Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:36:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot Message-ID: <199704041736.JAA21271@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <33454584.39D4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni" at Apr 4, 97 10:16:36 am
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Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > Howdy, > I read some time ago that the "deamons" used by BSD were not so devilish > after all. The term deamon , in it's latin roots, refers to a higher > power, good or bad. In UNIX it is recognized that there are good and bad > deamons. > I have a clear understanding that FreeBSD is not related in anyway to > evil or devils, but probably our mascot will not gain acceptance in > certain countries where religious issues are really important (Israel, > Iran, Irak...). wont be a problem amnong the mainstream Orthodox Jews in either Israel, the US or Europe. i cant speak for the other groups, or for the Bible Belt of the US. > B,66; I,73; L,76; L,76; G,71; A,65; T,84; E,69; S,83 and a 3 (His > complete second name is Gates III) it all adds 666 (the number of the > beast). Other famous terms: > MS DOS 6.21 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54 = 666 > Windows 95 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666 well i guess that confirms what i suspected all along. ;) playing(?) with sums formed from letters is a very old practice. in hebrew every letter is also a number so no translation table is required. the sequence for the letters runs 1, 2, 3, ... 9, 10, 20, ... 100, 200, 300, 400. no 0. 400 is the last leter of the alphabet (alef bet, are the first two letters of the alphabet[a]) numbers larger than 400 are fomed by repeating 400, etc...well i guess that i have rambled enough. jmb
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