RE: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-08 Thread Björn König
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] One of the (many) problems with the new logo is the large color variation. This makes it look real kewel when it's displayed on the cover of a CD case, or a poster or a book. But shrinking it down would remove all of that and you would end up with essentially

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-08 Thread Graham Bentley
I also don't understand how the 'Red Globe' with horns thing. In my mind there can be nothing better than just the words FreeBSD Thinking about IBM's logo (the stripey IBM letters) I suggest they have got it just right. Simple and Memorable. There are alot of other logo's that do just that

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:36:03PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: On Nov 07, 2007, at 5:59 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If you compare for example the daemon on the CD cover of the version 1.1 release, pictured here: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/bsd4_3.html Note the fine shading

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Ashley Moran
On Nov 07, 2007, at 6:54 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is really a small thing. The OS still works and mostly better than anything else out

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Ashley Moran
On Nov 07, 2007, at 5:59 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You probably won't find any. One of the (many) problems with the new logo is the large color variation. This makes it look real kewel when it's displayed on the cover of a CD case, or a poster or a book. But shrinking it down would remove

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:54:03 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is really a small thing. The OS still works and mostly better

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:14:10PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: On Nov 07, 2007, at 6:54 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: So, I still put BSDie stickers on things and don't worry about it. Is that what it's called? I've always called it Beastie. I can't even tell you why. Prounced the

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
It's just coincidence, but the many rack-mounted servers I've put a Beastie sticker on tend to run much smoother and reliably LOL, I thought there was a trick to it! I'll take about three dozen ;) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread James
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:50 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:54:03 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It is hard to admit, but) I generally agreed with Ted in this whole thing - at least on how the new logo thing missed its mark rather widely. But, it is

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-07 13:49, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know for sure. We shall rue the day beastie was ever demoted to mere mascot. RUE I TELL YOU The beastie is here[1] to stay, no worries... [1] 'Here' as in anywhere I can attach a sticker :-) ...and now I'll

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-07 13:49, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know for sure. We shall rue the day beastie was ever demoted to mere mascot. RUE I TELL YOU The beastie is here[1] to stay, no worries... [1] 'Here' as in anywhere I can attach a sticker :-) ___

RE: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ashley Moran Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chad Perrin; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD art? On Nov 02, 2007, at 2:05 pm, James wrote

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-02 Thread Ashley Moran
On Nov 02, 2007, at 6:25 am, Chad Perrin wrote: Do you mean this?: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html Aha! yes that's it. I thought the artwork page was all there was. However there's no Powered by FreeBSD version of those, and the licensing terms are scarier than most MS EULAs. I

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-02 Thread James
and the licensing terms are scarier than most MS EULAs. I think I will leave it for now... Thanks for the link though Ashley 1. Write to[EMAIL PROTECTED] asking permission to use a trademarked image 2. Include a trademark sign on your site 3. Include a line that says

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-02 Thread Ashley Moran
On Nov 02, 2007, at 2:05 pm, James wrote: 1. Write to[EMAIL PROTECTED] asking permission to use a trademarked image 2. Include a trademark sign on your site 3. Include a line that says something like Trademark of the FreeBSD foundation 4. Don't cut up the image and reproduce it in some

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:16:01AM +, Ashley Moran wrote: Hi I was going to use a Powered by FreeBSD banner but all of the images at http://www.freebsd.org/art.html are using the old Beastie icon and not the new round shiny one. Are there any available? Do you mean this?:

New FreeBSD art?

2007-10-31 Thread Ashley Moran
Hi I was going to use a Powered by FreeBSD banner but all of the images at http://www.freebsd.org/art.html are using the old Beastie icon and not the new round shiny one. Are there any available? Thanks Ashley -- blog @ http://aviewfromafar.net/ linked-in @