From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 30 04:47:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18435 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18430 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zOKia-0002hV-00; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:46:53 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA00883; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:46:37 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08844; Wed, 30 Sep 98 12:46:35 BST Message-Id: <36121A03.42CEFA7C@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:46:11 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Marino Ladavac Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abbreviation (was: Re: Compelling reason for SCSI device nam References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marino Ladavac wrote: > > On 30-Sep-98 Mark Ovens wrote: > > Scott Mitchell wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:45:06AM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > >> > On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Brian Cully wrote: > >> > > On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 06:18:22PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > > > OK, let's try again, since Jordan obviously wasn't able to guess what > >> > > > your question means. > >> > > > >> > > ITYM Justin, HTH, HAND. > >> > > >> > I see this set of abbreviations with some regularity, but have not yet > >> > seen an explanation. Have you got one for me? Thanks! > >> > > >> > Eivind. > >> > >> AFAIK, > >> > >> ITYM = I Think You Mean > >> HTH = Hope {This,That} Helps > >> HAND = Have A Nice Day > >> > > > > OK, since we're on the subject of abbreviations, what about NIH? > > NIH was Not Invented Here; you should ask our friends in L* camp :) That was the context I saw it in... "...I'm quite tired of the totally non-portable stuff that Linux perpetrates with its NIH syndrome." > > /Marino -- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message