Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Sam Liddicott <sam(dot)liddicott(at)ananova(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly
Date: 2002-07-13 02:46:49
Message-ID: 20020713124649.D14119@svana.org
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:25:44PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > Also we could embed some sound into the postmaster. On startup it
> > searches for audio output capability (/dev/dsp) and reports
> > "Postgres-Q-L database system ready" on successful startup.
>
> Could you imagine this in a place like Rackspace ... imagine several
> hundred computers all rebooting after some planned power upgrade, all
> chirping up as the PgSQL server auto-starts? :)

Surely they don't all have sound cards and speakers installed? Seriously
though, how it's pronounced doesn't seem very important to me. As long as
people know how to spell it, what's the problem?
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.

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