Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] Bootable Mac backup
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:24:03 -0400
References: <p0623090dc6df6a35f6cb@[10.0.1.199]> <C6DF420D.5537D%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
2009-09-23-03:10:05 Mark Rabiner:
> I hate that word "boot".
> 
> I'd like it to have nothing to do with my computer.

That's... curious, but okay: how about "bootstrap"? As in
pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps, a lovely impossible
chicken-and-recursive-egg sort of concept.

Because that's what boot in this context is short for, really.
In reply to: Message from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Bootable Mac backup)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Bootable Mac backup)