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 1QMEXN-0001Eu-BK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:17:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18B7A1C25A; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC67D1C25A for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C4D4D80144 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 08:16:25 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:16:20 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) Message-ID: <20110517081620.5ec4d908@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201105170149.29658.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <20110516232808.GA21690@gaurahari> <201105170149.29658.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs22 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/zNxehU/KhQA_URqwhO65LSz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 80503e81cf45b5859904fd30e7d8a37f --Sig_/zNxehU/KhQA_URqwhO65LSz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: should be > referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. "it", as befitting > their overall contribution to humanity. >=20 > You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte > without even blinking an eye? It takes nerves of steel and much > practise to pull that one off, I tell you! >=20 > Let's see how long it takes Neil to find the grammar errors in that > lot :-) >=20 Well, since you asked... > All objects of technology (aka stuff what we work on), Stuff WHAT we work on? > Users, n00bs, marketing persons, hairdressers, telephone handset > sanitizers and other assorted riff-raff of the human species Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, so that should be telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) Oh, and it should be grammatical errors :P --=20 Neil Bothwick I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. --Sig_/zNxehU/KhQA_URqwhO65LSz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3SIMgACgkQum4al0N1GQM2FgCeLIaILMksETwQGgLBpeGS45FD 418An1cXTuMXl1MrwBIzyM6xHxyTs7Qh =Y2kY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/zNxehU/KhQA_URqwhO65LSz--