From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 11:41:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAB716A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:41:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsvc.com (iowa.coinfotech.com [209.12.32.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607A443D45 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:41:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from apredoehl@go.mailsvc.com) Received: by mailsvc.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.8) with PIPE id 29272884; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:46:01 -0700 Received: from [212.42.97.42] (account apredoehl@go.mailsvc.com HELO drew) by mailsvc.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 29272862 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:45:53 -0700 Message-ID: <005601c3d61e$fcad88e0$0100007f@kafu.east.kz> From: "Andrew Predoehl" To: Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:05:22 +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 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-CIT-MailScanner-Information: Please contact 719-473-2800 for more information X-CIT-MailScanner: Not scanned for viruses: Contact Colorado Information Technologies at 1-866-469-3310 to add Virus and Spam filtering services X-CIT-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Subject: What are they talking about??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:41:39 -0000 Hello! I'm reading with some interest the tempest that's a-blowin' on -chat, and as a newbie, I just got here and I'm wondering what the heck these people are talking about. A few questions (not -questions questions, just newbie questions): What's bikeshedding, or a bikeshed disagreement? What's the heck are GEOM and SMP? What's a WIKI? Anybody know a dictionary of these acronyms that I read all the time? I can figure out 90% of them but some of them (like PITA*) leave me mystified... Andrew * e.g., from freebsd-mobile vol. 42 #1 msg 3, 5 Jan 2004.