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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: OT: The Admin Avatar |
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As I've unfortunately had to visit a few times over the last couple of days it occurs to me that I've never explained what my avatar is. As a lot of guys choose their avatar to represent some aspect of themself it's probably worth pointing out that I'm not a closet satanist.
The little guy in the picture is a deamon known as Chucky. He is the mascot of the FreeBSD organisation which produces the Unix operating system that runs the server that the board runs on.
Traditionally a daemon is defined as
| Quote: | daemon \D[ae]"mon\, n.
1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daimon]
2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: demigod] |
It's pronounced day-mon just like the title of the Ferengie (sp) commanders in the Star Trek series.
The definition used by the Unix guys is
| Quote: | <operating system> /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological meaning, later rationalised as the acronym "Disk And Execution MONitor")
A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon). |
I think the "A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur" kind of sums up a discussion board administrator quite well.
Just in case you were wondering
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