From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 14:25:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx0.ecxnetwork.net (mx0.ecxnetwork.net [208.144.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A3D37B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JHilgeman@ecx.com) Received: from mailsvr.ecx.com (ecx-irv-ns100.ecxnetwork.net [208.144.33.1] (may be forged)) by mx0.ecxnetwork.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7TL9rV63612; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JHilgeman@ecx.com) Received: by mailsvr.ecx.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:22:58 -0700 Message-ID: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3EE6B@mailsvr.ecx.com> From: Jonathan Hilgeman To: "'freebsd@masspostroad.net'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:22:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Theory #1139: A demon is thought to be a supernatural being that has limited power, but its power cannot be used unless it is invoked. Likewise, a daemon sits in the background and HAS power, but it doesn't use it unless it is called or invoked. - Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Matthew P. Marino [mailto:freebsd@masspostroad.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:08 AM To: Iridium Ronin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon/demon, it's a trivial word play. Now why they called them daemon is another issue. I'm sure there's a very deep logical reason that any computer scientist PHD would understand. Iridium Ronin wrote: > > Hello > I just wanted to ask a question about your site. > 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. > That's kind of weird / obvious... don't you think? So > what IS up with that Devil? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message