From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 5 16: 9:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E53153A4 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA80613; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:33:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:33:39 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Mark Ovens Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An interesting signature Message-ID: <19990705233339.A80211@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <3.0.6.32.19990704104339.009bb4f0@mail.bfm.org> <19990704213005.A439@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990704213005.A439@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:30:05PM +0100 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:30:05PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > I recently received the following. Many a true word spoken in jest? > It is the last paragraph that had me ROFL. [snip] > Ballmer concluded by getting a dig in against the Open Source > community. "This just goes to show that Microsoft continues to > innovate at a much faster pace than open source. I have yet to see > any evidence that Linux even has a BSOD, let alone a customizable > one." XScreenSaver(1) XScreenSaver(1) NAME bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator SYNOPSIS bsod [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-delay seconds] DESCRIPTION The bsod program is the finest in personal computer emula- tion. bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation of a different failure mode of an operating system. Sys- tems depicted include Microsoft's Windows 95 and Windows NT, Commodore-Amiga's AmigaDOS 1.3, SPARC Linux, SCO UNIX, the Apple Macintosh (both the MacsBug debugger and the rarer "Sad Mac"), and the Atari ST. ... N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message