In previous mail, David Schwartz spouted... > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:23:05 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > >NeilBrown 03/03/03 > >The third day > >of the third month > >of the third year > >of the third millenium > > I'm afraid it's the fourth year. 2000 was the first year of the > third millenium. 2001 was the second year. So 2002 was the third > year. Sorry. The millenium officially starts at '01, not '00 - Neil was accurate. John -- Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give offence. Rather, it's the product of the direct, cut-through-the-bullshit communications style that is natural to people who are more concerned about solving problems than making others feel warm and fuzzy. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html "Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." - William James "Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies non-comformity; and non-comformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyality -- so obviously thinking must be stopped" [Call to Greatness, 1954] -- Adlai Stephenson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
