From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 14: 8:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA4237B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelfish.lewiz.org (dialup.212-50-180-115.karoo.KCOM.COM [212.50.180.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07EDF43E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@turtle.lewiz.org) Received: (qmail 36179 invoked by uid 85); 4 Nov 2002 22:08:22 -0000 Received: from lewiz@turtle.lewiz.org by angelfish by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (sophie: 2.10/3.62. spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(-3.3/5.0):. Processed in 1.939858 secs); 04 Nov 2002 22:08:22 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 Received: from turtle.lewiz.org (192.168.0.9) by angelfish.lewiz.org with SMTP; 4 Nov 2002 22:08:17 -0000 Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by turtle.lewiz.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) id gA4M8Vh5001187; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:08:31 GMT (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:08:31 +0000 From: lewiz To: Larry Rosenman Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: ``root''? Message-ID: <20021104220831.GA1142@lewiz.org> References: <20021104220037.GA1110@lewiz.org> <1036447407.804.36.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1036447407.804.36.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:26PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:00, lewiz wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? I've just been > > doing some calculus as part of my math. homework and I've just written > > down ``there are no ``real'' roots'' - is this possibly something to do > > with the meaning of ``root'' - i.e. root =3D answer? > Root of the user tree. Root of all users. Root of the machine.=20 >=20 > Tradition.=20 Maybe I was reading into it just a bit too deep then... ;) >=20 > --=20 > Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler > Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org > US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 -lewiz. --=20 Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9xu/fItq0KFQv7T8RAkwRAJwI7EoX6tG0cPqmQzPRpkHE++cldgCbBqxw DqwuJ8oqg6wryegfjV15TqE= =o1ZB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message