Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:59:18 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sub Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980824224751.3496A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808250516.XAA03417@obie.softweyr.com>
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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Wes Peters wrote: >I'm glad *somebody* finally got that. ;^) > >By the way, how did your system come to be named "weber"? I (along with >the illustrious Terry Lambert) am an alumus of Weber State University, >but the spelling (and pronounciation "wee-bur") is rare outside, er, >Weber County. I think has to do with some sort of physics. Weber has the unit of magnetic flux named in his honor. weber = tesla * m^2. I have always called it Webber, but I also call Linux Line-ux. It is one of those things I have only read and have never heard spoken by anyone who really knows what is what. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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