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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:34:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
To:        Iridium Ronin <iridiumronin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108281822580.350-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010829002026.62755.qmail@web20206.mail.yahoo.com>

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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


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