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Xenonlicht bezeichnet bei Kraftfahrzeugen den Einsatz einer Gasentladungslampe im Abblendlicht beziehungsweise Fernlicht. Geschichte Am Anfang der Entwicklung stand die 1989 von Philips entwickelte D1-Lampe von Osram und Philips, die im Bosch- und Hella-Xenonsystem des BMW E32 und von Hella im Audi V8 verwendet wurde, heute aber nicht mehr produziert wird. Seit 1994 wird die D2-Lampe im Audi A8 und im BMW E38 verwendet, sie wird heute noch in leicht abgewandelter Form produziert. 1991 wurden in einem BMW der 7er-Reihe zum ersten Mal in einem Auto Gasentladungslampen (Bosch) als Xenon...

kiamlaluno

4:14 PM

I meant: Take "foreign light", translated it in Greek, write the English word that would have the same sound.

Kosmonaut

Same sound?

So, something that is homophonous with Xenophaw?

RegDwight

So you were trying to pull a Lewis Carroll?

kiamlaluno

Google Translate reports that "foreign light" is "ξένο φως".

I took out the final sigma, and thought that "Xenophaw" would have a pronunciation close enough to the Greek words. :-)

RegDwight

I like Robusto's edit to the cheese-crust question.

Careful: one more user to edit, and it will be automatically CWed.

Robusto

CWed?

RegDwight

4:19 PM

Community-wikied.

I think 5 is the threshold.

Might be 6.

Nope, 5:

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kiamlaluno

It's time for my daily chat in Calabrian. Good night all. :-)

Ciao.

Tschau

Buona sera.

4:33 PM

Lol I just had an issue where something was working fine on my server but not on the dev server. I was sure I had made the changes, and I had. Can you guess what the problem was?

RegDwight

svn up?

Robusto

Worse.

Checked in to the wrong repository.

RegDwight

That... is worse.

You know something's going wrong when marketing starts printing out your server code on their flyers and coffee mugs.

Robusto

4:53 PM

Ah, work ... see what happens when I spend too much time chatting with you bad influences?

That was clearly your fault, not mine. =P

RegDwight

Yeah, just noticed that I have some work, too. I'm shocked and dismayed.

Robusto

An entirely appropriate reaction.

RegDwight

I learned to react that way by browsing Reddit for five years in a row.

Robusto

That's the real Coding Horror ...

RegDwight

And I won't get anything done tomorrow, either, as I will spend the whole day eagerly awaiting the new data dump, clicking reload over and over and over again.

And now I have to go. Talk you later!

Robusto

5:05 PM

Later.

Rhodri

5:35 PM

I don't know, I wander in here to get my mind off coding issues and what do I find? :-)

JSBangs

don't worry, soon we'll get back to talking about agglutination again

Robusto

6:34 PM

Look, it's already started ...

Rhodri

7:30 PM

That's enough staring at code for one day, I'm off home.

Cheers, everyone.

kikio

7:46 PM

Hello.

I've a urgent question::

We say "Powered by Microsoft", Can we say "Microsoft powered" instead of this?

the link:::

Q: "powered by" and "powered"

Hello. I've a urgent question:: We say "Powered by Microsoft", Can we say "Microsoft powered" instead of this? Thanks ..

usage

Robusto

I answered your question.

kikio

8:22 PM

@Robusto Thanks ..

Kosmonaut

9:05 PM

@kikio: Please don't write things like "this is an urgent question" in your questions. They aren't relevant and won't cause people to respond any faster or slower.

If you put that in the question, I have to clean up the question by deleting it.