From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 1 18:29:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA05725 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 18:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05718 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 18:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (lot.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [203.20.121.21]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA26699 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 10:59:21 +0930 (CST) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00498; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 10:55:07 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709020125.KAA00498@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 17:58:21 +0930." <19970901175821.15741@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 10:55:06 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My wife just walked into my lair and saw a 4.4BSD-Lite CD-ROM on the > floor, and asked me what the daemon was chasing. I couldn't decide. > Does anybody have any ideas? It's them yellow Microsoft bastids with the large round backsides, eminently suited to tridenting. mike ps. Microsoft shouted me to go see Contact last night, which is funny because while I'm a "Sales Partner", I never volunteered for the job and have never sold any of their "product". All in all, not a bad movie. Particularly if you remove the bogus reductionist "religious" philosophy. However, about halfway through I realised that I had read the story it was based on *many* years ago. At the end of the movie, the credits claimed that it was based on the book of the same name by Carl Sagan (I clapped at the "for Carl" credit, but nobody else got it. Morons.), and that based on a story by Sagan and someone else. However, I expressly *don't* recall the original story I read as being written by him; does anyone remember the original, or have it on their shelf? There was a lot less religious bunkum, and (IIRC) *three* capsule travellers, not one.