Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:01:35 +0100 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Message-ID: <42357D1F.9020508@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <20050313142855.I67860@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20050313104132.A5CA04BE6D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050313142855.I67860@maren.thelosingend.net>
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Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [...] > It's all about what connotation you put on the word. > > E.g. to make a file world read-writable you would type "chmod 666 file". Ah, but you are talking in octal! % perl -le 'print oct 666' 438 No evil here :) > Even though the number 666 is the number of the devil, the number itself > is not evil. Just as little as the command is evil, or someone who types > it. It's just a number. Put whatever meaning into it you like! Q.E.D. (my apologies for keeping such a silly thread alive) ObTopic: I think the OP was quite within his/her rights about wanting to disable the ASCII-art da?emon, yet wishing to continue to use FreeBSD. I find it pretty silly myself. I also note that FreeBSD understands 'tail -100 -F' and Linux (gnu fileutils?) doesn't. The devil is in the details, as it were. A chorus of "reformat your disk and use something else you lowlife moron without a sense of humour" does little to advance the cause. David
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