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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by saltcured on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:42PM (#41897086)
Do you pronounce the vowel in /var as in "bar" or as in "bare"?

Also, for those who try to pronounce everything rather than spell them out, where does it end?

I now have a newly discovered, morbid interest in how such folks say path elements like "selinux", "httpd", and "pgsql"...

Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by JadeNB on Monday October 21, 2024 @09:43AM (#41904097)
> Do you pronounce the vowel in /var as in "bar" or as in "bare"?

Ha, they're everywhere!