7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
7:24 p.m.
mcoxe@opsware.com (Michael Coxe) writes:
Subject: Common Questions about Piano Tuning
from man page for tunefs(8)
BUGS
You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish.
But can you tune a toaster?
No doubt Mr Freeze was innocently entrapped into posting his advertisement to the mailing list by the natural association of ideas: both pianos and toasters have wires.
On the other hand, googling will reveal that another common association of "piano wire" is its use for garotting the undesirable, such as spammers.
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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk