From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 29 09:59:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA14263 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from logic.it (mod1.logic.it [195.120.151.17] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA14221 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1065 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Aug 1997 16:52:29 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:52:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni X-Sender: molter@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it To: "M. L. Dodson" cc: fbsdlist@federation.addy.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Satanic logo In-Reply-To: <199708291415.JAA15152@beowulf.utmb.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [moved to -chat. As often happens with FreeBSDers, discussion gets really interesting ;-)] On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, M. L. Dodson wrote: [..] > > I do love our daemon, Chuck. My ****big**** dream is that > > someone will draw a sexy "daemonette" too ;-) > > > > From chapter 31 of the "Unix System Administration Handbook" by > > Nemeth (a very good book) : > > > > The words "daemon" and "demon" both come from the same root, > > but "daemon" is an older form and its meaning is somewhat > > different. A daemon is an attendant spirit that influences > > one's character or personality. Daemons aren't minions of > > good or evil; they are creatures od independent thought and > > will. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both > > daemons and demons. > > > > It is also likely to have some relationship to Maxwell's demon > (daemon?), methinks. Yea, surely! I forgot it! ;-) And, I'll bet on it, it's a daemon, not a demon ;-). We in Italy have the same distinction between daemon/demon, but the word is the same: "demone". The difference is in where you put the accent. > This is the guy who monitors the shuttered hole between two gas > vessels, opening it when a hot molecule approaches from the left > vessel and closing it when a hot molecule approaches from the > right (or vice versa). Net is a temperature difference which can > be used to run a heat engine => perpetual motion. (Don't worry; > Leo Szilard used information theory to prove that it takes more > energy to run the demon than you get out. Second law is safe.) I don't worry at all, since I do love daemons ;-) Also, it should be nice a party with daemons, daemonettes, witches and fairies ;-) As you surely know, whitches were *beautiful* women, it was the christian religion, to fight the pagan one, which said witches were horribles and evil creatures. (Please no flames about religions here. I don't want to offend anyone.) Marco