From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 19:11:24 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D8FFD16A41F for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:11:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486AB43D48 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:11:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 2.2g3) with ESMTP id 24755701 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:11:22 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <200509271140.04600.kirk@strauser.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEHHFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <200509271005.59838.kirk@strauser.com> <433964ED.4010106@gmail.com> <200509271140.04600.kirk@strauser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <371509e6c8a34c972496629b84671981@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:11:27 -0400 To: freebsd-questions Question <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:11:25 -0000 On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: > >> There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming >> from >> Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist >> Christian Crusade. > > I get your point - truly, I do. I also get that Ted was being, well, > Ted. > However, there *have* been people claiming that their Christian > sensibilities were offended by Beastie. On-topic or not, Ted's patch > was > still a darn funny response to those people. Um...when this is supposedly an issue, how often is the reason cited "professional", and how often is it because it's "offensive"? How many people really do it because of the latter, but fall back on citing the first? I don't recall too many times where Tux causes "unprofessional" cries. I can clearly see why Ted would assume that people's motives are based on religious bias. It's stupid to take it up as a major issue. But it's more stupid to get offended by it in the first place. I just heard a story in...where...Britain?...where Burger King is pulling their ice cream cone covers because one person said the symbol on it bore a resemblance to the Muslim word for Allah (correct me if someone has the story in print to cite, please). He wants all Muslims to refuse going to Burger King because of it, despite BK pulling them off the shelf to redo them (it's just a swirling ice-cream symbol). Look up how to disable the boot image, or code a way to easily plug in your own custom images and have it slipped into the code base. Personally I'd rather set the boot image to whatever I'd want, or make it something functional (like BeOS had). Or...why are your BSD systems rebooting so often that this is an issue? -Bart