From: maks attems <debian@sternwelten.at>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Gavin Sandie <beach@vicecity.co.uk>,
271396@bugs.debian.org, cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Bug#271396: Kernel help typo
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:53:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915175332.GB1894@stro.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040914141117.GZ642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:10:11PM +0200, maks attems wrote:
> > Use the CPUFreq governor 'userspace' as default. This allows
> > you to set the CPU frequency manually or when an userspace
> > - programm shall be able to set the CPU dynamically without having
> > + programme shall be able to set the CPU dynamically without having
> > to enable the userspace governor manually.
>
> In British English, "programme" refers to a television
> schedule, "program" refers to something a computer runs, see:
> http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=programme&title=21st
>
> Americans use "program" for everything, so using programme here is wrong
> for everyone ;-)
/me laughing
thanks for the explanation, my french mother tongue probably
agreed to aboves change :-)
--
maks
kernel janitor http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
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2004-09-13 21:10 ` Bug#271396: Kernel help typo maks attems
2004-09-13 22:48 ` Francesco Poli
2004-09-14 11:57 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-14 14:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-14 15:10 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-15 17:53 ` maks attems [this message]
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