* [9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth?
@ 2012-12-11 14:10 Anthony Martin
2012-12-11 14:18 ` erik quanstrom
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From: Anthony Martin @ 2012-12-11 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
What's the story behind the curious reference
to this phrase in the code for timesync(8)?
Who wrote this code? presotto?
It's rather funny.
Anthony
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* Re: [9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth?
2012-12-11 14:10 [9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth? Anthony Martin
@ 2012-12-11 14:18 ` erik quanstrom
2012-12-11 15:34 ` Rob Pike
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-12-11 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Tue Dec 11 09:10:53 EST 2012, ality@pbrane.org wrote:
> What's the story behind the curious reference
> to this phrase in the code for timesync(8)?
it's a reference to
an r.e.m. song "what's the frequency, kenneth" (monster, 1994)
which is a reference to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#.22Kenneth.2C_what_is_the_frequency.3F.22
- erik
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* Re: [9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth?
2012-12-11 14:18 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2012-12-11 15:34 ` Rob Pike
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From: Rob Pike @ 2012-12-11 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
It likely has nothing to do with the REM song.
-rob
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:18 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Tue Dec 11 09:10:53 EST 2012, ality@pbrane.org wrote:
>> What's the story behind the curious reference
>> to this phrase in the code for timesync(8)?
>
> it's a reference to
> an r.e.m. song "what's the frequency, kenneth" (monster, 1994)
> which is a reference to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#.22Kenneth.2C_what_is_the_frequency.3F.22
>
> - erik
>
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