* [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
@ 2003-01-17 9:39 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson
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From: Andrew Simmons @ 2003-01-17 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>With this trend one can expect that the future versions of all Plan9
>components would be named after little known towns with funny
>names. I say we start in PA. Intercourse, Climax and Blueballs come
>to mind. How about one named after Tightwad, MO -- this could
>be some sort of memory checker, or Bucksnort, TN -- perhaps
>the new name fo olefs?
A good idea in principle, but isn't it needlessly restrictive to consider
only names of towns in the USA? Surely the village of Wank in Germany
deserves to have a software tool named after it?
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-17 9:39 [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server Andrew Simmons
@ 2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson
2003-01-17 16:11 ` Conor Williams
2003-01-17 19:14 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
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From: Jack Johnson @ 2003-01-17 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Andrew Simmons wrote:
> A good idea in principle, but isn't it needlessly restrictive to consider
> only names of towns in the USA? Surely the village of Wank in Germany
> deserves to have a software tool named after it?
Surely it would need the option to wank recursively.
-Jack
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson
@ 2003-01-17 16:11 ` Conor Williams
2003-01-17 19:14 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
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From: Conor Williams @ 2003-01-17 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
already is software called swank - a java tk thing
> Version 0.6 of SWANK, a GUI toolkit written in Java and similar to Tk, is
> now available.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Johnson" <fragment@nas.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
> Andrew Simmons wrote:
> > A good idea in principle, but isn't it needlessly restrictive to
consider
> > only names of towns in the USA? Surely the village of Wank in Germany
> > deserves to have a software tool named after it?
>
> Surely it would need the option to wank recursively.
>
> -Jack
>
>
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson
2003-01-17 16:11 ` Conor Williams
@ 2003-01-17 19:14 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2003-01-24 7:24 ` Tomas
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From: Chris Hollis-Locke @ 2003-01-17 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Jack Johnson wrote:
> Surely it would need the option to wank recursively.
I think a more Plan9 approach would be for it to mount itself.
Chris.
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-17 19:14 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
@ 2003-01-24 7:24 ` Tomas
2003-01-24 16:47 ` Russ Cox
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From: Tomas @ 2003-01-24 7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
As long as we're discussing names, I though I'd ask about
something I just realized this week. I was thinking about naming
applications and thought that a POP server under Plan9 could be
named pop9, but then I realized popIX, with it's similarity in
both spelling and pronounciation to POSIX, would be mildly
amusing.
And then it hit me; Plan9 = PlanIX (yes, I'm slow). I remembered
reading about how the name UNIX was a play with words with it's
predecessor Multics, so naturally the question pops into my mind:
is this the case with Plan9 as well? Was the number 9 at the end
of the name a factor in deciding the name, just as Presotto wrote
that having the letters f and s in it was a factor when choosing
fossil?
/Tomas
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-24 7:24 ` Tomas
@ 2003-01-24 16:47 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-24 20:38 ` Tomas
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From: Russ Cox @ 2003-01-24 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22plan+9+from+outer+space%22
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-24 16:47 ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-01-24 20:38 ` Tomas
2003-01-24 20:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
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From: Tomas @ 2003-01-24 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 at 11:47am, Russ Cox wrote:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22plan+9+from+outer+space%22
Yes, I do know of the movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Besides
being a B-film classic, it's also mentioned on some Plan9-related
webpages, and I specifically remember one saying that the name
Plan9 was chosen in part as a tribute to the movie, and in part
to make life for the marketing department a bit harder. I was
just wondering if the 9 at the end of the name also was a part of
the decision, for the reasons I outlined in my previous mail.
Oh well, it's no big deal, just another example of my brain
working overtime on unimportant things.
/Tomas
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
2003-01-24 20:38 ` Tomas
@ 2003-01-24 20:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
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From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2003-01-24 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
"what's really gonna bake your noodle later on, is that 'ed', the editor,
was named after Ed Wood" ;)
on an unrelated note: the grace period between the first post to 9fans with a
new (and clean) email address and the arrival of the first spam message is
about 3 days...
hail usenet :)
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Tomas wrote:
> Oh well, it's no big deal, just another example of my brain
> working overtime on unimportant things.
>
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* Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
@ 2003-01-18 6:04 Andrew Simmons
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From: Andrew Simmons @ 2003-01-18 6:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>I think a more Plan9 approach would be for it to mount itself.
Good point. But what would be the appropriate place name for an application
that preferred to bind itself?
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* [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
@ 2003-01-15 8:12 Skip Tavakkolian
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From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2003-01-15 8:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
It is probably named after Fossil, OR.
Fossil, OR (city, FIPS 26650)
Location: 44.99841 N, 120.21319 W
Population (1990): 399 (224 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Source: U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
With this trend one can expect that the future versions of all Plan9
components would be named after little known towns with funny
names. I say we start in PA. Intercourse, Climax and Blueballs come
to mind. How about one named after Tightwad, MO -- this could
be some sort of memory checker, or Bucksnort, TN -- perhaps
the new name fo olefs?
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