Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:47:25 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD logo Message-ID: <20100724214725.GA82251@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20100724185925.GA69480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <E1OcU31-0002Iw-00.vic_sk-mail-ru@f138.mail.ru> <20100724185925.GA69480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:59:25PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > In ancient lore there was a bunch friendly characters who hung > around out of sight and waited for a being - human being mostly - > to need help. One of those creatures would slip in and somewhat > mysteriously do little things to help - not necessarily fix the > whole problem, but place something in the human's way that can help > them solve the problem. These merry creatures were called daemons > - pronounced day-mohn. I guess they are sort of like friendly > sprites of elves. Actually, "daemon" is a Latinization of the Greek "daimon". Daimon is pronounced something more like "die-mahn", but (being from the Latin) daemon is prounounced "dee-mohn". Unix tradition holds that "daemon" is pronounced similarly to the Latin fashion (in practice, roughly like "dee-muhn" by English speakers). > > This has come up on this list a hundred times. Far better to educate > those who are poorly informed than to roll over to prejudice and > misinformation. I agree. Good work. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxLX20ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWdMgCglZOd/RanPukb7GWJQKsHT/AK SMsAn1Tw8WeOAL/jEOlTeNpFDLruXJfj =AfeS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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