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

2008-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Frank Shute wrote: Keep the text as a monument to somebody's stupidity and a project gone awry... and the bloody sex toy. I suppose we should be thankful that the `sex toy' doesn't render well in ASCII art. Now that would be fun ... No need for ASCII art

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

2008-02-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No need for ASCII art ... ;-) What do you think about this screen shot? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png This is brilliant! Send patches! :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

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

2008-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Oliver Fromme writes: No need for ASCII art ... ;-) What do you think about this screen shot? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png This is brilliant! Send patches! :) Does that mean you're volunteering to be my mentor? :) The patches are

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

2008-02-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel splash code supports both BMP (courtesy of Mike Smith, IIRC) and PCX (courtesy of yours truly). I've written a number of PCX decoders over the years, BTW, and I remember that I once wrote a codec for a stripped-down version which

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

2008-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Oliver Fromme writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png This is brilliant! Send patches! :) Does that mean you're volunteering to be my mentor? :)

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

2008-02-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it can be done currently, but it would be possible to implement. I haven't looked at the syscons code in a long time, though. Right now my focus is on the loader. If you say the magic words (something like I'm willing to work on syscons