Ben Jefferys wrote:
> 
> jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > Just to (attempt to) upset you, I find Linux much les stable than
> > Windows95.  I have not had a Windows crash for moinths, while Linux
> > crashes about twice or three times a week, alway when I log out.

> Linux requires more expertise on the part of the user than Windows. 

Whoo!  Whad'ya think John?  Could you use some more expertise? (snicker)
I
> if you can
> hack it, use Linux!

Maybe you should take a class in computers or something!

John, you put the bait out there, I'm sure that you are aware of it.
Plus, how dare you slander the most sublime OS that exists on my
tiny little private planet?

Toby

BTW, what is the proper way to refer to keeper of Csound?  I always
get confused by the case, and number of f's.  Fitch?  fFitch?  ffitch? 
I remember seeing you comment on this a few years ago.  I just tried 'John'.

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Tobiah wrote:

}BTW, what is the proper way to refer to keeper of Csound?  I always
}get confused by the case, and number of f's.  Fitch?  fFitch?  ffitch? 
}I remember seeing you comment on this a few years ago.  I just tried 'John'.
}I think that that is correct anyway.


"Pope John"


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}BTW, what is the proper way to refer to keeper of Csound?  I always
}get confused by the case, and number of f's.  Fitch?  fFitch?  ffitch? 
}I remember seeing you comment on this a few years ago.  I just tried 'John'.
}I think that that is correct anyway.

First I do accept that John is correct and usual.  The rest,...well....
That is actually not a simple thing to explain by e-mail.  The two
correct forms are Fitch and ffitch.  I use both forms, but tend to the
former in mathematics and the later in music.  The ff form is actually
related to earlier Englisg caligraphy, where a capital F has two
strokes with a cross line 

       	------
	|
	| |
      --|-|-
       	| |
      	| |
       /  /
     ____/

I understand that my great grandfather used a ff spelling, but my
father and grandfather used F.  I changed when I got married in the
1960s for reasons rather too complex to explain, but include a feeling
that as Audrey was changing her name it seemed only fair that I change
as well.  It confuses many people and as such I like it.  My
university has myself and my wife separated by 5 pages in the graduate
list for example, and I had a running battle with a professor from
Edinburgh who did not believe teh spelling, and went as far as to
contact the University of Bath about it.  You should know that in the
UK you are entitled to use any name you like, as long as there is no
fraudulent intent.  I had a friend at University who had two bank
accounts, one if which he signed as Lloyd George and the other was his
family name.  The bank never commented, as mine does not.

Back to the music...

	I had always assumed that John was 'fortissimo'.

					Cheers,

					Don Quinn