On 29/11/06, 80686@svn.wikimedia.org 80686@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
Revision: 18007 Author: 80686 Date: 2006-11-29 14:25:31 -0800 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006)
With all due respect, what kind of ridiculous username is that? How are we supposed to link "80686" to a person in a quick manner? I see "brion", I can think "Brion Vibber, don't argue with his code", I see "tstarling", I know it's Tim.
"80686" might be a popular username, but we aren't dealing with a bunch of children dancing about behind some wonderful label. We're dealing with people who need to be a touch *more* accountable than the damn wikis this is powering.
In addition, using a number is confusing. It could get mistaken for a revision number or identifier of another form.
Rob Church
On 11/29/06, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
well, it's me, as I'm known since 15 years in all kind of computing fields, including Wikipedia, MediaWiki and the IRC channels.
Just out of curiosity: what made you decide to use a name equivalent (theoretically) to the *successor* of the Pentium, two years before the Pentium itself debuted?
Just out of curiosity: what made you decide to use a name equivalent (theoretically) to the *successor* of the Pentium, two years before the Pentium itself debuted?
We won't be able to get the right idea behind it, but I found the naming scheme interesting, was young and needed a "cool" name... so I used that one. Now all newer Pentiums are named 80686 - which is quite funny as in these days nobody thought of that.
But as nobody used this name except me I was keeping it... as nickname in chats, ICQ, domain name... whatever. I use it as a username anywhere but - if you have a look at my wiki contributions - I use my full name as a signature because I support the demand for "real" users.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 05:54:40PM -0500, Simetrical wrote:
On 11/29/06, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
well, it's me, as I'm known since 15 years in all kind of computing fields, including Wikipedia, MediaWiki and the IRC channels.
Just out of curiosity: what made you decide to use a name equivalent (theoretically) to the *successor* of the Pentium, two years before the Pentium itself debuted?
Clearly, he was ahead of his time.
Cheers, -- jra
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:29:18PM +0000, Rob Church wrote:
Author: 80686
With all due respect, what kind of ridiculous username is that?
It's Pentium-II, Rob.
Cheers, -- jra
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