From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 12:01:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8C91065672 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from forensixs@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 577EB8FC12 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18753 invoked by uid 0); 21 Oct 2009 12:01:21 -0000 Received: from 78.53.193.141 by www024.gmx.net with HTTP; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:01:20 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:01:20 +0200 From: "Manuel Gebele" In-Reply-To: <863a5dt5ec.fsf@ds4.des.no> Message-ID: <20091021120120.163550@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20091021100451.98450@gmx.net> <863a5dt5ec.fsf@ds4.des.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22?= X-Authenticated: #52019271 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+lpEJOL0uldLbEjUQpjVehCurABbuobqYxl+0vqW 3fOpZnBsEuVn4B5x3V43izPqCmwfHeQqRYTg== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: KcDoA6t4QEV/BnD2cHZpNjdCNzg2NUIa X-FuHaFi: 0.51 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD DAQ Card Facility [DCF] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:23 -0000 on 21/10/2009 12:20 Dag-Erling Smørgrav said the following: > I don't understand why it has to be so complicated. > What's wrong with just "DAQ"? [...] What please is complicated in ``FreeBSD DAQ Facility''? Whats about KLD ``Dynamic Kernel Linker Facility''? BTW, if I send you a private email and you answer to the list, it would be great if you could put in all of the email content: on 20/10/2009 15:24 Dag-Erling Smørgrav said the following: > First, when you answer a question on a mailing list, > it is customary to use your MUA's "reply" function and > to quote the question. Otherwise, there is nothing to > tie the answer to the question, and nobody will understand > anything, except possibly the person who asked the question > in the first place. [...] Oh, my mistake sorry for that. I'm not an ML expert at all, and that was my first message to a list (in that 'reply' context). > That being taken care of - the reason I asked is that > to me (and to many other time boffins and NTP > fundamentalists), DCF is a longwave radio station in > Frankfurt which is commonly used as an external reference > for NTP servers. DCF(77) is in the near of "Frankfurt am Main (not Oder)" thats true. On the other side, there are so many definitions for DCF; Data Capture Facility, Data Compression Facility and so on (look at http://www.acronymfinder.com/DCF.html). We get problems if we open ``/dev/dcf77'' --maybe =) Whats about the MSF station in Rugby --england? MSF - Microsoft Solutions Framework (please no jokes about $MS) MSF - Metasploit Framework Whats about code with an 'VLF' acronym =) ? --better not But I understand your point, maybe we should exclude any misunderstandings. > I would have just called it DAQ, which as you know is > an established abbreviation for "Data Acquisition". [...] I have no objection to that naming. Maybe I should call it just ``FreeBSD DAQ Facility'' (FDF). Thanks, Manuel Gebele -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser