooka; dict
*/factotum/
1 Fac*to"tum
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Fac*to"tum (făk*tō"tŭm), n.; pl. Factotums (- tŭmz). [L., do
everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See /Fact/,
and /Total/.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
B. Jonson.
- erik
And that definition relates to the factotum system how? We define it
as so:
Fac*to"tum (făk*tō"tŭm), n.; pl. Factotums (- tŭmz). [L., do
everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See /Fact/,
and /Total/.] The centralization of anything that has to do
with authentication.
Given the dictionary definition, Plan 9 is a factotum.
