From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jan 22 17:34:43 2008 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de From: Ronald Hall Organization: DarkForce! To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Canonical Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:30:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20080114113821.ulmab9pow0w8k0gs@pop.freeola.net> <478B637C.1174.5E08B1@anodyne.cyberus.ca> In-Reply-To: <478B637C.1174.5E08B1@anodyne.cyberus.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801161630.47162.darklord@suddenlink.net> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: darklord@suddenlink.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Status: X-Status: X-Keywords: On Monday 14 January 2008 01:28 pm, Roger Burrows wrote: > A good place to start is "The New Hacker's Dictionary" by Eric Raymond, > which is an outgrwoth from the Jargon File. It devotes about a page to > "canonical", well worth reading :-). As is the book as a whole, although > probably not in one session, straight through from abbrev to zorkmid (and > beyond). > > Roger Would that be Eric Raymond of Linux fame? If so, I got to meet and chat with him in person - on the 2001 Linux Lunacy cruise. Even went parasailing with him and his wife (she's a lawyer)... Met lots of other notable 'Nix personalities as well. :) -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Welcome To DarkForce! www.darkforce.org "The Fuji Lives!"_/ _/ An Atari SW/HW based BBS-Telnet:darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/