ha ha...good one there!
regards,
Foo Ji-Haw ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
T-Nova
raum 6067
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] just wondering... (alex & arandir)
> Considering how much time we all spend continually tweaking files in
> this directory maybe it stands for 'Eternally Time Consuming.'
>
> Ken Wilson
> First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
> irrelevant
> (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Berger
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:37 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] just wondering... (alex & arandir)
> >
> >
> > Arandir wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Alex Flinsch wrote:
> > >
> > > > >From the Latin "et cetera", which loosely translated
> > means "all of the
> > > > other stuff I need, but always forget about". I suppose
> > the modern American
> > > > English version is "junk drawer".
> > >
> > > "et" = and
> > > "cetera" = among others
> > >
> > > --
> > > Arandir...
> > > _______________________________
> > > <http://www.meer.net/~arandir/>
> >
> >
> > Well, I knew that part but this doesn't seem to make sense,
> > since /etc contains
> > *vital* files. Contradictory. Maybe understatement? Who knows...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > tom
> >
> > --
> > "Never trust a Shoggoth!"
> > Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > LSTB - "advancing the community"
> >
>
