Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had looked it up and was attempting humor I should know better. But didn't know what the other one was. With two sets of Acronyms in the same sentence like that it was quite comical and hard to resist. One real obscure the other one only slightly obscure. The sentence would be near intelligible to all but very few people. But that's ok you engineers are like that. Once you learn an Acronym you assume the whole world has also learned it. And you string them together like pears in a necklace. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:08:38 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Anyone using Drobo > > 2010-09-14-16:00:26 Mark Rabiner: >> What's a NAS? > > Do you actually want to know, or are you just passive-aggressively > niggling at us in your self-appointed role as the Acronym Police? > > Because it wouldn't have been too hard to look up, if you actually > wanted to know. The second Google hit from the top, and the first one > which isn't about a musician, is: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage > > Network-Attached Storage. File storage space your computer reads and > writes at over your ethernet rather than over some traditional > hard-disk-pluggy interface. You know how computers can share file > space over a network? Well, a NAS box is a little appliance with a > computer inside which is meant just to share file space. Potentially > to multiple computers at the same time, and potentially from some > far-off corner of your house, if that's most convenient to you. > >>> From: leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> >>> What's a psu? >>> >>> Thanks! > > Power supply. (Power Supply Unit) > > You're welcome! > > (Leo said "thanks", and I think he actually wants to know.) > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information