Ovum puts the 'O' into Oops

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Clayton

I read that and assumed it was right. #

Posted Friday 18th January 2008 09:24 GMT

Figuring on a grab at mysql meant SAMP. Replacing the L with S. Whatever.

Michael H.F. Wilkinson

A good thing that Apache was not replaced ... #

Posted Friday 18th January 2008 10:40 GMT

by IIS, or we would end up with a LIMP

in more ways than one

Anonymous Coward

Re: A good thing that Apache was not replaced ... #

Posted Friday 18th January 2008 11:10 GMT

I guess since IIS usually runs on Windows, that would probably make it a WIMP...

Steve

Re: Re: A good thing that Apache was not replaced ... #

Posted Friday 18th January 2008 12:32 GMT

WIMP is an average desktop, surely.

Windows, IE, Malware & Porn

Chris Cheale

I'm getting too old #

Posted Friday 18th January 2008 13:29 GMT

WIMP => Window, Icon, Menu, Pointer (or somesuch) has been since I was knee high to a grasshopper.

Obviously what we have here is LASP... now maybe if we substitute PHP/Perl/Python for Ruby we'd have LASR. See, evolution of light source, from a lamp to a laser - nice.

-- not that I think Ruby is any real substitution for Perl/PHP

Michael H.F. Wilkinson

But in astronomy ... #

Posted Friday 18th January 2008 15:38 GMT

WIMP = Weakly Interacting Massive Particle

as opposed to

MACHO = MAssive Cold Halo Object

two theoretical forms of dark matter.

You've got to hand it to them, these must be the neatest acronyms for two competing theories ever

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