From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 17:59:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D077C37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB21whF37727; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:58:44 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:58:42 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Brian Beattie Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: Pronunciations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > Brian Beattie wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > > > > > > > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh" > > > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day." > > > > > > twiddle > > > > A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one that the > > boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader, haven't had to reboot in > > a while. :) > > > No you are wrong The spinning thingy is called a "propeller". > > Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, > beattie@aracnet.com | standards based software. Users of Microsoft > beattie@aracnet.com | products or other substandard software should > www.aracnet.com/~beattie | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to > | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message