From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 29 22:59:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA21846 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:59:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (csnet.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA21842 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) with ESMTP id IAA10001; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 08:58:13 +0200 Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA00712; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 08:58:54 +0200 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 08:58:54 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Wes Peters cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon stories ( german customs ) In-Reply-To: <3480FD6F.167EB0E7@xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > I think people shouldn't be too put out by these occasional > incidents. > > There are some good ones about texas rednecks and "we just wanted to > > know what the lord of darkness was doing on your chest, Maam?" which > > involve our little mascot and go back several decades. If it proves > > anything at all, it's that there are still religious elements in > > various western societies who'd probably be a lot happier living in > > someplace like Iran and should probably movethere at the first > > opportunity. :) > > Yup. I have a sticker in the back window of my car (actually a Toyota > 4x4 with a shell) from my ISP. They're pretty much a bunch of tech- > heads stuck (by their own choice) here behind the "Zion Curtain." Some > of the locals don't take to kindly to my window sticker, which reads > "God uses UNIX." My fellow churchmembers don't seem to mind. ;^) > > Tangential story: the first two UNIX systems back at dear old > Clyde/Raxco/Axent, which was chock full of BYU graduates, were named > Ebed and Melech. Two netdollars to the first contributor who say why > they were given such odd names. ;^) Well, seems obvious: There was some kind of client/server or master/slave relationship between them??? (for those wondering, melech is Hebrew for king, and Eved - Hebrew for slave). > > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters > Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr > softweyr@xmission.com > Nadav