Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Allen
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:30 -0800, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Allen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the Powerpak :) I love how FreeBSD

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Allen
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 09:44 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Allen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there! Only one 's' in dass is

Re: Firefox in Multiple Windowing Systems

2008-02-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Crist J. Clark wrote: Anyway, anyone know of a trick to get Firefox to work in multiple windowing environments at once? Specifically, I have a machine that runs a local Xorg desktop as well as one or more Xvnc instances. I don't know how to have a single instance of

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:23:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. I'm working on that file right now. :-)

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-02 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many MA deals. MS will be able to successfully argue that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: 1) the share of search of the combined companies does not equal that of it's competitor, Google (source:

Re: soup or man (was: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?)

2008-02-02 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310059.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310060.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310061.vhtml Sophomoric

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-02 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Brett Glass wrote: At 07:19 PM 2/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many MA deals. MS will be able to successfully argue that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: 1) the share of search of the combined companies does not equal that

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should be done by default IMO. Used to be until the religious maniacs started going on about devil worship and other such nonsense. No, it was removed because it was butt-ugly. ASCII art stopped being cool twenty years ago. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav -

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:28:48AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should be done by default IMO. Used to be until the religious maniacs started going on about devil worship and other such nonsense. No, it was removed because it was butt-ugly. ASCII

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-02 04:37, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD 20 years of Berkeley UNIX with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX history buff. sounds like a

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:13:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2008-02-03 01:01, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:28:48AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should be done by default IMO. Used to be until the religious