From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 18:34: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD5737B405 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f7T1Y2977928; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:34:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Iridium Ronin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20010829002026.62755.qmail@web20206.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Iridium Ronin wrote: > Hello > I just wanted to ask a question about your site. well, this is the place for questions. > Yestertday, I was watching the Screensavers on TechTV. > And when one of the people there asked one of your > representatives (the one he was talking with) what > that little Devil on your logo meant, you told him > that he couldn't tell him about that Devil and then > suddenly said that the connection was getting bad, > even though I could still clearly hear his voice. this is called "interferance". it happens when electronics have some problems. it may have been in the studio, since the audio recording and the video recording happen through different equipment, and are combined again in the control room. one can be affected and the other not. > That's kind of weird / obvious... don't you think? So > what IS up with that Devil? he's not a devil, he's a daemon. his official home is: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/ some history of BSD in general is at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html and, of course, in our own beloved FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html there you go. there's more out there, a good google search may help. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message