[AG-TECH] PIG?

Don Morton morton at cs.umt.edu
Tue Jul 9 23:25:10 CDT 2002


Particularly since AG has an "Agricultural" ring to it, I think
it's kind of fitting to have acronyms that make us think of
livestock and crops - right Barbara (Kucera)??!!!! :)


On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Randy Groves wrote:

> Sorry folks - Don is right.
>
> I didn't mean to cast any aspersions on the efforts.  Just wondering how
> the folks here at Boeing will take to using a PIG at their desks.
>
> I'm not really that hard over on it, actually - it does have it's
> attractions ...
>
> -randy
>
> At 01:56 PM 7/9/2002 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
> >I "think" Randy was pleading for an acronym other than PIG :) :)
> >I don't know, it's kind of growing on me..... :)
> >
> >"Ivan R. Judson" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey Randy,
> > >
> > > I've been holding off responding hoping someone who's actually touching
> > > the code would first, but I can't help it now.  We're actively working
> > > to make things easier, the PIG is a very limited first pass at getting
> > > the 1.0 software able to run on a single box to provide interactions for
> > > a single user.  That being said, we are looking for people to request
> > > features and report bugs!
> > >
> > > Please read the release notes (they answer Cindy's question among
> > > others), and continue to send email to ag-tech.  If you don't get a
> > > response let me know and I'll go shake the trees until someone falls out
> > > who can answer you.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry for the lack of response, we're not ignoring anybody, but we
> > > are scrambling to make sure we can answer the questions the best way
> > > possible.  That means fixing things, for now.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > --Ivan
> > >
> > > ..........
> > > Ivan R. Judson .~. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson
> > > Futures Laboratory .~.  630 252 0920
> > > Argonne National Laboratory .~. 630 252 6424 Fax
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:13 PM
> > > > To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > > Subject: [AG-TECH] PIG?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure if this acronym was intended to reflect the size
> > > > or speed of
> > > > the AG's little brother, but the gleam is wearing off for me.
> > > >
> > > > Any other suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > -randy
> > > >
> >
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