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Going back to the debate on Daemon (older form of demon), as I recall, the reason why these are called daemons (or ghosts) as because these processes are not tied to any PHYSICAL terminal (or body), hence the term ghost or daemons. -- Kelsey Hartigan Go Registered Linux user #5998 __

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Daniel Escasa wrote: > software. *Has* anyone had any software, especially software we might > consider mainstream, that you've had to build from source? Any > problems compiling? Sure, I've had my share of building otherwise packaged software. Perl, Ruby, Nginx,

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Daniel Escasa wrote: > Ehem. Going back to the blog post, one of the commenters there claimed > he loved Linux but cited the need to compile software that's not in > the repo, then the source doesn't compile. He also mentioned some > hardware issues, but those are not relevant because Fr Stephen's

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Ehem. Going back to the blog post, one of the commenters there claimed he loved Linux but cited the need to compile software that's not in the repo, then the source doesn't compile. He also mentioned some hardware issues, but those are not relevant because Fr Stephen's running Ubuntu on a Mac. I th

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > if i understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology) correctly > > daemon (latin for daimon) used to mean a good or bad spirit in greek > then Plato and Xenocrates started to associate it with evil (~400BC) > then when the S

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Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > if i understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology) > correctly > > daemon (latin for daimon) used to mean a good or bad spirit in greek > then Plato and Xenocrates started to associate it with evil (~4

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if i understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology) correctly daemon (latin for daimon) used to mean a good or bad spirit in greek then Plato and Xenocrates started to associate it with evil (~400BC) then when the Septuagint was translated to Greek they used daimon for evil spirits and

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Zak B. Elep wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba > wrote: >> but why maintain an evil-associated name for a good software? >> and why do we have to explain these historical excuses to all our students >> in operating systems every semest

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > anyway what's the background history of naming servers that way? > fred i cut and paste for your understanding: :-> In the context of UNIX® systems, daemons are process that run in the background attending to various tasks without

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > but why maintain an evil-associated name for a good software? > and why do we have to explain these historical excuses to all our students > in operating systems every semester? I think its actually easier to remember the term `daemo

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Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera > wrote: > > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera > mailto:eij...@gmail.com> > >

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera > wrote: >> >> Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera > > > wrote: >> > >> >> Majority of the terms and name

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera > > wrote: > > > > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > > just wait till he discovers how many daemons there are in his > >

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Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera > wrote: > > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > just wait till he discovers how many daemons there are in his > system, hehe > > > > hope the non-satanic developers start ren

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > > just wait till he discovers how many daemons there are in his system, > hehe > > > > hope the non-satanic developers start renaming their software from > > 'daemons' to 'servers' like apache and postgresql

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Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > just wait till he discovers how many daemons there are in his system, hehe > > hope the non-satanic developers start renaming their software from > 'daemons' to 'servers' like apache and postgresql > > They have been retained that way lest we forget our roots... :-)

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just wait till he discovers how many daemons there are in his system, hehe hope the non-satanic developers start renaming their software from 'daemons' to 'servers' like apache and postgresql On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Silverlokk wrote: > FYI, the author is a priest of the Sacred Heart C

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FYI, the author is a priest of the Sacred Heart Congregation. Sent to you by Silverlokk via Google Reader: Linux Helps Me Live a Stress-Free Life via Fr. Stephen Cuyos, MSC by Fr. Stephen, MSC on 11/9/09 Most of my day is spent in front of the computer. Thus a perfectly functioning machine is