[mythtv-users] The future of Mythbuntu ISOs

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/23/2015 8:42 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
>> *GLITCH: Greatest Lemon In The Company's History. Back in the late 1970s I
>> took some computer classes at Boston University. The professor worked for
>> IBM and told us that the term GLITCH came from a problem with one of the
>> computers on one of the Apollo missions that could have resulted in a
>> catastrophe. I haven't found supporting documentation, but it's a good
>> story.
> Foldoc gives the etymology as having originated in Yiddish.
>
>   From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (20 July 2014) [foldoc]:
>
>    glitch
>
>       /glich/ [German "glitschen" to slip, via Yiddish "glitshen",
>       to slide or skid]
>
> I suspect that pre-dates the Apollo missions by a bit.
>
>

I'd go with the Yiddish etymology. The lemon thing is working just a bit 
too hard to get there.

Although there *was* a village in the late 1800s in western Russia that 
attempted to launch a blintz into orbit. Experts think the attempt had 
more to do with the effects of the nearby lead mine.