For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia:
The application of *Gentoo* to the penguin is unclear, according to
the *OED<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED>
*, which reports that *Gentoo* was an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as
1638 to distinguish Hindus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu> in India
from Muslims, the English term originating in Portuguese *gentio* (compare "
gentile <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile>"); in the twentieth century
the term came to be regarded as
derogatory<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derogatory>
.
This needs to be followed up. One interesting publication would be
@article{calaby1999european,
title={The European Discovery and Scientific Description of
Australian Birds.},
author={Calaby, JH},
journal={Historical Records of Australian Science},
volume={12},
number={3},
pages={313--329},
year={1999},
publisher={CSIRO}
}
to which I do not have access. However, this investigation is not
over. The scientific name of the Gentoo Penguin is *Pygoscelis papua.
It should not be difficult to find the original description?*
Alan Davis
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 12/21/2011 04:59 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM,
>> LinuxIsOne<reallife@hmamail.**com<reall...@hmamail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder<dan...@admin-box.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow:
>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=27727<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727>
>>>>
>>>
>>> But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser!
>>>
>>>
>> That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by
>> default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate
>> throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your
>> trusted authorities.
>>
>
> What sucks is that you can't even get rid of the warnings even if you
> accept and add the cert to Firefox. Every time you click on an attachment
> in a bug, you get presented with a warning dialog again, and again, and
> again, and again, until you get mad and start shooting bunnies. That's
> because the domain changes with attachments (for some reason, b.g.o. uses
> subdomains instead of URLs to link to attachments.)
>
> So it's either add cacert.org to your trusted authorities, or live in
> hell when browsing b.g.o. IMO that's just stupid. I want to trust just
> b.g.o, not every site out there that has a cacert certificate. Stupid.
> Just stupid.
>
>
>
