* [9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth? @ 2012-12-11 14:10 Anthony Martin 2012-12-11 14:18 ` erik quanstrom 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] what is the frequency, kenneth? 2012-12-11 14:18 ` erik quanstrom @ 2012-12-11 15:34 ` Rob Pike 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread 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 > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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