From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 17:30:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 735B937B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: (qmail 2196 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2001 00:30:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (216.151.64.195) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 30 Aug 2001 00:30:46 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd@masspostroad.net" , "Iridium Ronin" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:28:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Message-Id: <20010830003053.735B937B403@hub.freebsd.org> 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 On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:08:25 +0800, Matthew P. Marino wrote: >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 one of the main reasons why they are called "daemons" comes from greek (i think) mythology. daemons were creatures that watched over things for people, if i recall correctly.. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message