When Mozy starts backing up (2 gigs of automatic backup for free!), at some point it says “reticulating splines”. What does that mean?
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When Mozy starts backing up (2 gigs of automatic backup for free!), at some point it says “reticulating splines”. What does that mean?
Peter Van Dijck 
I think that’s a SimCity inside joke.
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