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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: s240779]
#16977614 - 10/06/12 12:53 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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240779 said: Seems the administration prefers "Smilies" as all instances have been changed to "Smilies." 
Not in the Display/ Account Preferences panel. It still says graemlins.
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: HB]
#16977624 - 10/06/12 12:56 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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HB said:
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240779 said: Seems the administration prefers "Smilies" as all instances have been changed to "Smilies." 
Not in the Display/ Account Preferences panel. It still says graemlins.
What's your point?
Anybody want to alert the administration to change "garmelin" to "smiley" in Account Preferences?
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: s240779]
#16977630 - 10/06/12 12:56 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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240779 said:
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HB said:
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240779 said: Seems the administration prefers "Smilies" as all instances have been changed to "Smilies." 
Not in the Display/ Account Preferences panel. It still says graemlins.
What's your point?
Anybody want to alert the administration to change "garmelin" to "smiley" in Account Preferences?
No.
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: s240779]
#16977640 - 10/06/12 12:58 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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240779 said:
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HB said:
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240779 said: Seems the administration prefers "Smilies" as all instances have been changed to "Smilies." 
Not in the Display/ Account Preferences panel. It still says graemlins.
What's your point?
Anybody want to alert the administration to change "garmelin" to "smiley" in Account Preferences?
My point is that you said that "all" instances have been changed to smilies. I was correcting you.
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: HB]
#16978608 - 10/06/12 03:51 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: Ima Trooper]
#16978614 - 10/06/12 03:52 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ima Trooper said: WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT

lol!
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: HB]
#16978658 - 10/06/12 04:03 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I always figured that it was sort of a computer tradition to subsitute "e" in an existing word with "ae" to make it more old-fashioned sounding and set it apart from the original word as a specialized term. Demon becomes daemon, gremlin becomes graemlin, and possibly some other examples exist.
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: psi]
#16978669 - 10/06/12 04:05 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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psi said: I always figured that it was sort of a computer tradition to subsitute "e" in an existing word with "ae" to make it more old-fashioned sounding and set it apart from the original word as a specialized term. Demon becomes daemon, gremlin becomes graemlin, and possibly some other examples exist.
I used to see "daemon" when loading Doom 2 on my old PC. I always assumed it was some sort of "super-demon" script ...
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: HB]
#16978694 - 10/06/12 04:10 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah I think one of the Doom games was where I saw it first too. There's also Daemon tools which is a CD drive emulation program.
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In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon (/ˈdeɪmən/ or /ˈdiːmən/) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: psi]
#16978705 - 10/06/12 04:14 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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psi said: Yeah I think one of the Doom games was where I saw it first too. There's also Daemon tools which is a CD drive emulation program.
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In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon (/ˈdeɪmən/ or /ˈdiːmən/) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.
Interesting! Thanks for the info. I never knew exactly what "daemon" meant or did until now ...
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: HB]
#16978716 - 10/06/12 04:16 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah I had to look it up just now, I had read what it meant before but I forgot.
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Re: THE OFFICIAL "GRAEMLINS" OR "SMILEYS" POLL [Re: psi]
#16980284 - 10/06/12 08:27 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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That is pretty cool. I always used to think it was just an alternative spelling of "demon", but meant the same thing.
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