Ping
noun
1: a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya
[syn: {Ping River}]
2: a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet
striking metal)
ALSO:
The funniest use of 'ping' to date was described in January 1991 by
Steve Hayman on the Usenet group comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate
a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine,
and got tired of having to run back to his console after each cabling
tweak to see if the ping packets were getting through. So he used the
sound-recording feature on the NeXT, then wrote a script that repeatedly
invoked 'ping(8)', listened for an echo, and played back the recording
on each returned packet. Result? A program that caused the machine to
repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ... ping ..." as long as the
network was up. He turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the
building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no
time.
Source: http://define.com/ping
The Ping River, along with the Nan River, is one of the two main
contributaries of Chao Phraya River.[2] It originates at Doi Chiang Dao
in Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai Province. After passing Chiang Mai
town, it flows though the provinces Lamphun, Tak, and Kamphaeng Phet. At
the confluence with the Nan River at Nakhon Sawan (also named Paknam Pho
in Thai) it forms the Chao Phraya River.
Sam
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