On 21 Feb 2003 18:49:14 -0800 Justin Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello zerotransfer, > > I've always enjoyed religious debates, but the list probably tires of > them, and if we keep this up, one of the list admins will probably tell > us to 'take it outside'. But as a final followup, there are sacred > numbers in every religion, as far as I know, and if we in the IT sector, > which is very number heavy, paid attention to what superstition somebody > may hold with a certain number, our jobs would become ever more > complicated. In Japanese, the word shi ("she") means 4 and death. This is the basis for the custom of never giving a gift of four things. Tea cup and sake cup sets always come with five cups, so that the giver does not wish death upon the recipient. I suppose that setting a file's permissions to -rw-r--r- (644) gets a laugh when thought of as read-write kill kill; reminds me of some USENET news group names. Except those prefered die-die, and in Japanese dai means big. Programmers often use certain patterns to indicate dummy data. I was taught to use nines for that. In the handbook, I might have used *default host=cvsup999.FreeBSD.org It does not take a leap of faith to presume that the author uses 666 where I would use 999, with no offense intended regardless of race, creed, or color. -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Gary Dunn _/ _/ Open Slate Project _/ _/ http://openslate.sourceforge.net/ _/ _/ http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ _/ _/ Honolulu _/ _/ registered Linux user #273809 _/ _/ _/ _/ This tagline is umop apisdn. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message