Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.11.11 23:49, Adam Vande More wrote: > I thought I remembered this little gem: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177810.html LMFAO!! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.11.11 19:44, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Not this shit again... Amen! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@free

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Richard T C Farnes
To Da Rock and others Please feel free to use my text here in any marketing. On Tuesday 23 November 2010 00:47:50 Da Rock wrote: > On 11/23/10 07:29, Richard T C Farnes wrote: > > Why do some people get hung up in some features of our cute little > > mascot that remind them of devils. You must

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-22 Thread Da Rock
On 11/23/10 07:29, Richard T C Farnes wrote: Why do some people get hung up in some features of our cute little mascot that remind them of devils. You must look at it in a positive way that represents FreeBSD like a sporting character that has a sporty attitude. Just observe the modern running

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-22 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Richard T C Farnes wrote: [...] > Linux has only a lazy penguin > that does not seem to be  doing anything except sitting on its behind. > :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-22 Thread Richard T C Farnes
Why do some people get hung up in some features of our cute little mascot that remind them of devils. You must look at it in a positive way that represents FreeBSD like a sporting character that has a sporty attitude. Just observe the modern running shoes and it has a harpoon in its hand to s

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-20 Thread Andrew Falanga
2010/11/11 José Silveira > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! > > Jose, So many have replied already and I truthfully haven't read each post. I did want to say something about this though si

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-20 Thread Da Rock
On 11/14/10 05:22, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-19 Thread Da Rock
On 11/13/10 16:08, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > there will no no next language. there is no need to have C follower. > > C is perfect > > Which C are you referring to here? The original K&R, ANSI, or some > other variant? ANSI C is different enough from K&R C -- in strength > of ty

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-16 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > there will no no next language. there is no need to have C follower. > C is perfect Which C are you referring to here? The original K&R, ANSI, or some other variant? ANSI C is different enough from K&R C -- in strength of typing if nothing else -- that some would say A

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 337, Issue 1, Message: 19 On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:10 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine > >effort. It was over 10K line of C-i

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-15 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/14/10 20:44, Gary Kline wrote: TWo questions: didn't IBM create CPL? And doesn't BCPL Stand for "British Computer Programming Language"? (I did have both editions of the C book by Brian and DEnnis; then loaned the 2nd edition and never got ti back.) I think

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
implemented at all -- but BCPL developed a following. Someone (at Bell Labs?) produced a derivative called B, from which a few researchers at Murray Hill derived C. Thus the question: should the next language in the series be named D (next alphabetically) or P (next letter of BCPL)? there will

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:54:42PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > > I'd say the "Next Big Thing" in the '00s was Python ... or was it XML? Python hasn't been dominant enough. *Maybe* XML -- but that might be a bit of a stretch. It might be a couple years before we can identify it. Hm. Maybe J

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 14 Nov 2010 at 16:29:10 PST Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into C++. Figured since C++ was

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine > effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into > C++. Figured since C++ was "_the_ new language" that it was a > good move

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:37:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:02:49PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010: > > > > > > > > > Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray > > > (in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I re

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:02:49PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010: > > > > > > Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray > > (in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis > > what the deal was with "C++"; I remember

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:02:49PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010: > > > > > > Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray > > (in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis > > what the deal was with "C++"; I remember

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:41:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:44:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I'd vote for "E" since that might have more positive > > connotations that "D". :-) Skip "F" altogether. > > That might be a good point. > > Google has tau

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010: > > > Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray > (in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis > what the deal was with "C++"; I remember him dodging the > thing. Whoever-invented-C++ did a convolu

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:44:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'd vote for "E" since that might have more positive > connotations that "D". :-) Skip "F" altogether. That might be a good point. Google has taught me that single-letter names for programming languages (or anything el

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > should the one-leter name for 'c++' be 'd' or 'p'? > > > (nobody could decide/agree, which *IS* why it is 'c++' > > > to this day) >

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > ... D is already another programming language ... > > It wasn't back then :) It is now, though, so it's a little late. So sorry. > > > I don't know what this P has to do with it. > > You have

