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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM!sunicnc.France.Sun.COM!smckinty From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC Grenoble) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Date: 14 Aug 1995 12:29:31 GMT Organization: SunConnect Lines: 36 Sender: smckinty@hardy (Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC Grenoble) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <40nfjb$f43@centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <4099s8$6ep@empire.texas.net> <40atpg$psj@nova.netapp.com> <40c5ul$jn8@light.twinsun.com> <40g7s4$eut@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:50898 comp.unix.solaris:43109 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:539 In article <40g7s4$eut@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, smarks@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM (Stuart Marks) writes: > originally picked up by AT&T didn't have it. In any case, there is no > indication that the "humorless person" to which you refer -- if such a person > exists -- worked at Sun. The last time I saw this discussed the reason for the removal of such jokes was the growing international market. The "tune a fish" pun really only works for a person with a good knowledge of English, if that manpage were given to a translator to be turned into, say, Greater Cthulian, they might either miss the joke completely, or perhaps find that it translated into something offensive. A pity, I agree, but unless we have a "Joke I18N" department I think we're stuck with it. > > Ah, the wheel of reinvention keeps turning. :-) > A brief digression from the group title, but I liked some of the jokes in VMS files. The header files relating to system security were things like ciadef.h, kgbdef.h (and they even had some tortured acronym worked out to justify them). Of course, there are the classic in-code comments, like "I don't know what this does, but if I take it out this doesn't work". Finding that in some kernel source (I won't say whose) doesn't exactly give you a warm feeling... :-) Steve -- Steve McKinty | Sun Microsystems ICNC | 38240 Meylan, France | email: smckinty@france.sun.com |