Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:40:40 -0500 From: Rick Pettit <rpettit@vailsys.com> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day? Message-ID: <20050510184040.GA23156@vailsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20050510181837.1B8A14BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050510181837.1B8A14BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:18:36PM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > > > We can't just forget about it and pray for it to go away. > > > > > > This is an aesthetic violation to FreeBSD's professional image, > > > that is considered to be more important now than ever. > > > > There is no "aesthetic violation" to forget about or pray over. > > I like to appreciate. > And it's easier to appreciate something that is CORRECT. > > real memory = 100663296 (96 MB) > avail memory = 93036544 (88 MB) > > Looks like it's been written by some Linux geek. > > Real memory = 100663296 (96 MB) > Available memory = 93036544 (88 MB) > > Doesn't. > > > As you suggested, I compared these with diff, ignoring the gratuitous > > spacing modification using "diff -b". > > > > In the end, I don't think I can consider even one of your changes to > > be an improvement. The closest you came to a useful change was the > > capitalisation of "Real memory", but that's hardly necessary, and > > the accompanying change to the next line upsets the formatting. > > Ofcourse it doesn't improve the functionality. > And I get the feeling that's what you're all about. > > > In short, I think you should find some other way to pretty up your FreeBSD > > boot. As suggested earlier, try "man splash". > > Again, I want it to look correct. Time to fork your own project - from the postings I have seen from you on various BSD lists you are going in a direction all your own. -Rick
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