From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 12 10:53:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13359 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA13353 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id NAA20756; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:51:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:51:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199704121751.NAA20756@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co CC: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <334D0D24.23E4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> (message from Pedro Giffuni on Thu, 10 Apr 1997 08:54:12 -0700) Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>> B,66; I,73; L,76; L,76; G,71; A,65; T,84; E,69; S,83 and a 3 (His >>>> complete second name is Gates III) it all adds 666 (the number of the >>>> beast). Other famous terms: >>>> MS DOS 6.21 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54 = 666 >>>> Windows 95 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666 >> Where are you getting your number system from? I've never seen a "standard" >> for english gematria. > ASCII code (I extracted this from the local newspaper), I guess the evil > one doesn't have to follow a particular "standard" :) I'm actually suprised he didn't follow IBM's lead and come up with his own character code. (We have yet to see full Unicode acceptance though... fear springs eternal...) -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped