From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 24 23:41:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09666 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09646 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at) Received: from scesie04.sie.siemens.at (root@[10.1.140.1]) by zwei.siemens.at with ESMTP id IAA03103; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:40:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scegud01.gud.siemens.at (scegud01.gud.siemens.at [195.3.240.30]) by scesie04.sie.siemens.at () with ESMTP id IAA27333; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:40:22 +0200 (METDST) Received: from pc8811.gud.siemens.at (pc8811.gud.siemens.at [195.3.22.159]) by scegud01.gud.siemens.at (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29833; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:40:22 +0200 (METDST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:51:43 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Siemens Austria AG From: Marino Ladavac To: "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Re: sub Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24-Aug-98 Jason C. Wells wrote: > > 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 ^^^^^^Closer, but no cigar :) > I have only read and have never heard spoken by anyone who really knows > what is what. Unless my mind is failing worse than I'm ready to admit, Herr Weber was a German, thus the pronunciation could be transliterated Veh-bah, with a long eh sound. /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message