He may have been a lame user but the ORIGINAL BIFF was a dog. BIFF was taught to bark when the mail man came so his owners would know. One the of the developers of sendmail (I think it was sendmail - part of the Berkely email system anyway) - owned BIFF. Someone then put something in the csh to look at your email everytime a command finished executing and then print up "You have new mail" if you had new mail. It was called biffing - from BIFF the dog who barked at the mailman. There was a command in BSD 4.0 called biff - biff -y meant tell me when email arrived.
I really have to try to forget some of this suff:-)
andrew
> I guess loyalty has gone the same way as traditional family values and faith in God.
Well you're right about the loyalty thing, the financial services people have a real moral issue : think Enron, WorldComm. Morals are not their strong point. As for faith in God, it's 2004, backward medieval mythology has no place in the modern world. I don't think belief in a deity that arbitarily kills 150,000 people with a tsunami somehow makes the world a "better" place.
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I did that once. Mistake. Don't do the grand gestures until you have another job to go to. Of course if you don't like eating......
OK my excuse is lack of coffee :-)
I'll go and beat myself over the head with my original hard copy of the Western Digital V7 manual.....
He may have been a lame user but the ORIGINAL BIFF was a dog. BIFF was taught to bark when the mail man came so his owners would know. One the of the developers of sendmail (I think it was sendmail - part of the Berkely email system anyway) - owned BIFF. Someone then put something in the csh to look at your email everytime a command finished executing and then print up "You have new mail" if you had new mail. It was called biffing - from BIFF the dog who barked at the mailman. There was a command in BSD 4.0 called biff - biff -y meant tell me when email arrived. I really have to try to forget some of this suff :-)
andrew
They didn't put in Kremvax - the greatest net hoax ever !!! :-)
> I guess loyalty has gone the same way as traditional family values and faith in God. Well you're right about the loyalty thing, the financial services people have a real moral issue : think Enron, WorldComm. Morals are not their strong point. As for faith in God, it's 2004, backward medieval mythology has no place in the modern world. I don't think belief in a deity that arbitarily kills 150,000 people with a tsunami somehow makes the world a "better" place.