From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 24 23:04:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06371 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:04:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06353 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA10766; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:03:29 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id XAA10851; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:59:18 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Wes Peters cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sub In-Reply-To: <199808250516.XAA03417@obie.softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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