From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 7:14:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skygod.cns.ksu.edu (skygod.cns.ksu.edu [129.130.61.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A881520A for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:14:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Received: from ksu.edu ([129.130.61.24]) by skygod.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA86085 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:45:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Message-ID: <3879F7C8.9B40A401@ksu.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:16:24 -0600 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: you'll like this.,.. maybe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG personally... i found this pretty cool --> while vacationing over the holidays, i was channel surfing in my hotel room when i came across the following displayed on channel 0... previously, channel 0 had just been running a short video loop describing the services etc the hotel offered... but... here's what i saw instead --snip-- sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags:8x8> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on ISA sio0: type 16550A fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on ISA fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold ep0 not found at 0x358 npx0 flags 8x1 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcm0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x13 on ISA DEVFS: ready to run rootfs is 1722 Kbyte compiled in MFS NFS SWAP: 18.20.1.100:/usr/river/netpgc/swap Dec 30 16:54:15 int: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is not owned by root Dec 30 16:54:15 int: login_getclass: unknown class "daemon" Dec 30 16:54:15 int: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is not owned by root NetPGC Reboot in Progress Generating Hosts File Preserving kernel Messages Starting standard daemons: syslogd Starting networking daemons: inetd nfsiod Warning: VDriverMod not loaded Vesa int10h Mode/Port Switcher loaded $ld:vnode.c.v 1.2 1998/10/29 22:29:20 cvrts Exp$ --snip-- it looks to ME like they are using a variant of BSD to run their hotel video hardware... i wonder if its also for handling movie and game charges per room etc.?..?..?.. in any event... being the dork that i am... i thought this was pretty cool.... and it was in a MAJOR hotel chain too :) if this doesn't apply because its not a question... i apologize.... er.. well wait... here's my question --> does anyone else have any ideas/thoughts on this?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message