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Nov 14 03:09:59 2010 > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:00:35 -0800 > From: per...@pluto.rain.com > To: per...@apotheon.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?) > > Ch

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
> > CPL never amounted to much -- I don't know whether it was ever > implemented at all -- but BCPL developed a following. Someone > (at Bell Labs?) produced a derivative called B, from which a few > researchers at Murray Hill derived C. Thus the question: should > the next language in the se

History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread perryh
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > should the one-leter name for 'c++' be 'd' or 'p'? > > (nobody could decide/agree, which *IS* why it is 'c++' > > to this day) > > ... D is already another programming language ... It wasn't back then :) > I

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > should the one-leter name for 'c++' be 'd' or 'p'? > (nobody could decide/agree, which *IS* why it is 'c++' to this day) Why would we need a one-letter name? C++ is also known as CPP. D is already another programming language, s

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:47:40 -0800 > Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > >>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes: > > Charlie> OK, I'll play: > > Charlie> Gnom

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 12 18:34:27 2010 > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:22:26 -0800 > From: Charlie Kester > To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" > Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:05

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 13.11.2010 21:29, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:18:03 +0100 >> From: Polytropon >> Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? >> >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester >> wrote: >>> On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 1

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:18:03 +0100 > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester > wrote: > > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: > > >Must we continu

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 05:36:13PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Liontaur, > > Am 2010-11-12 23:55:22, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > I was just thinking about how much better vi is compared to emacs ;) > > Thats normaly, because emacs is an Operating System which lakes an editor s

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 05:35:13PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Charlie Kester, > > Am 2010-11-12 16:22:26, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:05:33 PST Gary Gatten wrote: > > >Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: > > > > > >M$ vs Novell > > >"Unix"

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > Did you know... > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > but what's worse is when you play it forward > > I like this o

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Huff
Bruce Cran writes: > The NTDEV list has another way of dealing with these issues: a > thread can get locked if it strays off-topic or becomes otherwise > useless, preventing further follow-ups. That would require a level of active moderation I don't remember seeing here.

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread bdsfbsd
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:37:48 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or the "resources for newbies" on the website? Now that is a good idea.

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:01:22 -0500 Jerry wrote: > I give Wietse a lot of credit for the way he runs his Postfix forum. > Continuing a post after its usefulness has waned, or asking > unrelated questions, etc. can and does get you banished from the > group. Maybe it is time to get a moderator with

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:37:48 -0500 Jerry McAllister articulated: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail > account) wrote: > > > >> i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in > > >> subject ;-) > > > > Can we add this once-a-month question about Beast

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: > >> i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) > >> > > Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or > the "resources for newbies" on the website? Now that is

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:08:51PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Did you know... > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > but what's worse is when you play it forward > ...it installs Windows 2000 I like this one - though

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Liontaur, Am 2010-11-12 23:55:22, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I was just thinking about how much better vi is compared to emacs ;) Thats normaly, because emacs is an Operating System which lakes an editor Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- ##

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Charlie Kester, Am 2010-11-12 16:22:26, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:05:33 PST Gary Gatten wrote: > >Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: > > > >M$ vs Novell > >"Unix" vs "Linux" > >Mainframe vs "PC" > >DAS vs SAN > >Top-posting vs Bottom posting >

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 6:44 PM, "Chris Brennan" wrote: >I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed from >the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered off into the >dark to learn the proper netiquette of this list. Must we continue to beat >this already dead horse?

