according to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258509/etymology-of-linux-commands it says << "
The Unix biff cmd (announce arrival of emails) was named after someone's dog who barked whenever the mailman arrived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff Many other such interesting tidbits from the early days of computing can be found in The Jargon File.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File " >> but the text at the [[Biff]] article (see link above) says, in part, << " The Jargon File <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File> contradicts[3]<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/biff.html> (URL of that link = http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/biff.html) this [...] but confirms at least that the dog existed. " >> -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ [email protected] On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote: > Look up an old app called biff > > On 1/3/09, Nathan England <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 January 2009 08:44:50 [email protected] > > wrote: > >> First read the first few lines of: > >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard > >> > >> Then jump to: > >> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard > >> > >> I wonder where Molly is now... :) > >> ET > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > > > > [...] My > > Pastor's son likes to push every button [...] > > one day, we found him standing next to the server pushing the > > button. We promptly moved the server up much higher. [...] > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] >
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