31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
2:07 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:49:38AM -0500, Martin, Eric J. wrote:
what's xbiff?
"biff": name of the pet dog of one of the original (1970-190's) coders. Dog used to bark whenever the mailman came. Program created to announce when you got email was named after that "biff". Xwindows version of same functionality became "xbiff". replacement? hmm - my email clients seem to let me know without extra features. -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.