From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen jheiskan@welho.com
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 01:29, Anthere wrote:
Julie de Lespinasse She was a passionate... But she should be "de Lespinasse". That is a bit of a problem.
Please be advised that there is a more significant consideration here than the necessary addition of "de".
In the Finnish language there is a real possibility that "Lespinasse" would be parsed: "lisping alcoholic pedophile".
And "Nasse"? Well Nasse was a clown fairly popular on Finnish TV (portrayed by a genius actor, Vesa-Matti Loiri) whose shctick was to quiz children on their habits on the potty to a ludicrously explicit degree, while taking mock surreptious swigs out of
his >bottle.
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (aka Cimon Avaro)
LOL.
These two are redhibitory defects ;-)
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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!
Once DNS changes go through it should be available as geoffrin.wikimedia.org. Jason, could you update wikipedia.org to also include an alias in that domain? (Also, would it be possible to add mormo.org as a backup MX record for wikipedia.org? Right now if pliny goes down mailing list messages will only go to the backup server if they're sent using wikiMedia.org addresses.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:59:25PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
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!
Once DNS changes go through it should be available as geoffrin.wikimedia.org. Jason, could you update wikipedia.org to also include an alias in that domain? (Also, would it be possible to add mormo.org as a backup MX record for wikipedia.org? Right now if pliny goes down mailing list messages will only go to the backup server if they're sent using wikiMedia.org addresses.)
Perhaps it could be possible to include a bit of data in the TXT DNS record for the various people who have trouble remembering if the machine is a database server or a web server?
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 :-)
Anthère
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 20:53:23 -0600, Nick Reinking wrote:
Perhaps it could be possible to include a bit of data in the TXT DNS record for the various people who have trouble remembering if the machine is a database server or a web server?
Hello,
Security wise, I don't think that's a good idea :)
cheers,
On Dec 7, 2003, at 19:35, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 20:53:23 -0600, Nick Reinking wrote:
Perhaps it could be possible to include a bit of data in the TXT DNS record for the various people who have trouble remembering if the machine is a database server or a web server?
Hello,
Security wise, I don't think that's a good idea :)
Really? I was going to add the root password too, just so we don't forget it. ;)
Honestly we'd just forget to keep it up to date. We don't even remember to keep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Servers up to date...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber schrieb:
Honestly we'd just forget to keep it up to date. We don't even remember to keep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Servers up to date...
BTW: Someone should update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technical_FAQ with the hardware specifications of the new server and the new setup of the boxes (e.g. "Are there any databases left on pliny?").
Alwin Meschede
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