From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 21 12:14:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB22158AB for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.123]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA1B18; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:10:27 +0200 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00361; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:10:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <371E17D4.E31D0DE7@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:10:37 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Marius Bendiksen , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , FreeBSD Chat , Greg Lehey , illiad@userfriendly.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Apr-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> On 21-Apr-99 Wes Peters wrote: >> > Marius Bendiksen wrote: >> >> This must be one of the best plot lines of all time. CC:'ing it to >> >> Illiad. >> >> > > >> Right, that's why we've caught you at it, too :-) >> >> > > > You bet, I'm only human*! :-) >> >> > > > - Jordan >> >> > > > * Or a PERL script, depending on whom you believe. >> >> > > Well, we cannot trust a PERL script to make us belief that Jordan >> >> > > is human now can you? >> >> > > I mean: >> >> > > freefall$ ll >> >> > > 24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 jordan jordan - 24195 Feb 16 1992 jordan.pl >> >> > > Can't we market this as the ultimate AI? =) >> >> > > Given, occasionally it's not being very co-operative *grin* >> >> > Maybe we can get Illiad to incorporate Jordan into one of the AI >> >> > story lines. Jordan vs. the Sith Lord? ;^) >> > >> > I just got back from "The Matrix." Jordan is THE ONE! >> >> I sure hope he's smarter than Ahnold though ;) > > It wasn't Ahnold, it was Keanu Reeves, who bears only a superficial > resemblance to Jordan. Trinity was certainly attractive in her > latex dress, though. Do you think we can get Jordan a date with > her if we point out he is THE ONE? ;^) Yeah, but I thought that the Jordan Perl script was fond of sheep instead of women? But to be frank, AFAIK the Matrix isn't out here yet... So I have no opinion on Trinity yet... >> Btw, speaking of trademarks, can't we market it like this: >> JordanBSD(r): The One!(tm/sm) >> >> Would be fun... A fully interactive AI and such... > > Imagine that -- immersive reality written in Perl. ;^) Nah, doesn't compute eh? ;) Mayhaps if we rewrote him in, ehm, lessee, Python? Nah... Expect! That's it... Jordan must have been written in Expect, how else can he answer so often that it doesn't see the patches attached... Yeah that's it... He's an Expect script... >> Then again, the other AI known as TerryBSD might complain ;) > > No, but I understand TerryBSD has a "required" daemon that is hard- > coded into init. It will search for any JordanBSD systems on the > net and attack them by streaming physics texts into every available > TCP port. ;^) Does that include the various snippets of book excerpts? =) Wonder what TerryBSD is written in... Must be pure C I reckon? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message