From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:14:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130111001418.730ec4a6@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130110214115.GA12004@waltdnes.org>
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:41:15 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:42:30PM -0800, felix@crowfix.com wrote
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:01:57 -0600
> > > Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Since this is
> > > > depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained
> > >
> > > <nitpick>
> > >
> > > The word you want is "deprecated".
> > >
> > > "depreciated" is something else entirely, it's what your employer
> > > does to the book value of your company car over 5 years to get
> > > the value down to nothing.
> > >
> > > </nitpick>
> >
> > "Depreciated" is perfectly cromulent in this instance.
>
> You really think it's copacetic?
>
I never heard of copacetic till now, had to look it up.
What a wonderful word, I feel embiggened by it's correctness
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 7:16 [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 9:01 ` Dale
2013-01-09 9:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 9:59 ` Dale
2013-01-09 10:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 18:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-09 22:42 ` felix
2013-01-10 21:41 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-10 22:14 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-01-24 3:42 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-01-09 9:57 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 10:35 ` Dale
2013-01-09 18:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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