From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 19 21:40:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blkbox.com (blkbox.com [206.109.97.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074701AA53 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phil@blkbox.com) Received: from phil (s85.houston.box.net [206.109.96.114]) by blkbox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA03799 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:40:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000f01bf1ab5$1416bb20$72606dce@phil> From: "Phil Priest" Cc: References: <19991019160446.63929.qmail@hotmail.com> <380D32E1.37DD417A@confusion.net> Subject: Re: cron GNU??? Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:39:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Why is it called a "CRON" job? I've noticed that there is a reason > > >for > > >just about every name in UNIX, but I still fail to see what Conan the > > >barbarian's warrior god has to do with anything... I didn't know > > >Cimmerians > > >even used computers... Conan's god is Crom, not CRON. -phil > > > > I guess it's just another "Stupid Acronym" among the rest. WTF does GNU > > stand for??? I know GNU is "GNU's not unix" or "GNU not unix"?? But what > > does the "GNU" in "GNU's not unix" stand for?? (Here's a reall good one for > > ya .... any takers?????.) > > > > -cosmic-665 > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > -- > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for > 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a > 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, > written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for > 1 bit of competition. > http://stuy.debate.net > icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 > The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland > All rights reserved > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message