[CentOS] firefox: annoyance

Fri Sep 26 01:54:57 UTC 2014
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Thu, September 25, 2014 7:32 pm, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 18:16 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>>
>> On 09/25/2014 05:49 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> >
>> > Maybe we can get it into extras? I mentioned something from his repo
>> to my
>> > manager, who understandably balked at a Russian server (this is a US
>> gov't
>> > agency (non-DoD) that we work at....
>
>> li.nux.ro, that's Romania not Russia.
>
> USA people are not too familiar with Europe which extends from the
> Arctic circle (Svalbard, 81º North, Norwegian) to the Mediterranean, and
> from the French coast to the Ural mountains in Russia. The 28 countries
> of the EU have a population exceeding 800 million (the USA's is about
> 307m). That leaves about 22 European countries not (yet) in the EU.
>

My take would be he just didn't focus on the domain name. Sysadmins
usually decipher those into geographical location easily. I admire Europe:
everybody speaks multiple languages. BTW one of our professors brought
this joke when he came back from Europe. If I wasn't sure the joke has
long-long beard I would think he made it up himself...: Person who speaks
2 languages: bilingual, 3 languages: trilingual; 1 language: American ;-)

Valeri

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