From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 21 19:05:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA22799 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 19:05:26 -0800 Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA22793; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 19:05:20 -0800 From: krnlhkr@mcs.com Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA02258; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 21:04:36 -0600 Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Tue, 21 Feb 95 21:11 CST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 21:11 CST Subject: Re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon? To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I dunno about people being upset about the daemon. Walnut Creek has a wizard on its logo, and DePaul University is a Catholic university and its mascot is the Blue Demons complete with picture. Probably just the fringe element would get bent. These other 2 things haven't caused much trouble. Also, I still don't understand the picture of the daemon chasing that sperm cell or whatever it was. How about: Biblical Dept: "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast, for it is a CPU's number. That CPU's number is 386." And a picture of the BSD daemon with 386 stamped on its forehead. Ok, I know, too controversial, but I made myself laugh at least ;) Performance Dept: "Put a daemon in your drive - FreeBSD" (re: Put a tiger in your tank) with an adequate picture attached. Possibly something like "Get more I/O per cycle" like the gov't ratings for MPG on cars. Techy Dept: A picture of some hacker (Jordan?) passed out on his keyboard, Jolt cans, chinese food containers, Pizza boxes, Cheez-It boxes, and a "Live to Code, Code to Live" banner on the wall with the BSD daemon standing next to him wearing a Chow Mein box as a hat. Caption reads: "FreeBSD - It's not an OS, it's a way of life." Biker Dept: Alternate to the above - the Daemon on a Harley and "Live to Code, Code to Live - FreeBSD" Marketing Dept: Daemon in a 'vette convertable, driving by the ocean and killer shades on with the logo: "Why go to Chicago when you can go to Berkeley for Free? - FreeBSD" Copyright Violation Dept: BSD Daemon playing a drum with bunny ears "It just keeps going and going...." (Check with your lawyers first, heh). Bad 60's TV Dept: Psychedlic Tie-Die background with BSD Daemon poping out of a window in the letters "FreeBSD" and logo: "Socket to me" (Re: Laugh-In) Sugar coated goodies dept: FreeBSD cereal box like a Wheaties box with the Daemon as the celebrity and the banner across the box: "FreeBSD - it's not just for hackers anymore" Fast Filesystem Dept: BSD daemon behind a counter with a hairnet type getup on him saying "Would you like fries with that" and a nametag that says "NFS" (or WWW) and the caption "FreeBSD - over 20 billion served" Filler Dept: For any of these, to go along with Walnut Creek, a picture of the WC wizard conjuring up the BSD Daemon (tell them to put a face or something on the wizard, BTW, kinda boring) on either the front or back (wherever you didn't put one of my (hehehe) "brilliant" sayings), and maybe a caption like "Behold what the wizard hath wrought." Ya know, just to fill dead T-shirt space ;) Personally, I would like a "painting" style wizard and background with lightning and stuff flashing, real intense look on his face, dragons breathing fire, etc etc and the cartoonish daemon popping out smiling for contrast. (C) Copyright -- NOT! Slam 'em in a .sig for all I care! ;) I'm just trying for the goodies! My brain hurts. That's enough for me for now. I'll try and think of some more. Hey, these are my censored ideas. For your amusement, here are some twisted ones I thought up: A picture of the daemon in leather and 1-900-FreeB&D (with an 'S' "handwritten" over the ampersand) - It hurts so good. A picture of the Daemon rubbing his backside and a tear in his eye: FreeBSD - You can beat it 'til it bleeds. I think I need therapy ;) I'll think up some more. -Louis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis J. Giliberto, Jr. ! Support the Free Software Foundation krnlhkr@mcs.com ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------