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 7:18 PM, "Polytropon" wrote: >On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester > wrote: >>On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: >>>Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? >>Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally >>dead horse of

Fwd: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jerry Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM Subject: Fw: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? To: Chris Brennan Has anyone gotten repeated forwards from the above user or is it just me? -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 13.11.2010 15:59, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2010 23:27:42 Mubeesh ali wrote: >> i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) >> > > Let's hack the term and use lucifer instead! Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or th

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Justin V.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Mario Lobo wrote: On Friday 12 November 2010 23:27:42 Mubeesh ali wrote: i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) Let's hack the term and use lucifer instead! -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 12 November 2010 23:27:42 Mubeesh ali wrote: > i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) > Let's hack the term and use lucifer instead! -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winfoes FREE) ___

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/11/12 José Silveira : > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! > > José Silveira > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://l

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:06:55 -0500 Chris Brennan articulated: > Did you know... > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > but what's worse is when you play it forward > > ...it installs Windows 2000 >-- Alfred Perlstein

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:06:55AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin > wrote: > > > > > > What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to > > > subject a living creature to such

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:08:02 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > It's part of my signature it's not like I am spamming *just* my > > sig to the list. > > > > Did you know... > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 > >> Chris Brennan wrote: > >> > >>> Did you know... > >>> If you play a Windows 2000 C

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:06:55AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to > > subject a living creature to such cruelty. > > Is beating a dead horse no more cruel? Do dead hors

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: > > M$ vs Novell > "Unix" vs "Linux" > Mainframe vs "PC" > DAS vs SAN > Top-posting vs Bottom posting > Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada I was just thinking about how much better vi is compa

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:08:02 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > It's part of my signature it's not like I am spamming *just* my > sig to the list. > > Did you know... > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > but what's worse is when you play it forward >

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Nov 13, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 >> Chris Brennan wrote: >> >>> Did you know... >>> If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, >>> but what's worse is when yo

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > Did you know... > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > but what's worse is when you play it forward > >

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:44:01PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed > from > > the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered off into the > > dark to learn

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Mubeesh ali
i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > >> Did you know... >> If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, >> but what's worse is

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > Did you know... > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > but what's worse is when you play it forward > ...it installs Windows 2000 Yes, I think we know that by now.

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:44:01PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed from > the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered off into the > dark to learn the proper netiquette of this list. Must we continue to beat > th

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:47:40 PST Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes: Charlie> OK, I'll play: Charlie> Gnome vs KDE Charlie> Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's) Charlie> GPL vs BSDL Charlie> C vs any other programming language Perl vs Readability Coming from you, Randal

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:47:40 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > "Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes: > > Charlie> OK, I'll play: > > Charlie> Gnome vs KDE > Charlie> Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's) > Charlie> GPL vs BSDL > Charlie> C vs any other programming language >

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes: Charlie> OK, I'll play: Charlie> Gnome vs KDE Charlie> Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's) Charlie> GPL vs BSDL Charlie> C vs any other programming language Perl vs Readability :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 00

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Gary Gatten
ons@freebsd.org' Sent: Fri Nov 12 18:22:26 2010 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:05:33 PST Gary Gatten wrote: >Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: > >M$ vs Novell >"Unix" vs "Linux" >Mainframe vs

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:05:33 PST Gary Gatten wrote: Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: M$ vs Novell "Unix" vs "Linux" Mainframe vs "PC" DAS vs SAN Top-posting vs Bottom posting Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada OK, I'll play: Gnome vs KDE Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's) GPL vs BS

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: > >Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? > > Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally > dead horse of the CLI vs GUI debate. Why "vs"? It's "an

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Gary Gatten
orky1...@comcast.net ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri Nov 12 18:10:55 2010 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gary Gatten mailto:ggat...@waddell.com>> wrote: Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: M$ vs Novell "Unix&

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: > > M$ vs Novell > "Unix" vs "Linux" > Mainframe vs "PC" > DAS vs SAN > Top-posting vs Bottom posting > Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada > > How ironic, I was just having this debate w/ a frien

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: > >> Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? >> > > Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally > dead horse of the CLI vs GUI debate. > > But that has tu

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Gary Gatten
tions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri Nov 12 17:57:46 2010 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: >Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally dead horse of the CLI vs GUI debate. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:38:10PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > You would have starved before now if other people had your attitude. > > Not at all. > > It does indeed involve indulging others to do what you described. There > is no

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:38:10PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > You would have starved before now if other people had your attitude. Not at all. It does indeed involve indulging others to do what you described. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, but "indulgent" is exactly what

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
José Silveira writes: > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Well, i don't think devil is bad thing. What do you think of? Sincerely, -- 소여물 황병희(黃炳熙) | .. 출항 15분전.. $GR: projects/mp3/the-godfather,

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:43:23 -0500 Alejandro Imass articulated: > And in almost all these places there are links to the netiquette, > recommendations on how to search before you post and tons of > information on how to correctly interact with these mailing lists. Which are virtually never used.

