When Mozy starts backing up (2 gigs of automatic backup for free!), at some point it says “reticulating splines”. What does that mean?
When Mozy starts backing up (2 gigs of automatic backup for free!), at some point it says “reticulating splines”. What does that mean?
October 10th, 2007 at 8:16 am
I think that’s a SimCity inside joke.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
It’s a reference to the loading screen of The Sims video game. They have all kinds of quasi-scientific loading messages while the game loads. Here is a screenshot from one of the game’s expansion packs: http://www.thesimszone.co.uk/images/extras/andy/pets_1_retspline.jpg