From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 12:01:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BF416A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:01:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D50D43D53 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:01:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (exo.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29548A94C for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:01:37 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42357D1F.9020508@landgren.net> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:01:35 +0100 From: David Landgren Organization: The Lusty Decadent Delights of Imperial Pompeii User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20050313104132.A5CA04BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050313142855.I67860@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <20050313142855.I67860@maren.thelosingend.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:01:38 -0000 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [...] > It's all about what connotation you put on the word. > > E.g. to make a file world read-writable you would type "chmod 666 file". Ah, but you are talking in octal! % perl -le 'print oct 666' 438 No evil here :) > Even though the number 666 is the number of the devil, the number itself > is not evil. Just as little as the command is evil, or someone who types > it. It's just a number. Put whatever meaning into it you like! Q.E.D. (my apologies for keeping such a silly thread alive) ObTopic: I think the OP was quite within his/her rights about wanting to disable the ASCII-art da?emon, yet wishing to continue to use FreeBSD. I find it pretty silly myself. I also note that FreeBSD understands 'tail -100 -F' and Linux (gnu fileutils?) doesn't. The devil is in the details, as it were. A chorus of "reformat your disk and use something else you lowlife moron without a sense of humour" does little to advance the cause. David