Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:19:57 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/30] C/R OpenVZ/Virtuozzo style |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >>> We're not merging OpenVZ code _either_. >> This is to give example of other prefixes: cpt_ and rst_ >> Are they fine?
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5513.txt
> Do you secretly work for IBM? > > IBM has a well-known disdain for vowels, and basically refuses to use them > for mnemonics (they were called on this, and did "eieio" as an instruction > just to try to make up for it). > > But I'm from Finland. In Finnish, about 75% of all letters are vowels. I > find this dis-emvoweling to be stupid and impractical. Without vowels, you > can't tell Finnish words apart (admittedly, _with_ vowels, you generally > cannot pronounce them, so to a non-Finn it doesn't much matter). > > My point is, let's go for a happy medium - LEAVE THE F*CKING VOWELS IN > PLACE ALREADY. > > So let's call it "checkpoint" and "restore". Ok?
restart ?
-- ~Randy
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