<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Slides are viewable online here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AfDUqFNz2o4eZGhoeDlnY3pfMTY2ZDJxY3B0Zmg">https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AfDUqFNz2o4eZGhoeDlnY3pfMTY2ZDJxY3B0Zmg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please submit any bugs you find in the talk to me, and I'll happily buy you a round at the next meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for having me,</div><div>-matt</div><br><div><div>On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:46 AM, George Rosamond wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Excellent meeting last night. We should have the slides up on the web site today at some point.<br><br>Also, way off-topic. . .<br><br>In France the Academie Francais was created a few centuries back to unify and preserve the French language.<br><br>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."<br><br>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.<br><br>Can you imagine troubleshooting an ADSL problem not knowing they meant a DMZ??<br><br>g<br><br>(thanks Massimo. And good luck)<br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br>http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>