Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, Syllables, Genders, Email Servers etc.
| From: | <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 17:12 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> Indeed. I would have had to use a new naming scheme for any additional
> computers; I feel that naming a computer "down" would be asking for
> trouble, and I just couldn't bring myself to name one "bottom" for
> other reasons. :)
For that matter, naming a computer "up" was a bad idea in the first place:
it leads to silly-sounding sentences like "Is up down?" and "Boot up up."
See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt for details on this and other
bad ideas for computer names; http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2100.txt for
another view of the subject.
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The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace,
We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall,
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