Fwd: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Tom Worster wrote: >> On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: >> >>>Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for >>>the first time probably each day.    Some of them will hav

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:15:37PM -0500, Tom Worster wrote: > >> On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: >> [...] > You expect a newbie to know it all. > That is inconsiderate and lazy. > You started somewhere, so does everyone e

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Tom Worster wrote: > On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: > >>Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for >>the first time probably each day.    Some of them will have the same >>mistaken idea since the misunderstanding of it is

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:15:37PM -0500, Tom Worster wrote: > On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: > > >Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for > >the first time probably each day.Some of them will have the same > >mistaken idea since the misunderstand

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: >Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for >the first time probably each day.Some of them will have the same >mistaken idea since the misunderstanding of it is implanted in people's >heads from an early age.Although

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:26:17PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: > > PLEASE let's not rehash this again!!! > > > > I'm only sending the link to the haloed (sp?) daemon now because I > wish I had last time but f'd it up. > I'm done now . . . I just

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:36:29PM -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: José Silveira > > Date: 2010/11/11 > > Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a

Re: Fwd: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 11 November 2010: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: José Silveira > Date: 2010/11/11 > Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > To: Neal Hogan > > > What an absurd! A guy makes a question and an stupid like you sen

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Dave Robison on Thursday, 11 November 2010: > On 11/11/10 15:39, José Silveira wrote: > >Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > > >For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! > > > >José Silveira > >___

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
t this devil religious crap really got to me this time. Cheers, Alex > On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: José Silveira >>> Date:

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/11/2010 09:38, Ross Cameron wrote: > 2010/11/12 José Silveira > >> Why do you use a devil as a mascot? >> >> For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! > > > Because we don't want narrow minded, religious bigots clo

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:38:19AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: > 2010/11/12 Jos?? Silveira > > > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! who are the Muslins and Jwishes anyway? Some form of

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Ross Cameron
2010/11/12 José Silveira > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Because we don't want narrow minded, religious bigots clogging up the mailing lists

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why do you use a devil as a mascot? because i use freebsd. and i am a devil. And every true devil use FreeBSD. For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! José Silveira ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Ott Köstner
On 12.11.2010 6:21, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:39:28PM +, José Silveira wrote: >> Why do you use a devil as a mascot? >> >> For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! > Perhaps it is merely an effective booby tr

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Nov 11, 2010, at 23:25, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:24:01PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:40:03PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: >>> He was forwarding and José top-posted on a private response. >>> >>> And I will top-post til the day I die. >> >> Hu

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:24:01PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:40:03PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > He was forwarding and José top-posted on a private response. > > > > And I will top-post til the day I die. > > Hurry up. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content lice

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Ryan" == Ryan Coleman writes: > > Ryan> Really... I have a finger for that. I *HATE* bottom posting. It > Ryan> makes quick checking of email impossible. > > Only when people don't properly trim... another necessary item in > po

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:06:51PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > Really... I have a finger for that. I *HATE* bottom posting. It makes > quick checking of email impossible. Start a different mailing list, then, where the rule is top-posting. The fact you do not like answering in natural text or

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Ryan" == Ryan Coleman writes: Ryan> Really... I have a finger for that. I *HATE* bottom posting. It Ryan> makes quick checking of email impossible. Only when people don't properly trim... another necessary item in posting, whether top *or* bottom. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Cons

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:40:03PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > He was forwarding and José top-posted on a private response. > > And I will top-post til the day I die. Hurry up. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpf10IDigm1c.pgp Description: PGP signat

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