So, there's this technology company that is involved with this Commie software called Ubuntu. I've given up trying to pronounce "ubuntu", and rely on It Which Must Be Obeyed, the television set. I refer specifically to the closing of some TV show, where the voice-over says, "Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog, Ubu."
So I call this software "Ubu" because I know how to pronounce Ubu. But how to you say "Canonical"? It could be "CA-non -- ick-il", like the 18th century weapon, followed by an 'ick', and then an 'il', like I want to ride my motorcycle. Or it could be "ca-NON -- ick-il", sounds sort of Catholic, in a caTHOL-ickil way. Or, given that Mark S. is a South African or Norwegian or Texan or something like that, it might be something.... weird, like... CAN-o-nickel, as if you went collecting for the Salvation Army and everyone who walked out had bought something for $0.95 and had only that semi-shiny grey coin in their pocket left. Whil P.S. Interesting read on section II of the WSJ today; Attributor Corp. in the Valley has come out with software that will have scanned 10 billion Web pages by EOM in search of illegal digital content. They say they can detect a copy of a fingerprinted file for one of their clients with just a few sentences or a few seconds of audio/video. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
