Re: OT: gas plant (was Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs))
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Bzzzz wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:46:31 +0200
> > lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> > All interesting things you said, plus a bunch of other readings
> > confort me in my first impression: Linux was becoming too much
> > secured for the taste of agencies (and which better candidate
> > than a gas plant
>
> for those unfamiliar with the french figurative use of the term gas
> refinery ("usine à gaz"):
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine#Similar_expressions_worldwide
>
> > that hammers its looong claws down to… dbus, which assume most of
> > the machine exchanges, and a convenient "project" that big that it
> > inevitably will produce nice and juicy security bugs for the next
> > decades to come).
>
> -wes
LOL, and within ten, I'll bet the phrase "Poettering Masterpiece" will
be added to that list, and its usage will be worldwide.
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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