On 2/28/21 1:50 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Big ink-jet printers being called "plotters" never irked me quite as much as "broadband", but it's still wrong, and my terminologically-obsessive brain just goes into involuntary "NO THAT'S WRONG YOU MORON!" seizures when I hear it.
I took a course on networking (having worked in networking for about 20 years at that point) and the course described switching hubs as routing packets. I went a bit nuts on the professor for the double whammie (it was on a test). Of course with Software Defined Networks things are a little more complicated. ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies