Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-20 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 03:58:53PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Not true, based on the heavy response on this issue on the mailing lists every time it comes up. Oh come on. All that noise is from the same eight or ten people, while the thousands just ignore it and hope it will go away.

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:47 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jerry McAllister; Marco Greene (ML); freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt The ultra-pro-beastie movement

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:47 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jerry McAllister; Marco Greene (ML); freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt The ultra-pro-beastie movement

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
-Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:47 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jerry McAllister; Marco Greene (ML); freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt The ultra-pro-beastie movement

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:53 AM To: Marco Greene (ML) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Well, by now

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Re all that stuff about Iraq and oil, etc that I nuked, many times in world history, self serving campaigners have made suckers of the unwashed masses and been able to claim them in a majority. That is not the same as the minority seizing power because of the way our system is constructed. It

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
So, lets leave this topic at that. Either the ultra-anti-beastie or ultra-pro-beastie movements will destroy themselves. The ultra-pro-beastie movement is defined as the status quo, so it's impossible for it to destroy itself (except perhaps by apathy) So beastie stands for

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread RW
On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:47, Luyt wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:06, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world What is the daemon doing to that funny penguin? http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/images/takeittux.png LOL, that would make a

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 13 March 2005 02:06 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world 3. it's bad for my image too, when other people see it, they laugh and go: is

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread RacerX
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 02:06 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional As opposed to? The multi-colored Windows? The Penguin? The Blowfish? 2. having that demon in there, it

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Best way to remove the little fella it is to load a different OS

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:31 am, you wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 02:06 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional As opposed to? The multi-colored Windows? The

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:42 AM To: RacerX Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt adding my $0.02 to the pot I hope FreeBSD folks

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Michael C. Shultz wrote: adding my $0.02 to the pot I hope FreeBSD folks have more pride in their product than to allow a few malcontents cause a logo change. If bestie goes AWOL so may I. Using a product when its own designers won't stick by it seams unwise. -Mike For what values of it?

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:08 am, you wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: adding my $0.02 to the pot I hope FreeBSD folks have more pride in their product than to allow a few malcontents cause a logo change. If bestie goes AWOL so may I. Using a product when its own designers won't stick

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:01 am, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:42 AM To: RacerX Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:08 am, you wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: adding my $0.02 to the pot I hope FreeBSD folks have more pride in their product than to allow a few malcontents cause a logo change. If bestie goes AWOL so may I. Using a product when its own designers won't

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:43 am, you wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:08 am, you wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: adding my $0.02 to the pot I hope FreeBSD folks have more pride in their product than to allow a few malcontents cause a logo change. If bestie goes AWOL so

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP What I think is going to end up happening if they do get a decent logo out of this contest, is that ultimately your going to see the new logo used in a few places here and there on the Internet, and your going to see beastie used at most other places. It will simply present more

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 March 2005 09:04 am, Thompson, Jimi wrote: SNIP What I think is going to end up happening if they do get a decent logo out of this contest, is that ultimately your going to see the new logo used in a few places here and there on the Internet, and your going to

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:27:54AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: If you toss beastie probably should change to change chmod 666 because that number offends some people. While your at it please remove gnome-sword, it likely offends some non Christians to have bible study software in

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 17 March 2005 09:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:27:54AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: If you toss beastie probably should change to change chmod 666 because that number offends some people. While your at it please remove gnome-sword, it likely

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thompson, Jimi Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:04 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt I see changing the logo as an act of cowardice because you are giving

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:44 AM To: Michael C. Shultz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Oh, quit your whining. The Beastie mascot

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Thomas Foster
- Original Message - From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:05 AM Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt -Original Message- From

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:30 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:01 am, you wrote

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Marco Greene (ML)
Sent: March 17, 2005 2:15 PM To: Michael C. Shultz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:30 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:04, Thompson, Jimi wrote: Frankly, I find that most religious people are all about removing religious references [...] baptist class=southernpolitics wing=right No. Some people are going to be a pain in the butt regardless, and they attempt to use their beliefs

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
We live in a day and age where it is politically incorrect to take pride in anything, and it shows. Well, by now we are gleefully off topic for this list, so... No, not at all. The right-wingers take lots of pride in successfully being able to destroy ANWR for example. More

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:44 AM To: Michael C. Shultz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Oh, quit your whining

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:53 AM To: Marco Greene (ML) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Well, by now we are gleefully off topic

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-14 Thread David Landgren
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [...] It's all about what connotation you put on the word. E.g. to make a file world read-writable you would type chmod 666 file. Ah, but you are talking in octal! % perl -le 'print oct 666' 438 No evil here :) Even though the number 666 is the number of the devil,

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-14 Thread -
You shouldn't use FreeBSD then, it is full of evil demons that will take over your system on the first chance they get.. :) Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world 3.

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
You shouldn't use FreeBSD then, it is full of evil demons that will take over your system on the first chance they get.. :) No, that's not very helpful response. If a person has this much difficulty understanding things and assuming religious significance where there is none, then he already

Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world 3. it's bad for my image too, when other people see it, they laugh and go: is THAT your supersystem? blah somebody please tell me, how do i remove

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:06:40AM -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional I don't see much difference between seeing a giant daemon, a giant window, and a giant apple on startup. 2. having that demon in there,

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Fafa Diliha Romanova
Thank you! I don't see much difference between seeing a giant daemon, a giant window, and a giant apple on startup. Like the words of a blind man. It's not a demon, but a daemon. demon n 1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn:

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:06:40 -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world tooo late...by using FreeBSD you've already invited evil into

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Fafa Diliha Romanova [2005-03-13 05:41 -0500] It's not a demon, but a daemon. demon n 1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {daemon}, {daimon}] Firstly, I'd like to say that you of course are free to

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Chris
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Fafa Diliha Romanova [2005-03-13 05:41 -0500] It's not a demon, but a daemon. demon n 1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {daemon}, {daimon} Now, look up Daemon on the same site

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Luyt
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:06, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world What is the daemon doing to that funny penguin? http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/images/takeittux.png -- The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Chris
Luyt wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:06, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world What is the daemon doing to that funny penguin? http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/images/takeittux.png If Fafa is so put out about the Daemon, then Fafa,

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:47:17PM +0100, Luyt wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:06, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: 2. having that demon in there, it invites evil into my world What is the daemon doing to that funny penguin? http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/images/takeittux.png I don't

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:06 AM -0500 3/13/05, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello i find that loader prompt very frustrating: 1. it is *VERY* unprofessional For what it's worth, the default for displaying that image has changed for freebsd 6.x. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems