From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 0:59: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC46714F8C for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 00:59:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA21517; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:09:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199905110809.SAA21517@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: [Re: Request For Better Communications] In-Reply-To: <73845.926409102@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 11, 1999 0:51:42 am" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:09:56 +1000 (EST) Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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?"). Well for those of us who have bikes with fairings, it does mean something, just not in the context used on FreeBSD lists. So I ask, what about the fairing on the Hayabusa?!! 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message