Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:18:36 -0500 From: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg@london.com> To: "Stephen McKay" <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day? Message-ID: <20050510181837.1B8A14BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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> > We can't just forget about it and pray for it to go away. > > > > This is an aesthetic violation to FreeBSD's professional image, > > that is considered to be more important now than ever. >=20 > There is no "aesthetic violation" to forget about or pray over. I like to appreciate. And it's easier to appreciate something that is CORRECT. real memory =3D 100663296 (96 MB) avail memory =3D 93036544 (88 MB) Looks like it's been written by some Linux geek. Real memory =3D 100663296 (96 MB) Available memory =3D 93036544 (88 MB) Doesn't. > As you suggested, I compared these with diff, ignoring the gratuitous > spacing modification using "diff -b". >=20 > In the end, I don't think I can consider even one of your changes to > be an improvement. The closest you came to a useful change was the > capitalisation of "Real memory", but that's hardly necessary, and > the accompanying change to the next line upsets the formatting. Ofcourse it doesn't improve the functionality. And I get the feeling that's what you're all about. > In short, I think you should find some other way to pretty up your FreeBSD > boot. As suggested earlier, try "man splash". Again, I want it to look correct. -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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