From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 18:22:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288A915476 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max3-28.gbis.net [207.228.60.220]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12654; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA17391; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <01be01bf5bda$a03836e0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "nathan" , Subject: Re: you'll like this.,.. maybe (Seriously Off Topic...) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:21:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Interesting. I once saw an EDS ATM machine at 7-Eleven reboot after a power failure. The little screen showed that it was a 386 machine with 16MB ram. It complained about not having a keyboard connected, then booted (of all things) OS/2, loaded the program manager (which looked like Windows 3.0) and then the ATM application... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! -----Original Message----- From: nathan To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:30 PM Subject: you'll like this.,.. maybe >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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message