[Novalug] Tweaking question

[Jay Hart]

> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Jay Hart wrote:
>
>> Actually, Maryland is too.
>>
>
> I know that:-) I was being a bit sarcastic - although when I was in jr
> high school I distinctly remember having an agruement with a teacher in
> which I insisted that Maryland was a city in Northern Virginia. Why is it
> that memory of being really wrong can often be so strong?
>
> In any case Port Deposit - a MD town north of us is infamous for
> being a stronghold of one branch of the kkk.
>
> Also whenever I drive up to PA many of the non-freeway roads actually
> have a sign on them that says "Mason Dixon" line accompanied by a change
> in the pavement.

Used to CLEARLY define the line between Union and Non-union labor...

Jay

>
>
>> Jay
>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Peter Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 13:12 -0500, Charles M Howe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> List,
>>>>>
>>>>> When people say they have "tweaked" something, does that frequently mean
>>>>> that they have found and edited a configuration file, or more than one?
>>>>> What else do they do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To me it usually means they 1) either don't know what they did or 2)
>>>> don't want to reveal what they did. For instance, it's common "geek
>>>> talk" to the common non-it person. It simply means something has been
>>>> changed. It doesn't have to be a lot, but it can be more than one thing.
>>>> It doesn't have to be a 'configuration file' either. It's a very broad
>>>> definition.
>>>>
>>>> Sorta like the southern "fixing" ... I'll be fixing to go now ... :)
>>>
>>> Y'all mean "I'll be fixin' to go now".
>>>
>>> There was a day (in my childhood) when n'thern Virginia was still south of
>>> the mason dixon line :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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