How to start Disk Utility from command line
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 16 17:51:34 UTC 2012
On 10/16/2012 07:46 AM, Patrick Asselman wrote:
> On 2012-10-16 16:33, Joseph W Joshua wrote:
>> Totally agree. It took me quite a while to get it.
>
> Yes, an intriguing word. It even made me google it.
>
> Apparently it has a deeper meaning:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest
>
> A palimpsest (/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/) is a manuscript page from a scroll or book
> from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again.
> The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient
> Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsestos, “scratched or scraped again”)
> originally compounded from πάλιν (palin, “again”) and ψάω (psao, “I
> scrape”) literally meaning “scraped clean and used again”. Romans wrote
> on wax-coated tablets that could be smoothed and reused, and a passing
> use of the term "palimpsest" by Cicero seems to refer to this practice.
...
Ah... the world's first Etch A Sketch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
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