From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:01:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56713F37-52CC-44E4-9AF1-DC87F18736D8@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3ea5a951dd8ffb58fa4d14c1ec8b640@coraid.com>
On May 3, 2008, at 6:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> factotum comes from the Charles Bukowski's book?
>
> i thought the reference was older
>
> minooka; dict
> */factotum/
> 1 Fac*to"tum
> *1
> Fac*to"tum (făk*tō"tŭm), n.; pl. Factotums (- tŭmz). [L., do
> everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See /Fact/,
> and /Total/.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
> B. Jonson.
>
> - erik
>
And that definition relates to the factotum system how? We define it
as so:
Fac*to"tum (făk*tō"tŭm), n.; pl. Factotums (- tŭmz). [L., do
everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See /Fact/,
and /Total/.] The centralization of anything that has to do
with authentication.
Given the dictionary definition, Plan 9 is a factotum.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-03 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 18:57 Rodolfo kix Garcia
2008-05-03 22:54 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-03 23:01 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-05-04 1:37 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-04 1:45 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04 1:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-04 5:39 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-06 9:51 ` roger peppe
2008-05-06 13:57 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-06 14:08 ` erik quanstrom
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