[MOBY-l] My fortune for the day

[Lincoln Stein]

Bruce, thanks for the jargon pointer.  I never knew that.  I'm particularly 
intrigued about the old-style moby factor.  By that definition, my current 
desktop machine has 116 micro-mobies.

Lincoln

On Friday 23 July 2004 05:52 am, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> For those of you who might not know:
>
> http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/moby.html
>
>  A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to
> show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent
> hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the
> Mac going?"
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 06:16:51PM -0400, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > My /usr/bin/fortune program popped up the following gem this evening:
> >
> > 	Oh Lord, won't you buy me a 4BSD?
> > 	My friends all got sources, so why can't I see?
> > 	Come all you moby hackers, come sing it out with me:
> > 	To hell with the lawyers from AT&T!
> >
> > Amazing.
> >
> > Lincoln
> >
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