On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:47:42 +0200, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I once made a kernel patch, which printed a "." for every line that would have been printed. > This gives you a nice feedback, that your machine actually is doing s.th. So in a fine grained kernel bootup verbosity world perhaps we should have a few more modes: school-library-silent : Absolutely no talking from the kernel or it goes to detention juggling-penquin-ascii-animated-statusbar: Far far better than just silly little "."'s just-tell-me-what-I-think-is-worth-a-text-notice: Something close to the current quiet mode, using mindreading technology that I have patented to give a modicum of textual scroll based on what the user "thinks" is worth reporting. graphical: yawn, boring subliminal: why ruin the pretty graphical bootup with text I can actively read. sublimal messaging will be far more effective and far less instrusive on the eye. peepd: translate all textual or graphical information about statup into a soundscape... too bad the netpeep project appears to be dead. -jef"uses the go-get-coffee mode when he reboots his boxes"spaleta
