Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > >

RE: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ I seem to recall you expressing appreciation for this sentiment. ;-) Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry >McAllister >Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:30 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: freeb

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:52 PM 9/28/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do th

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do this? (Sorry to all those beastie lovers out

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi All, This is really an interesting discussion. I actually appreciate it. But, it doesn't belong here. Start a list or forum somewhere and let us all know about it so those who would like to continue can without tieing up the FreeBSD questions list. jerry > > > taking the risk of star

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread albert fuller
> taking the risk of starting the 'ultimate-religion-flame-war' (please > not!)... ;) religion (of any > kind!) limits the scope of people's thoughts and makes them more easy to > manipulate, what patch is this, please tell me it name and location in ports, because I want to make sure its remove

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread Graham Bentley
I think on some early QNX you had a short series of dots then a static rotating display of | / -- \ | characters in that order (I hope you know what I mean) which showed that the kernel was loading devices etc However if you presed escape you could get the full output. This see

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Vizion
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:27, the author Josh Ockert contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Bye-bye beastie ...: >Kirk Strauser wrote: >> On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really &g

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't see any "progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think that the system is stalled. It's my understanding that somethi

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: But I think what may be a problem is that the normal? people don't see any "progress" or rather movement then. Which may lead them to think that the system is stalled. It's my understanding that something like a "progress" bar like WinXP

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
> Sincerely, > Someone of a religion that's none of your business who wants the > inter-religion bickering to end and for people to respect eachother's > beliefs and preferences taking the risk of starting the 'ultimate-religion-flame-war' (please not!)... ;) religion (of any kind!) limits the s

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:40:01 -0500 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get your point - truly, I do. I also get that Ted was being, well, > Ted. However, there *have* been people claiming that their Christian > sensibilities were offended by Beastie. you must be kidding ;) on the oth

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 21:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > >

RE: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Thompson, Jimi
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Jeays Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:23 PM To: Kevin Kinsey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > >As well as turning off the beastie

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:28, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > >As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > >dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > >GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > >

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mike Jeays wrote: As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text lo

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > >>Kirk Strauser wrote: > >> > >>>On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>> > Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > dying to have on there; > >>> > >>>You ow

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Cullen
Mike Jeays wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > >>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > >>dying to have on there; > >> > >> > > > >You owe me a new keyboard, prefera

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. I get your point - trul

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: > There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from > Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist > Christian Crusade. I get your point - truly, I do. I also get that Ted was being, well, Ted.

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread John Adams
-Original Message- From: Josh Ockert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. It was particularly funny to see it directed against someone whose e

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't underst

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Josh Ockert
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand wha

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really > dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about

RE: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; # diff beastie.4th beastie.4th.cross 75,93c75,93 < 2dup at-xy ." ,," 1+ < 2dup at-xy ." /()`" 1+ < 2dup at-xy ." \ \___ / |" 1+ <

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Clutton
> > Kiffin Gish wrote: > > > I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks > > more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie > > thingie on the side. Here is how to change it: http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/ . Also has links to already-correct-size imag

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-26 Thread Gregory Nou
Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do this? (Sorry to all those beastie lovers out there, but really) from the /boot/default/

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do this? (Sorry to all those beastie lovers out there, but really) Y