Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need a name for the vinum daemon Message-ID: <19981020143204.Q433@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810200457.VAA00342@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 09:57:24PM -0700 References: <19981020130900.M433@freebie.lemis.com> <199810200457.VAA00342@dingo.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Monday, 19 October 1998 at 21:57:24 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> You probably know about Vinum, my new volume manager (see >> http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html if you don't). You may not know that >> the name is a play on words. "Vinum" is Latin for "wine", and I >> derived the name from the Latin saying "In vino veritas" (In wine is >> truth). >> >> Now I find I need a daemon to do some work that requires process >> context. What should I call the daemon? There should be all sorts of >> word plays on the devil drink and such, but I can't think of anything >> appropriate. If anybody can suggest a good name, preferably Latin, >> I'll give you a bottle of wine (or at least a Vinum core dump :-) > > Bacchus, of course. It's certainly getting the votes, isn't it? > You might try "satyrd" for two different puns involving wine, :-) > "faund" (depending on how obsequious the daemon is), or more banal > items like "vintnerd" (I thought that was almost too obvious), "vd" > (possible indirect consequence), "yeast" (if it helps make vinum > what it is), and probably more. I'm desperately trying to remember > the proper name for winemaking, but I'm stuffed if I can come up > with it just now. What's wrong with "winemaking"? Are you trying to think of oenology? That's really the study rather than the practice, not a problem in itself, but it's Greek, and the Americans appear not to know it at all. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981020143204.Q433>