On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:02 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> The "!" being called "bang" is sort of self-evident to anyone who's
> read any comics or watched the campy 1960s "Batman" series.
When I worked in the printing industry in the UK (*many* years ago) it
was called "shriek". A colleague called
On 07/19/2010 10:17 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:03 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
>
>> The # is an invented character that originated at AT&T for touch tone
>> dialing. The official name is "octothorpe" - Greek for "8 points"...
>> but no one ever calls it that.
No, it exist
On Monday 19 July 2010 18:17:45 Adam Williamson wrote:
> See my post - it's only called 'pound sign' in the States. British
> people never call it that. Don't know what it's called in other
> countries.
Cardinal in Portuguese following the mathematical sense.
>From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.o
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:03 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> The # is an invented character that originated at AT&T for touch tone
> dialing. The official name is "octothorpe" - Greek for "8 points"...
> but no one ever calls it that.
I know =)
> I think it got called "pound sign" because it was pl
On Monday, July 19, 2010, 12:45:30 PM, Adam wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:02 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> > A shebang is one of those bits at the start of a script that looks like
>> > this:
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> >
>> > which tells the system what shell the script is supposed to be run wi
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:02 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > A shebang is one of those bits at the start of a script that looks like
> > this:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > which tells the system what shell the script is supposed to be run with.
> > The shebang is the #! part. The # is the 'she', the
On 07/19/2010 07:35 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 23:01 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
>
>> BobLfoot's next comment: I just ran yum update
>> --enable-repo=updates-testing --skip-broken -y and when I went to run
>> f-e-k I was presented with three packages to provide feedback on
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 23:01 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
> BobLfoot's next comment: I just ran yum update
> --enable-repo=updates-testing --skip-broken -y and when I went to run
> f-e-k I was presented with three packages to provide feedback on. 1)
> ppp 2) xorg-x11-xinit 3) xsane-common and xsan
