Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:58:01 +0200 From: Well Educated <nospam@nospam.nospam.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org> Subject: Re: typo in FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc Message-ID: <3CF79D89.6A5FF823@nospam.nospam.net>
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>> "X Windows" - what is it, "XP Windows" or "Windows XP" maybe?
>> Let's use true terms to the things.
>
> Hmm, I've never been someone who likes endless debates about small bits and
> pieces which have no effect at all on, well, anything. In context of the
> Security Advisory, I don't think that writing "X Windows" instead of "X" or
> "X Window System" introduces a security hole, or makes it hard to
> understand what the Advisory is talking about. Therefore, I guess most
> people have better things to do than to worry about this one...
>
> Greetings
> Nils
I didn't say it introduces any security hole or understanding obstacle. But the term "X Windows"
just shows crass ignorance of people that use it. Insted of making flames, the typo can be simply
corrected.
P.S. your reaction casted me to remember the following text :-))
Five year phase-in plan for "EuroEnglish"
The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which
was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's
government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and
has accepted a five year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour
of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less
letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always
ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of
the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl
riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it
ezi to understand each ozer
ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
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