Brion Vibber a écrit:
Alright, it's been a few days and I've decided to go ahead and name the machine 'geoffrin' for Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, an 18th century Parisian hostess important in the literary scene of the Encyclopedists, so I could stop calling it "the new machine" all the time.
'geoffrin' has advantages over other suggested names in that no one has to argue over whether 'de' has to be included and it can't be interpreted by Finns as referring to a lisping drunken pedophile. ;) Mme Geoffrin is said to have "acted as mother and mentor to her guests", and the main database server is indeed the protecting mother to our data!
Did I already mention that I loved you Brion ?
Thanks a lot :-)
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