cburley - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Emulator? (Score 1) 151

by cburley on Friday October 14, 2011 @03:30PM (#37717328) Attached to: Gate One 0.9 Released, Brings SSH To the Web

Because it is emulating a terminal, which back in the stone age was an actual piece of physical hardware.

Sometimes they were magical interactive typewriters which is where the abbreviation 'TTY' comes from.

Pretty sure 'TTY' comes from "Teletype".

Comment The Chinese Word for "Disease"... (Score 1) 366

by cburley on Thursday March 03, 2011 @06:51PM (#35374472) Attached to: Bing Becomes No.2 Search Engine at 4.37%

...is "Bing"! (Discovered in a fortune cookie that came with sushi bought in a cafeteria in a building housing a Microsoft R&D team. When I saw it, I found a Chinese coworker and asked her what was the Chinese word for "disease", and she cheerfully responded "Bing!" -- at which point other coworkers in earshot cracked up and she said something like "Wow, I never thought of that!". This was only a few months after the Bing launch....)

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