Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Rob Morley Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:57:02 +0100 Lines: 11 Message-ID: <20160626145702.22ccb375@Mars> References: <1254811335.488475740.192549.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1254811335.488475740.192549.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1254811335.488475740.192549.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1254811335.488475740.192549.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1254811335.488475740.192549.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1254811335.488475740.192549.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net MyirO7xAW439/Y7DRsPrhggAjPvyZSiYOldyArE/S9DwyE/JA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:9zlexuLz5HXGCjARlr8s359fyLQ= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: -%!sEvEmu1^sE_cg/C*FkO+yp>Mb1!P3;"2[i&?+~C~&3Ij\EW#xv{=A_9L5TI^=Q-h[id[ 12tqNfcr'3h0m_N|*_#N>>#Z6-2d1't90*G}0c,)tOl0q4e_nQx}(;"g]0xJgYHH]cD;k7ZxCoI%K[ H2J3@n:NH)h+HQQv-jP3EYU|.*HZ6q6nwd5N7uOFIr+@ Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:165987 On 26 Jun 2016 13:10:45 GMT jmfbahciv wrote: > I worked on monitor development; patching while running was a common > practice. We even had misnomer for the crash--FFF (fat finger > fuckup). > A misnomer is a name wrongly applied to something. You'll be wanting a word that means something more like "nickname", there's a good one but I can't think of it ATM.