[pvrusb2] Embarrassing question

[Mike Isely]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Barry Jett wrote:

>
> Sometimes if you don't ask, you'll never know....
>
> Can someone tell me what the "mci" in
>
> pvrusb2-mci-'release data'.tar.bz2 means ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry

Nothing wrong with that question.

Those are my initials.  Which of course begs the next question: why?

Because I wanted to keep the snapshot version name unambiguous with what 
Aurelien had previously been releasing.  When I started this work in Feb 
2005, I wasn't sure if Aurelien was going to appear again and try to 
resume maintaining the driver.  So I felt it important that should this 
happen that the snapshot names I produced be distinct from what he was 
naming them.  The best way I figured for doing that was to stuff my 
initials in the name.  Clearly now that's not so important but I also 
didn't see any reason to change the convention later on.

And yes, those initials happen to stand for a certain phone company.  But 
I was there first!  It's actually caused me some trouble.  A few weeks ago 
Ameritech, oops I mean SBC, oops I mean AT&T, notified me that I must 
change my login name on their system.  Why?  The notification wasn't clear 
on this, but I later found out that it was because they are apparently 
offended that my login name "mcisely" has "mci" embedded within it :-( I 
used to use just "isely" for login names everywhere, but there are a few 
other "isely"'s floating around on the net so I started prefixing that 
with my initials, hence "mcisely".  The pobox e-mail address is from that 
earlier time.

   -Mike


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