[nycbug-talk] two quick things

[Matthew Story]

Slides are viewable online here:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AfDUqFNz2o4eZGhoeDlnY3pfMTY2ZDJxY3B0Zmg

Please submit any bugs you find in the talk to me, and I'll happily buy you a round at the next meeting.

thanks for having me,
-matt

On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:46 AM, George Rosamond wrote:

> Excellent meeting last night.  We should have the slides up on the web site today at some point.
> 
> Also, way off-topic. . .
> 
> In France the Academie Francais was created a few centuries back to unify and preserve the French language.
> 
> So cognates or English are not used in technology.  There are specific terms in French for everything from to connect (as in a cable) as "brancher."  A network is "le cible."
> 
> But there's one term I just learned which is an insane creation. . . for a network's DMZ, it's ADSL (or ADS-L) in French.
> 
> Can you imagine troubleshooting an ADSL problem not knowing they meant a DMZ??
> 
> g
> 
> (thanks Massimo.  And good luck)
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