From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>,
rusty@linux.co.intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mochel@osdl.org, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, daniel@rimspace.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
Date: 15 Feb 2003 21:03:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045342995.5130.8.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302150913.h1F9Du9q000369@darkstar.example.net>
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:13, John Bradford wrote:
> Magnetic media -> disk
> Optical media -> disc
> Combination media, (magneto-optical) -> disk
It varies by place. Optincal media is "disc" primarily because the
trademarks forced the one spelling on the funny foreigners. As everyone
knows the proper spelling is "disg" for all three.
Its not a useful argument to have.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-15 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 3:16 Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 4:27 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-02-13 7:32 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 11:55 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 15:34 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 16:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-02-13 15:51 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 19:07 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 18:31 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-02-13 21:12 ` Scott Murray
2003-02-13 22:58 ` Matt Porter
2003-02-13 22:05 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 0:47 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 15:32 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 19:02 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 20:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 21:12 ` Joel Becker
2003-02-14 13:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-14 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-13 16:04 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 18:20 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 18:21 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 23:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 21:35 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14 23:17 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-15 1:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-15 8:27 ` Cort Dougan
2003-02-15 9:13 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 21:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-02-15 20:37 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 12:42 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-02-15 17:26 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-19 5:24 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-20 21:19 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-20 22:36 ` Alan Cox
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