How to start Disk Utility from command line

Patrick Asselman iceblink at seti.nl
Wed Oct 17 06:52:26 UTC 2012


On 2012-10-16 17:20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2012 11:17:11 Patrick Asselman did opine:
>
>> 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 (/ثˆpأ¦lةھmpsة›st/) 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 palimpsؤ“stus from
>> Ancient Greek د€خ±خ»خ¯خ¼دˆخ·دƒد„خ؟د‚ (palأ­mpsestos, “scratched or
>> scraped againâ€‌) originally compounded from د€خ¬خ»خ¹خ½ (palin,
>> “againâ€‌) and دˆخ¬د‰ (psao, “I scrapeâ€‌) literally meaning
>> “scraped clean and used againâ€‌. 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Patrick Asselman
>
> Silly, but serious question Patrick.  What font do I tell kmail to 
> use in
> order to properly display the above swahili as something this old 
> Iowa farm
> boy can read and understand?
>
> Cheers, Gene
> --
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My apologies if it didn't come through correctly. I use the Roundcube 
webmail client on a home server, to circumvene restrictions on the 
company firewall. I simply copy and pasted some text from wikipedia and 
it looked okay in the entry field. (If you are wondering what it should 
have looked like, check out the link to Wikipedia.)

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman




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