From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 4 09:24:13 2007 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 5380516A41F for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc) Received: from signal.itea.ntnu.no (signal.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.190.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2695A13C46C for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by signal.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3E336E4A for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 10:50:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by signal.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 10:50:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 39736 invoked by uid 88); 4 Aug 2007 10:50:40 +0200 Received: from maren.math.ntnu.no (HELO weld.ej2.thelosingend.net) (129.241.211.48) by maren.thelosingend.net (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:50:23 +0200 Message-ID: <46B43D79.7030204@lvor.halvorsen.cc> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:48:57 +0200 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070523) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: id=9198BB40; url=mailto:pgpkey@svein.halvorsen.cc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: Nikos Vassiliadis , Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens? 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, 04 Aug 2007 09:24:13 -0000 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> I'm not sure >>> I prefer the alternative, something like Ubuntu or PCLinux, where you >>> just shut your eyes, lie back and think of South Africa, not knowing >>> quite what's getting installed on your PC. Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: >> That's not a very nice comment to do. Please, keep your feelings >> about continents/countries/Linux distributions out of here. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I really detest the politically correct, particularly the uneducated > politically correct. > > "lie back and think of England" - > >> >From _Dictionary of Catchphrases_ (1995) by Nigel Rees: > > "close your eyes and think of England": traditional advice given to women > when confronted with the inevitability of sexual intercourse, or jocular > encouragement to either sex about doing anything unpalatable. > > South Africa is a tourism spot and boasts a number of popular game > preserves, it is -the- most advanced and developed country in Africa. > As a German it is understandable that he would have vacationed > there, he made a rather clever twist on the standard phrase. I think it was a reference to the fact that Canonical's founder is South African, and that Ubuntu got its name from an African word meaning something like "you are who you are, because of others", or something like that. I also thought it was a clever twist. Svein Halvor