Re: [libreoffice-users] attempting to find an answer and instead ...

       Thanks for this explanation.

       Just thinking ... before the 'phone, folks would ring the doorbell
...
                                 after the 'phone, folks would ring the
'phone ...
                                    so I guess ping is the cross between
ring and pc -
       interesting that's it's ping rather than p-ring p-ring p-ring ...



On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>wrote:


> Joel Madero wrote:
> <snip>
>
>
> > A ping is just a quick email (or IRC message, etc...) that says "hey, any
> > updates", some users even just say "ping" in IRC basically saying "hey,
> > you
> > around?"
> <snip>
> Joel,
> "ping", another overloaded word:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Ping<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping>
>
> But those of us in the computer networking field assume:
>
>    Ping, a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host
>    is reachable across an IP network
>
> Colloquially, it is used as you define it - to send a quick message to
> someone to see what's going on in their life. As in
> "I haven't heard from him for a while - I'm going to ping him to see what
> he's up to."
> Girvin Herr

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