From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 13:55:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07723 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Arizona.EDU (Penny.Telcom.Arizona.EDU [128.196.128.217]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA07686 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov by Arizona.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #2381) id <01I9S5I20Z6OCTZEJ9@Arizona.EDU> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:54:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost by sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03115; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:53:36 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:53:35 -0700 From: Doug Wellington Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. In-reply-to: "Your message of Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:41:14 -0400." <199609221851.OAA07953@mh004.infi.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov Message-id: <9609222053.AA03115@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What about just putting the messages on the second virtual terminal so that you can get to them with ALT-F2? (Haven't looked to see when that is actually available, but that would seem to be a logical place to put the probe messages...) Then, we could put some "slick" logo on the first virtual terminal for all those other people... (Hmmm, when was the last time I rebooted my FreeBSD box and even saw those probes anyway???) I too work with a building full of Mac-heads (oh, yes, I DO love Macs so!) and a couple of them really only seem to want the scanned in pictures they have as startup screens, and God forbid I should mess with their After Dark setups!!!! (A couple of my users still want to stick to Word Perfect 1.0 on their Macs...!) As for the Win95 stuff, you can permanently remove the startup logo and see the messages all the time if you want. I have mine set that way. For info, see the Sept 10th PC Magazine, page 339... Eeek, does that mean, by admitting that I use Win95, that I'm going to be ostracized? ;-) ...actually, if it weren't for TK, I wouldn't even consider trying to tell my users that they should work with Unix and X. But then, we could start that whole thread about why users would want to use Unix when there is no "decent" spreadsheet or word processor available. Caldera is on the right track with that, I think. (My feelings towards Mr. Noorda aside...) I feel constantly tugged apart - Bill Gates on one side, Richard Stallman on the other... It's sort of like Ayn Rand vs. Lao Tzu... -Doug Doug Wellington doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov System and Network Administrator US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ Project Office According to proposed Federal guidelines, this message is a "non-record". Hmm, I wonder if _everything_ I say is a "non-record"...? FreeBSD and Apache - the best real tools for the virtual world! Check out www.freebsd.org and www.apache.org... Chuck - Lord of Darkness? Or Lord of Cuteness?