Comments on: Lazy Reading for 2014/04/20

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:01:08 +0000

Related: The ‘option’ key on the Apple keyboard has been called a couple different things – open-apple (dating back to pre-Mac days), puppy paw, splat key.

By: Harald Arnesen

Harald Arnesen — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:47:24 +0000

When I started in the IT business in the mid-80s, the Norsk Data family of minicomputers were market leaders in Norway. The command interpreter prompt was usually ‘@’, and we used to call it “grisehale” (“pig’s tail”).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:02:42 +0000

I think it’s worth mentioning with regard to the top article that GNU top and its arguments aren’t the same as BSD top, but still good reading for learning things you might not have used in those ways.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:05:30 +0000

@Charles Rapenne: At least in Germany, the symbol is indeed widely referred to as “Klammeraffe”, i. e., this animal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_monkey

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:16:09 +0000

I learned something, arobase is a mass unit.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arobase

étonnant non ?

By: Charles Rapenne

Charles Rapenne — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:51:12 +0000

I don’t really understand the map about the ‘@’ symbol. Does it mean that in some country, they used the same word as for an elephant or a monkey ?

In France, it has its own name, we call it “arobase”.
The word isn’t a mix of “aro” and “base” because “aro” doesn’t mean anything alone, and base is like base in english :)