Ralph Shumaker wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> Ralph Shumaker wrote: >> >> >>> James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Ralph Shumaker wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Nicholas Wheeler wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I don't know about the other repositories, but: >>>>>> >>>>>> deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl edgy-seveas all >>>>>> >>>>>> is a great repository, I've talked to Seveas online multiple times. >>>>>> The good thing about hosting in .nl, I believe is Seveas can host >>>>>> firmware blobs (bcm43xx, etc) in .deb form so users can easily >>>>>> "apt-get" install their firmware for their card, as compiling a >>>>>> firmware extractor, extracting firmware from the driver, and putting >>>>>> it in the correct location may be a bit too much for first time >>>>>> users. >>>>>> The hosting in .nl might possibly also account for the >>>>>> distrobution of >>>>>> proprietary codecs that are needed to make a fully functioning linux >>>>>> desktop. >>>>>> >>>>> s/distrobution/distribution/ >>>>> >>>>> I was wondering how long it would be before the word "distribution" >>>>> would be affected by "distro". >>>>> >>>>> (And he used such good spelling otherwise.) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Henceforth, we must all use >>>> d10n >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Huh? >>> >> >> distribution >> d1234567890n >> >> 10 in-betweeners >> >> > > Scratching my head... > > (It's probably something obvious.)
Okay, you've probably never seen it before, but there are several places where long words are abbreviated by first letter, number of intervening letters, last letter. All of these have wikipedia entries, I think: I18N L10N C14N (no page yet, but almost) see Canonicalization Anybody else got any? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
