Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:14:08 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> To: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> Cc: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: etymology of the emergency holographic shell Message-ID: <5513FC4A-B497-481D-AE77-15CB01B40FC6@mail.turbofuzz.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BE3k93k8Jx0dK_wAoSRCsg=D7=6QnS_gFAYBPDxyZkfENfHQw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BE3k93k8Jx0dK_wAoSRCsg=D7=6QnS_gFAYBPDxyZkfENfHQw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Nov 18, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org = <mailto:royce@tycho.org>> wrote: >=20 > Random question ... does anyone know the history of why is it called > the "emergency holographic shell=E2=80=9D? Ah yes=E2=80=A6 Because I was watching =E2=80=9CStar Trek Voyager=E2=80=9D= at the time, and the Emergency Medical Hologram = <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)>; (or = =E2=80=9CEmergency Holographic Doctor=E2=80=9D as the character was more = popularly known) was pretty much the only good thing about the show, so = I paid homage to him when I created an interactive shell on a spare VTY = that could be used to observe the install in progress and potentially = rescue, or intervene =E2=80=9Cmedically=E2=80=9D, in an install going = bad. Like, say, when you fat-fingered your gateway address and saw from = the progress bar that it was stuck trying to transfer from FTP media, = you could use the EHS to quickly rectify that mistake and potentially = save yourself a lot of grief in an aborted install. So yes, a bit of now ancient Trekkie humor on my part, that=E2=80=99s = all. :-) - Jordan
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