it's starting to make sense.
>From: Marshall Dudley <
[email protected]>
>Reply-To:
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>To:
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>Subject: Re: CS>tweaking
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:45:56 -0500
>
>elle roberts wrote:
>
> > Thankyou Mike =)
> >
> > And others ... for the explanation.
> > I didn't realise *tweak* was a dictionary word! I thought it was
> > something specific to CS.
> >
> > Definition in oxford school dictionary ...'to pinch and twist or pull
> > something sharply'...(ouch.)
> >
>
>That definition may be good for the S&M crowd, but for techs a tweak is
>normally something much more subtle. I think originally it referred to
>the twisting of a pot (a variable control) or a screw to shift the
>result to what was wanted. For instance, my VCR started dropping out a
>few days ago, so I removed the cover and found a screw that moved the
>tape up and down by a few thousanths of an inch. I "tweaked" the screw
>moving the tape up by an amount I could not even see, and it fixed it.
>
>Marshall
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