[nycbug-talk] two quick things
Matthew Story
matt at tablethotels.com
Thu Jan 5 11:47:20 EST 2012
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.
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> Also, way off-topic. . .
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> In France the Academie Francais was created a few centuries back to unify and preserve the French language.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> Can you imagine troubleshooting an ADSL problem not knowing they meant a DMZ??
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> g
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> (thanks Massimo. And good luck)
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