From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 19 22:03:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06226 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06220 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA11248; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:26 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA02838; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:05 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981020143204.Q433@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Need a name for the vinum daemon References: <19981020130900.M433@freebie.lemis.com> <199810200457.VAA00342@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810200457.VAA00342@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 09:57:24PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 19 October 1998 at 21:57:24 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> You probably know about Vinum, my new volume manager (see >> http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html if you don't). You may not know that >> the name is a play on words. "Vinum" is Latin for "wine", and I >> derived the name from the Latin saying "In vino veritas" (In wine is >> truth). >> >> Now I find I need a daemon to do some work that requires process >> context. What should I call the daemon? There should be all sorts of >> word plays on the devil drink and such, but I can't think of anything >> appropriate. If anybody can suggest a good name, preferably Latin, >> I'll give you a bottle of wine (or at least a Vinum core dump :-) > > Bacchus, of course. It's certainly getting the votes, isn't it? > You might try "satyrd" for two different puns involving wine, :-) > "faund" (depending on how obsequious the daemon is), or more banal > items like "vintnerd" (I thought that was almost too obvious), "vd" > (possible indirect consequence), "yeast" (if it helps make vinum > what it is), and probably more. I'm desperately trying to remember > the proper name for winemaking, but I'm stuffed if I can come up > with it just now. What's wrong with "winemaking"? Are you trying to think of oenology? That's really the study rather than the practice, not a problem in itself, but it's Greek, and the Americans appear not to know it at all. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message