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author | Ed Maste <[email protected]> | 2025-05-22 17:46:40 +0000 |
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committer | Ed Maste <[email protected]> | 2025-05-22 18:04:23 +0000 |
commit | 80103fa629c629babbe538a2daa6b0eebe36011c (patch) | |
tree | cf121d4f78030ac59cbf470cf1b7e30048651c72 | |
parent | acf7b2ba5e0d7059dd5aea489e8b626ad5e52e60 (diff) |
FAQ: Remove "The FreeBSD Funnies"
Without comment on the humour value of these entries they seem most
suited to confusing new users and are not appropriate Frequently Asked
Questions.
Reviewed by: carlavilla
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50469
-rw-r--r-- | documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc | 31 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc index cf86d99133..7ca37afd5b 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/books/faq/_index.adoc @@ -532,37 +532,6 @@ Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inv The longer and complete answer is that after a very long argument about whether man:sleep[1] should take fractional second arguments, {phk} posted a long message entitled link:http://www.bikeshed.com[A bike shed (any color will do) on greener grass...]. -[[funnies]] -== The FreeBSD Funnies - -Take a break from technicalities and dive into the playful side of FreeBSD. - -[[very-very-cool]] -=== How cool is FreeBSD? - -[qanda] -Has anyone done any temperature testing while running FreeBSD?:: -No, but we have done numerous taste tests on blindfolded volunteers who have also had 250 micrograms of LSD-25 administered beforehand. -35% of the volunteers said that FreeBSD tasted sort of orange, whereas GNU/Linux(R) tasted like purple haze. -Neither group mentioned any significant variances in temperature. - -Seriously, FreeBSD uses ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), therefore FreeBSD can put the CPU into low power mode. - -[[dev-null]] -=== Where does data written to /dev/null go? - -It goes into a special data sink in the CPU where it is converted to heat which is vented through the heatsink / fan assembly. -This is why CPU cooling is increasingly important; as people get used to faster processors, they become careless with their data and more and more of it ends up in [.filename]#/dev/null#, overheating their CPUs. - -If you delete [.filename]#/dev/null# (which effectively disables the CPU data sink) your CPU may run cooler but your system will quickly become constipated with all that excess data and start to behave erratically. - -If you have a fast network connection you can cool down your CPU by reading data out of [.filename]#/dev/random# and sending it off somewhere; however you run the risk of overheating your network connection and [.filename]#/# or angering your ISP, as most of the data will end up getting converted to heat by their equipment, but they generally have good cooling, so if you do not overdo it you should be OK. - -[[punk-my-friend]] -=== My colleague sits at the computer too much, how can I prank them? - -Install package:games/sl[] and wait for they to mistype `sl` for `ls`. - [[acknowledgments]] == Acknowledgments |