On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:56, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:04, Mark Haney wrote: > > > Simply jumping in and frobbing the knobs is generally not good > > > practice. In most cases it will adversely affect your systems > > > performance instead of improving it. > > > > > Can you say 'frobbing the knobs' in a public forum? > > > > I knew I had seen a definition of this somewhere. Enjoy! > > > frobbing > verb. Randomly adjusting the settings of an object, such as the dials on > a piece of equipment or the options in a software program, in an effort > to learn how the object works. > > Example Citation: > "Why is babbling so important? The infant is like a person who has been > given a complicated piece of audio equipment bristling with unlabeled > knobs and switches but missing the instruction manual. In such > situations people resort to what hackers call frobbingâfiddling > aimlessly with the controls to see what happens." > âSteven Pinker, The Language Instinct Well don't that beat all? I had no clue it was a real word. Well I certainly did learn something today. And also something I can teach my kids to say and not get in trouble at school with! :) > > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > "I think trash is the most important manifestation of culture we have in my > lifetime." > - Johnny Legend -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 12:03:50 up 4:25, 1 user, load average: 7.36, 7.70, 7.93
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