From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 25 22:51:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580CA14E4B for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26614; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:51:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36FB2E69.FE47E543@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:51:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: For French readers: Nice article in 'LMI' References: <199903241019.LAA03626@rt2.synx.com> <36F8FB3B.96F7E718@softweyr.com> <19990325213508.B259@marder-1.localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 07:48:27AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > > > > > > FYI > > > > > > http://www.lmi.fr/c12565ef002d29ae/996ef68a9fd10db3c125669e00311b6a/d1e004841bd6acf0c125673800518e6a?OpenDocument > > > > > > For English readers: Summary: > > > > A nice article. Non French readers can get a somewhat stilted > > translation from Babelfish. Browse http://babelfish.altavista.com/ > > paste the above URL into the box, select French to English translation, > > and fire. > > > > I tried that Wes and it produced a very readable result. The > translation included a couple of sentences that really made me > chuckle though.... > > "Even Microsoft prefers it with Windows NT to manage its service > of Hotmail electronic mail, which counts several million subscribers" I think that should've been "prefers it to". Babelfish comes up with some real weiners sometimes. ;^) > "Most powerful and most stable. And it is not the opinion of the > only bearded and hairy system administrators swearing only by the > Unix free" Hey, that's ME they're talking about there... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message