Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/24/13:20:33
We are getting very off-topic here, but I can't resist the urge to
educate you people of Swedish...
Damian Yerrick (web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com) wrote:
: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote in message
: > DOS and WINDOWS end with a similar sound: doze.
: Not in America, where DOS rhymes with BOSS.
In Swedish we only have the sound of s (at least that's what I think),
which make it hard for us to learn French where "ils ont" and "ils
sont" should sound differently. It means "they have" and "they are"
which is quite a big difference.
: > So DOZE is DOS (any variant) and WINDOZE is
: > WINDOWS (any variant)
: Including X-Windows environments such as
: GNOME and KDE?
No, Unix and Linux is case-sensitive so "X-Windows" don't match
"*DOZE"...
: > and *DOZE is all variants thereof.
: So Linux is a *DOZE?
Nope. Linux is the kernel and X-Windows is the framework for the GUI.
Furthermore, in contrast to *DOZE it doesn't doze.
: > Additionaly WINDOZE is really behaving like it's
: > dozing most of the time.
: That's because it is; install the RC5DES client to make
: it use its idle cycles for a good cause.
: http://www.distributed.net/
No, it obviously doing something like repainting the screen or writing
to disk or just plainly hung, so I have to wait for it. That make me
want to go and doze.
U2, Boy,
MartinS
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