From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 17 20:33:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87AA715121 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10153; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:32:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001180432.UAA10153@implode.root.com> To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft go it right ;-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:17:46 CST." <200001180417.WAA18448@nospam.hiwaay.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:32:49 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> I think what Guido was getting at is that FreeBSD is number 42, which is >> the answer to everything, or something like that, from the Hitchhiker's >> Guide to the Galaxy. > >"42" is the answer to "What is the meaning of life?" (at least for >earthlings). The mice contracted to have earth built in order to Actually, it was "...life, the universe, and everything". >determine what the real question was. However just moments before the >conclusion of the experiment popped into Arthur Dent's head ("what is 6 >times 7?") his house was destroyed to make way for a bypass. Then >moments later the earth was destroyed by a Vogon construction crew to >make way for an intergalactic bypass. > >Or maybe the mice created earth simply to calculate 6 times 7. Am not >sure, can't find my Hitchiker books, and haven't been able to find it >online. > >Don't forget your towel. ...and don't panic. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message