From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 21:49:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029F31065674 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.39.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D97208FC19 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11460 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 2010 21:49:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2010 21:49:16 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=YBrd7Al/NsCRCEYY1Lhu69pzuDFSaW0FN5BZq/30qUv+o8V2/kgoduqOqCy8PSmJpr7Uwdj3zGnxjwe579gzSH/qzypFEvNkGd6ERJzTCDzAdhxG0MUXYc2qUgZ7ANdk; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ocmap-0000QW-35 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:49:16 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:47:25 -0600 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:47:25 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100724214725.GA82251@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100724185925.GA69480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DocE+STaALJfprDB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100724185925.GA69480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: BSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:49:17 -0000 --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:59:25PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: >=20 > 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=20 > 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). >=20 > 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxLX20ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWdMgCglZOd/RanPukb7GWJQKsHT/AK SMsAn1Tw8WeOAL/jEOlTeNpFDLruXJfj =AfeS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--