From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 1:33:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7BB37B405 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 01:33:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from list1.xs4all.nl (list1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.52]) by smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fBC9XXlv031465 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:33:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (from root@localhost) by list1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28677; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:33:26 +0100 (CET) From: micheloo@xs4all.nl (Michel Oosterhof) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Via: imploder /usr/local/lib/mail/news2mail/news2mail at list1.xs4all.nl Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. Date: 12 Dec 2001 10:33:19 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL, Networking for the masses Message-ID: <9v788v$jc3$1@xs4.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C16C7B1.1151FCC5@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [offtopic] tlambert2@mindspring.COM (Terry Lambert) writes: >SFMOMA -- The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art -- had an excellent >exhibit on industrial design. >One of the examples was an emergency telephone. >It was a pedestal, with wing-like protrusions on either side (to cut >out road noise), a waterproof grille at an angle (covering the the >microphone/speaker combination), and a very large yellow button. >It was, I think, the epitome of beauty and elegance in industrial >design for human factors: its use was obvious and unambiguous... >you walked up, put your head inside the "wings", and pressed the big >yellow button. >Apparently, these units have been deployed in a number of European >countries for road-side assistance. It sounds very much like a dutch emergency telephone. They're placed along the dutch highways every few kilometers. Was it yellow? Here's a picture: http://www.anwb.nl/content/images/historie_ww_1994vraagpaal.JPG michel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message