So I leave my computer for a couple hours, return to what appears to be
the quickest pile olf emails in my box in recent history...and very few
had ladies names in the return field.
I feel as if I should do a quick--albeit somewhat "uninformed"--input.
To be fair and upfront, I am somewhat of
Peter Snoblin wrote:
The fallacy here revolves around the people who will never see an
explanation. Unless you want to put something like this on every thing
that bears FSCK: "* File System Checker, a well known UNIX/UNIX like
Operating System tool." A bit awkward, yes?
IMHO, TSLUG posters have
iosif wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 11:15 pm):
> 2. for those who don't get the principle: Phi Sigma Pi, often
> abbreviated (in both writing and the spoken language) PSP,
> Pan-Hellenic Council is shortened to NPC, and the Public Broadcasting
> Service and National Broadcasting Company are of
iosif wrote:
the eff-sock pronunciation brings it back down to 2 for the syllabically
ephemerous, on par with the efficiency of a spoken TSLUG.
Not to mention how beautiful it would be once we all started "to
eff-sock" as a verb. :p
"Tired of Windows crashing? Want to know more about Linux? Eff
the eff-sock pronunciation brings it back down to 2 for the syllabically
ephemerous, on par with the efficiency of a spoken TSLUG.
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1. if people want they can say fsssk, but some people have already objected
to that. FS-check takes no longer to pronounce than FSC or any other 3
letter combination. granted, TSLUG was only 2 syllables.
2. for those who don't get the principle: Phi Sigma Pi, often abbreviated
(in both writing
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:37:25PM -0500, Peter Snoblin wrote:
> iosif wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 10:12 pm):
> > 1. it's pronounced something like F.S.-check, as in, "there's an F S
> > check meeting tonight, and man it has a cool name". as for lacking
> > vowels, a lot of abbreviations an
Well, from everything I've seen/heard most people do actually say it
fsssk. Sure, it stands for the File System Checker, but why say
something long like "FS-Check" when fsssk is so much faster. Also,
most, if not all, of the examples you give are spelled out when said,
eg. Bee Bee Bee, Pee Bee
First and formost, lets keep things civil. Everybody is entitled to an
opinion and more than welcome to express it. There's no need to get
snippy. Now, I trust that no more will need to be said along these
lines.
iosif wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 10:12 pm):
> 1. it's pronounced something
Mike Goodspeed wrote:
First, how do we pronounce it? "There's a fsssk meeting tonight at
6:30." "We're having a fk InstallFest this weekend!". Acronyms are
supposed to be catchy and easy to remember. Most people won't be able
to pronounce it. It's no SMaCS, TWiCS, CRU, or even BSU, CGA
1. it's pronounced something like F.S.-check, as in, "there's an F S check
meeting tonight, and man it has a cool name". as for lacking vowels, a lot
of abbreviations and organizations do fine without: BBB, PBK, PKP, and even
student senate with the dreaded SS.
2. FSCK is a great name and i was
Peter Snoblin wrote:
Mike Goodspeed wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 9:46 pm):
While FSCK obviously means something to us who understand Linux, and
it makes a great joke and probably an even better t-shirt, I think
the name is a HORRIBLE idea for our group.
I'm going to have to chime in with a se
Mike Goodspeed wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 9:46 pm):
> While FSCK obviously means something to us who understand Linux, and
> it makes a great joke and probably an even better t-shirt, I think
> the name is a HORRIBLE idea for our group.
I'm going to have to chime in with a second to that.
Donald J Bindner wrote:
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:38:40PM -0500, Ross Day wrote:
Supporters Of Freedom-Advocating Software (SOFAS)
Free Software Club in Kirksville (FSCK <-- now that's beautiful)
FSCK really is beautiful. I will personally add a second to
that.
Don
I think my new nickname shou
I like the KAFS name and as much as we deal with free software, the
group also deals with commercial software at times. Why restrict the
group by the name. Look at the members. Most are into alternative
systems most of which are not Microsoft systems. Most use freely
available downloaded operat
> FSCK is a colossally good idea.
In fact, it's such a colossally good idea that Ross should get a free
T-shirt for suggesting it, even if it's not the winner.
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FSCK is a colossally good idea.
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I haven't posted in quite a while, but this looked interesting. I agree that it
might also be a good time to address the "Linux" part of the name since you have
to change it any way. I go to Iowa State now and the group here has decided to
be called AmesFUG, with FUG standing for Free Unix Group.
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:38:40PM -0500, Ross Day wrote:
> Supporters Of Freedom-Advocating Software (SOFAS)
>
> Free Software Club in Kirksville (FSCK <-- now that's beautiful)
FSCK really is beautiful. I will personally add a second to
that.
Don
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Supporters Of Freedom-Advocating Software (SOFAS)
Free Software Club in Kirksville (FSCK <-- now that's beautiful)
This would go great on a T-shirt...as long as the new name is an acronym...
s/TSLUG//gi
And here is an ascii smiley face...for no reason.
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Hi, I'm not a voting member, but I think it would be a great idea to move
toward a name that mentions Free Software. I like KAFS because it suggests
caffein, which I've always associated with installing Linux.
Scott Thatcher
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:28:38PM -0500, Mike Goodspeed wrote:
> I'm n
If you would like to earn money to buy computer equipment, I
could use someone to mow my lawn. You don't even have to push.
Don
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I'm not necessarily making a suggestion (yet), but since we are changing
the name, is there signifigant opposition to getting rid of the Linux
name? Stallman wouldn't hate us anymore.
I mean, *LUG just sounds slow lazy and fat. All jokes aside, that's not
an image I'd like to be associated wi
Donald J Bindner wrote:
> Nominations and seconds will be accepted on the mailing list from
> now until Monday afternoon at 5pm (September 6). On Monday
> evening, I will draft a ballot of eligible entries and post it to
> the list.
One question to ask about the new name is, do we want to retain
Because there are a couple changes to make regarding *SLUG there is a
ballot coming up. You guys will have the chance to decide upon the new
name for TSLUG and we are making the election of the new president
easier that way too...
** some more feedback for the new TSLUG name would be cool.
** s
I nominate KLUG.
Raul
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Ok, I got the paperwork from Alex (who was chosen as a new
president at our meeting this week). Our agreement with Truman
does indeed say "The Organization will not use the University
name, ..."
We discussed this for some length at the meeting last night and
decided that the few members there wou
Jason Miller wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> What will TSLUG's new "official" name be, now that the University
> says no student organization can begin it's name with "Truman
> State..."?
>
This was brought up at yesterday's meeting, and while we bandied about
such names as !TSLUG and similar jokes, t
Heh, how about TSLUG and it just not be an acronym? ;-)
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:31:29PM -0500, Jason Miller wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> What will TSLUG's new "official" name be, now that the University says
> no student organization can begin it's name with "Truman State..."?
>
> =
Hey everyone,
What will TSLUG's new "official" name be, now that the University says
no student organization can begin it's name with "Truman State..."?
Jason E. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Truman State Universi
Actually, Debian sarge is probably a good choice as well. The
base packages are frozen and they are working on a new stable
release (of sarge) for the sometime this fall so the fact that
you are running "testing" shouldn't mean instability.
As with gentoo, I have a local mirror that you can use,
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