From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MwwQy-00078t-Bh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:17:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4170BE07CA; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f205.google.com (mail-ew0-f205.google.com [209.85.219.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05906E07CA for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so131553ewy.34 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:17:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=7tRJmfk/Nn/6ZozEJuokoqOkekKlBOSiVTjZ9SwuO6I=; b=m2VnqTWJMNCuWijAGND3w+E54iaAQLXFLAkUVD4frmTzTQwGHzMqpVjAuTC7lkfu7D X3PHSlIBM2uHXAw04GQxXxfS3rblBkDyIlHQ3TpoDwdb9R6RpMACs9Bj4YyGhH8YXa8e U/HvAQdniVYxZvXtK20SKw15SvOaCGkvcKotA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=VvghT7JjtXd1wmf97Ed4Do1NMwi/7qLryoMKtwG+2+J1Ixj2NbPPJEKdGSBDk3gNEX +aH+V6Ce53RwqcfRiWTn60k50aFIYEFHed9YUE6Hqc5DSGnDapv4rBiHxGO+JKp7xyKe ECg7Qt9UYJ1FYNyeAT5VyQShPr0HnY+eWuqmA= Received: by 10.211.130.6 with SMTP id h6mr5663971ebn.97.1255259870294; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3618942eyg.35.2009.10.11.04.17.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:17:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:17:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.1r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20091011090443.GE21168@solfire> <200910111158.19246.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <1255259268.126855.5.camel@centar> In-Reply-To: <1255259268.126855.5.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910111317.46495.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2290ba28-395d-4a38-91cd-b947d3f53c78 X-Archives-Hash: 5522c389d1fa91c3af38e2b7c4eac87c On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it > > This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word "packet" used a lot > lately to describe software. I always think "is this a new thing or did > they mean 'package'? > > I tried doing my own investigation. Googling "software packet" returns > mostly software about network monitoring. Googling "software package" > returns just what you'd expect. Yet I've heard a few people lately > describe software as a "packet". Did these people phonetically mis-hear > "package" as "packet"? Is this something new? Sometimes I think to > correct these people but perhaps I'm the one who needs correcting? > Paket = packet Paket = package too lazy to remember which one is what.