From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 10:53:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10527 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA10517 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA03659; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 19:52:36 +0200 From: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es (Borja Marcos) Received: by sirius.we.lc.ehu.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04912; Thu, 12 Jun 97 19:54:27 +0200 Message-Id: <9706121754.AA04912@sirius.we.lc.ehu.es> Subject: Re: FREEBSD ON TELEVISION PROGRAM To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 19:54:26 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199706121659.JAA09110@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 12, 97 09:59:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Well, I was flipping through channels last night, and what did I see? > > The Fox Broadcasting program "Strange Universe" was doing a segment > on information privacy, and was showing a booting machine, which > came up with a "FreeBSD 2.1.0 (GENERIC bla bla)" login! > > This is nearly as cool as the "BSD 9.2" graphical login in the > movie "Die Hard!"... ... Or the "C:\UNIX>" prompt a friend mentioned in a short science fiction story... (a mathematician). Unfortunately I discovered the error when he had just submitted the story to the university's scifi contest. Anyway, after that, he started to learn Unix (they bought a NeXT) and he won't write such terrible things again. Borja. -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjam@well.com 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * borjamar@sarenet.es SPAIN * CompuServe: 100015,3502 ***********************************************************************