Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 14:33:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> Cc: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satanic logo Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970901142854.5932B-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970829150136.332A-100000@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it>
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > > >From chapter 31 of the "Unix System Administration Handbook" by > Nemeth (a very good book) : > > The words "daemon" and "demon" both come from the same root, but > "daemon" is an older form and its meaning is somewhat different. A > daemon is an attendant spirit that influences one's character or > personality. Daemons aren't minions of good or evil; they are > creatures od independent thought and will. As a rule, UNIX systems > seem to be infested with both daemons and demons. Yes, "daemon" is from Ancient Greek, and had no connotation of evil. As mentioned above it is a minor spirit of sorts. The Greek means "shining one". Interestnigly enough another cognate word is "diamond", a shining thing. If only some of these complainers had enough spare brain-cycles to stop and reflect for a minute of two, this wouldn't be such a big issue. I say ignore them, unless they won't go away. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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