Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:37:33 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 01:01:54PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: .... > As you can see, LOTS of info is printed out. I don't really follow what > it all means, except the 'SHIT', which happily tells me something BAD happened. :) > Of course, for all I know 'SHIT' could be a valid reister. ;)
Indeed, this entire talk reminds me of names/abbreviations that cisco egineering seems to give to their gadgets. I just noticed that some LAN-switch had a new CAM (Content Addressable Memory) unit called: SuperCAM naturally its abbreviation is SCAM :-)
Also the Cisco 12000 router used to be called "BFR", until somebody at marketing (?) finally heard the words behind the abbreviation, and now it is "GSR" ... ("Big Fucking Router" -> "Giga Switch Router") (It could have been originally something like: Billion Frame Router, but that isn't as cheeky as the latter meaning...)
We could of course change all apparently english profanities to e.g. finnish ones, and only tight-minded finns (they do exist, unfortunately) would take offence...
But this entire P.C. talk is pointless. If you can IMPROVE some error report, then go ahead and submit it, otherwise don't mess with things that don't need messing with.
> Stephen
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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