<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The first hit when googling for s</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium;">orcerer's apprentice mode is a Wikipedia page explaining it, including the original TFTP but which motivated the naming. The third hit is an urban dictionary link which is not quite as descriptive. (The second hit is not in English.)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3">Almost like the information was there if you looked for it....</font></span></div><div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">-- </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">TTFN,</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13pt;">patrick</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.285156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.214844); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.214844);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.285156); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.214844); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.214844);">Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.28125); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.210938); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.210938);"><br></span></div></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Oct 7, 2014, at 16:33, Joe Abley <<a href="mailto:jabley@hopcount.ca">jabley@hopcount.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span></span><br><span>On 7 Oct 2014, at 16:25, Jeremy Chadwick <<a href="mailto:jdc@koitsu.org">jdc@koitsu.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Editing mistake on my part. 2nd paragraph should have read:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>What does this phrase even mean? I've been in IT and networking since</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>the early 90s and this is the first time I've heard this phrase.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I haven't heard anybody use the phrase, but it seems pretty obvious what it means.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Perhaps it helps to have had children who have passed through an enthusiastic "watch disney movies with daddy" phase.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Joe</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Outages-discussion mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Outages-discussion@outages.org">Outages-discussion@outages.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>