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

2008-02-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Philip Schulz wrote: Can you also make it accessible for the general public, e.g. through a patch against -CURRENT? Or is the code in P4 open for the public? I have no idea how the whole P4 business works, but I have always been under the impression that it is only available for a

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

2008-02-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:50:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2008-02-03 07:33, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

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

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

2008-02-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-03 07:33, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD mall, it's awesome, and Marshall is really funny too :) He is an amazing fellow and he certainly knows how to speak to an audience. Yes, he's a great guy, but his name is still Kirk... DES -- Dag-Erling

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: 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: 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: 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

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

2008-02-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
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. :-) Basically the name is kept for historical reasons. When the

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

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
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. :-) Basically the name is kept for historical

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

2008-02-01 Thread Allen
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +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: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced, the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly called

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

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
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 does things like this for historical reasons, I love reading

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

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:23:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! The options to enable it are: loader_logo=beastie loader_color=YES in /boot/loader.conf loader updated

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

2008-02-01 Thread Glenn Sieb
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 does things like this for historical

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

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
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 the correct spelling. man loader.conf will give you the hints

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

2008-02-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 01/02/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was reading a book on discrete math (they didn't require that in madison.. er.. it didn't exist) and i stumbled upon a problem that perked my ears http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310059.vhtml

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

2008-02-01 Thread spellberg_robert
i am learning not to top_post, albeit slowly. [ snip ] i was reading a book on discrete math (they didn't require that in madison.. er.. it didn't exist) and i stumbled upon a problem that perked my ears http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310059.vhtml