...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab" I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole...
Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint. > Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial > security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword- > bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing > base". Cheers, RAH Who liked "Palladiated", too... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'