[Dclug] FIOS

[Mackenzie Morgan]

Gaelic is the language spoken in Ireland.  I believe Welsh is also a
Gaelic language...or maybe Celtic is the language family and Gaelic
and Welsh are both derivatives of it.  Either way, it's a language.

On Nov 9, 2007 11:44 AM, Johnson, Steve (NIH/OD/ORS) [E]
<johnsons at vrp.ncrr.nih.gov> wrote:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiOS has the following quote:
> According to Verizon, "Fios" is an Irish (Gaelic) word for "knowledge".
>
> Does anybody have any clues about what "gaellic" is, I mean is there a body
> of literature/folklore there - whatever.  Maybe this is the land of winged
> faeries.
> Not that any of this is going to add greatly to my inisights to the FiOS
> technology* but pursuant to all the computer hoopla about gurus and wizards,
> well following that tack I have read the mediaeval Nibelungensleid (don't
> put a dragon in front of Sigfried - there will be an attach) and Tristan
> (more by the troubadours) and then the wizard Merlin (Geoffrey of Monmouth -
> see wikisource.  I can only conclude that as Larry Wall said, leave wizard's
> contests alone, stay out of them. unless you like windy weather)
> *it is already too late to help with my stumbling knowledge of terminal
> servers
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