<< BACK TO RS001 LOG Setting hostname: ursam. Starting network: lo0 wh0. lo0: flags=1008049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 18634 options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> inet 127.0.0.1 netmas 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 groups: lo nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> wh0 flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4e524bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLANHWC_SUM,LRO, WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG,FTL,MU LTIVERSE> wormh 12:0f:bb:23:f0:50 inet6 f080::400f:cfff:fe00:f565%wh0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 media: IEEEEE FF8A.A0 Wormhole Crossgalactical autoselect status: no carrier nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> Starting devd. Enabling pf. Clearing /tmp. Updating motd:. Starting syslogd. No core dumps found. Starting dnsmasq Starting dbus. Starting ntpd. Mounting late filesystems:. Starting local daemons:. Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. Starting sshd. Starting cron. Starting satnav. Performing sanity check on ftld configuration. Starting ftld. ------ +==================================+ // \\ || || || || || || || || || _...,----;;""''----,..._ || || ,-'' .v8' ####88# ,;'-, || ||,' .n##88 , **## ,nn88##88',|| \\ #####8888^' ,vU&^88##8888// +==================================+ +==================================+ // \\ || ___ || || ,-'-= '-, || || ; "_, ,-==; || || | (# ## #| || || ; ) # ; || || '--___--' || || || \\ // +==================================+ +==================================+ // \\ || || || || || || || o || || || || || || || \\ // +==================================+ starm ------ Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. FreeBSD/sfr (ursam) on qty0 login: starm Password: Login incorrect login: starm Password: Last login: UMa-ZETA-CT A01A 0310 0B14 FreeBSD 3C15.0-RELEASE-p4 GENERIC Welcome to FreeBSD! Release Notes, Errata: gopher://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/ Security Advisories: gopher://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ FreeBSD Handbook: gopher://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ FreeBSD FAQ: gopher://www.FreeBSD.org/faq/ Questions List: gopher://www.FreeBSD.org/lists/questions/ FreeBSD Forums: gopher://forums.FreeBSD.org/ Documents installed with the system are in the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/ directory, or can be installed later with: pkg install en-freebsd-doc For other languages, replace "en" with a language code like de or fr. Show the version of FreeBSD installed: freebsd-version ; uname -a Please include that output and any error messages when posting questions. Introduction to manual pages: man man FreeBSD directory layout: man hier To change this login announcement, see motd(5). ________________________________________ / After a time, you may find that having \ | is not so pleasing a thing, after all, | | as wanting. It is not logical, but it | | is often true. | | | \ -- Spock, Amok Time, stardate 3372.7 / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || You have mail. starm@ursam:~ % ------ >> CAPTAIN STARM REPORTING >> STARDATE: UMA-ZETA-CT A01A 0311 0520 >> SHIP ID: BABY-BEAR >> SHIP SELF-DIAGNOSTICS >> ALL SYSTEMS ONLINE >> HULL [=================== ] 95% >> ENGINES [================= ] 85% >> FUEL [======== ] 40% >> SHIELDS [================== ] 90% >> HORS D'OUVRES[=========== ] 55% >> CAPS LOCK [====================] STUCK ON >> TRANSMISSION BEGIN CAPTAIN STARM, MISSION - WHY IS MY CAPS LOCK ON. captain starm, mission report. a short series of misfires: what more skeptical cosmonauts might call "failure to adhere to mission protocol," we aboard baby bear call "character" and "sense of adventure." my co-captain and i had originally agreed to make a quick stop in orbit around alioth. there's a bit of an old haunt of ours there, a little games diner at L4. get an overpriced coffee and play a little bit of settlers. it's a good little sunday-drive distance for the aux-ships too -- we haven't taken em out in a quarter of an orbit and it's just a nice way to stretch your legs when you've been a bit holed up. our first misfire is my co-captain miscalibrated the SusAn and we overslept -- i sound like i'm blaming her but i always put it on her to calibrate it just because i hate doing it, so i don't really have a right to complain about any hiccups there. i kind of hummed and hawwed a little about aborting the mission entirely, but i had a bit of a brainwave -- some might call it "fudging success quotas by rewriting the mission objective" but i am a glass-half-full type of person and prefer to spin it as "creative license" and "saving the mission." we overshot and ended up at mizar, but why not take the aux-ships out anyway for a bit of a shorter ride, hit up a restaurant and go for a bit of a picnic? i got a craving for gamma lobster, and the best damn sandwich shop in the asterism is in geosynchronous orbit around alcor Ad. lo and behold, our second misfire: the place is closed for hull upgrades, and no other lobster shops are open nearby. whatever, there's a shawarma place in just about every other system in this cluster, and the one we go to actually has manibeast meat. hell yea the crystalline bismuth shores of alcor Ad give the alien impression of a totally inhospitable planet -- these stories you hear of diamond rain and methane oceans, surface temperatures of 90K to 740K, crushing sulfurous atmospheres or nothing but the thin seasonal offgassing of ethanol ice at the poles. but no, that's a water ocean -- the blood-red colour is what, to my understanding, could best be described as the silicon-based equivalent of an algal mat, and is the only life native to this star system. and the atmosphere is surprisingly breathable, if a bit nitrous. i don't think you'd wanna be breathing it in every day, but nobody's here every day anyway -- it's picnickable, not liveable. it's cold here, 270 K cold in the sweltering heat of its "summer" -- the yearly temperature fluctuations here are driven less by axial tilt and moreso by its unusually elliptical orbit. the surface will plunge to about 100 K at its low. but that picnickable-not-liveable range is a bit of a sweet spot to me, it's not every day one gets a planet all to themself. and seeing the light reflect along that irridescent beach, it strikes me as perfectly fitting that you should be the only person on this world with me (if only for a lunch), and that the cold is rather the type of misfire i'd rather endure with you. ------ . . . . . ,"-, ____..._-'___'__,'.______..,---,,,.-,_.,--.--'"";____ __ ` _ __ _ _ . ` . ` . ., ` . 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