From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 0:52: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6488614C9A for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 00:51:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA73849; Tue, 11 May 1999 00:51:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: Request For Better Communications] In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 19:56:51 BST." Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 00:51:42 -0700 Message-ID: <73845.926409102@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm sure I've seen fairings being used in commit messages recently, have we > adopted it as part of the FreeBSD jargon, what does it mean in that context? It's thrown out in discussion whenever a completely nonsensical argument in one's favor(?) is called for, I.E. at the end of a really long thread for which the outcome is no longer even cared about since everyone is now so sick of it or in rebuttal to another nonsensical argument ("Change the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What about fairings?"). > While I'm on this subject, what the hell does GC stand for? It's used when > things get deleted. Garbage Collect. Another man sadly deprived of LISP in his university CS curriculum, I see. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message