Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Overheard at work

Coworker: Where's the Linux agent?
Me: Same place the Mac agent was. On the FTP site.
Coworker: I don't see it. Oh wait, is it the dot tar?
Me: Yep. Good old tarball. Is it gee zipped?
Coworker: Nope. Just tar'ed
Me: Heh... 'tard.

1 comment:

Justin Buist said...

In a "previous life" tarballs were a rather important part of our internal functions as a company. They were referred to often enough that one Saturday while I was working on a rush job and the CEO was in the office he finally asked me what the heck that name meant.

It was kinda fun explaining how the term came about to a dude that was much older than me.