Messages in this thread | | | From | "Clayton Weaver" <> | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:12:29 -0500 | Subject | Re: power/disk.c: small fixups |
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(re: "it's" and similar non-code documentation issues, plus a tangent from a completely different topic)
Among the best references ever on "The King's English" (traditional phrase informally meaning "correct English usage"):
_The Elements of Style_, Strunk and White:
<http://www.bartleby.com/141/>
The above work is not an encyclopedic reference on English usage (not complete), but nonetheless:
"The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe."
So, if "it's" is not a possessive, then it's a contraction, where the ' represents one or more omitted letters. (No comment on the "it has" variant, which I cannot remember ever seeing in practice but can think of no reason for ruling out as definitively incorrect usage.)
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Touching on a tangent from an earlier topic this week, what about a small, very sensitive emi collector that plugs into a ps/2 mouse port, serial port or usb port on a headless, keyboardless, interactive-user-less server? Something sending environmentally random data at a rate designed to accumulate abundant real entropy without hosing server performance on headless boxes?
(One wants "background noise of the universe" for a usable input source, at a data rate high enough to get rid of that nagging anxiety about whether one always has enough entropy for ipsec, etc, when no one is using the keyboard or mouse, there may or may not be any disks, network data flows tend to stay at fairly consistent rates due to rate-limiting, etc.)
Regards,
Clayton Weaver <mailto: cgweav@email.com> -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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