http://www.libcoffee.net/articles/2005/09/09/vulture en-us 40 :: Just another Typo weblog :: <p><i>n.</i> <ol><li>Any of various large birds of prey of the New World family Cathartidae or of the Old World family Accipitridae, characteristically having dark plumage and a featherless head and neck and generally feeding on carrion.</li> <li>A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.</li></p> <p>The <span class="caps">NFC</span> Vulture class file is a daemon-thread class that constantly checks and removs timed-out servers and clients, a process the author fondly writes as &#8220;<i>eating the dead</i>&#8221;. Adequate and very amusing analogy indeed.</ol></p> <p>Was going through the server-side source when I came across this chunk of code. Who said programming is boring? :)</p> Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:10:00 +1000 urn:uuid:cdb88812-bd9b-4d32-add0-4e69e8f4a80a jerry http://www.libcoffee.net/articles/2005/09/09/vulture Code http://www.libcoffee.net/articles/trackback/228