On Thu, September 25, 2014 7:32 pm, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 18:16 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> >> On 09/25/2014 05:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> > >> > Maybe we can get it into extras? I mentioned something from his repo >> to my >> > manager, who understandably balked at a Russian server (this is a US >> gov't >> > agency (non-DoD) that we work at.... > >> li.nux.ro, that's Romania not Russia. > > USA people are not too familiar with Europe which extends from the > Arctic circle (Svalbard, 81º North, Norwegian) to the Mediterranean, and > from the French coast to the Ural mountains in Russia. The 28 countries > of the EU have a population exceeding 800 million (the USA's is about > 307m). That leaves about 22 European countries not (yet) in the EU. >
My take would be he just didn't focus on the domain name. Sysadmins usually decipher those into geographical location easily. I admire Europe: everybody speaks multiple languages. BTW one of our professors brought this joke when he came back from Europe. If I wasn't sure the joke has long-long beard I would think he made it up himself...: Person who speaks 2 languages: bilingual, 3 languages: trilingual; 1 language: American ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
