From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 21 17:54:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CA737B416 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from hibernate.cryolabs.net ([213.132.151.88]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with SMTP id <20020222015433.OXGL25529.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@hibernate.cryolabs.net> for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:54:33 +0100 Received: (qmail 6022 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2002 02:54:31 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO cocaine.cryolabs.net) (192.168.196.5) by hibernate.cryolabs.net with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 02:54:31 +0100 Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Michael Lucas Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020221201254.A30956@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <20020221034421.AE58A3E35@bazooka.trit.org> <20020221201254.A30956@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 22 Feb 2002 02:54:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1014342876.177.305.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 02:12, Michael Lucas wrote: > Okay, $0.02 from Mr. Not Enough Sleep And Far Too Cranky for Words: > > Strong point: > > Internal docs consistency is important. We must pick a standard for > these terms, and stick with it. > Everybody agrees with that, I guess. The question is: which? Maybe we should send this bomb to -hackers too... > We need standard symbols for this, preferably entities. > Uhm... Do we plan on changing our _units_ weekly or so... > [...] > > Blue. With green poka-dots. Or I torch the whole shed to the ground > and salt the earth it stood upon. > But where will I live then... > ==ml > > -- > Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org > my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message