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unusual facts about Daemon



Architecture of Windows NT

This is distinct from the concept of a "service process", which is a user mode component somewhat analogous to a daemon in Unix-like operating systems.

BSD Daemon

The BSD daemon was first drawn in 1976 by comic artist Phil Foglio.

The later, more popular versions of the BSD daemon were drawn by animation director John Lasseter beginning with an early greyscale drawing on the cover of the Unix System Manager's Manual published in 1984 by USENIX for 4.2BSD.

The copyright of the official BSD daemon images is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick (a very early BSD developer who worked with Bill Joy).

Caverns of Xaskazien

It is a rogue-like roleplaying video game (RPG) in which the player is tasked with descending to the 30th level of a dungeon to defeat the arch-daemon Xaskazien.

Collectd

collectd uses a modular design: The daemon itself only implements infrastructure for filtering and relaying data as well as auxiliary functions and requires very few resources, it even runs on OpenWrt-powered embedded devices.

D. Wayne Mitchell

Selected performances include Edgar Allan Poe in The Death of Edgar Allan Poe (2010), Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad (2009), George in The Daemon of Darby Castle (2009), Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (2008), B7 in The Head That Wouldn't Die (2007), Estragon in Waiting for Godot (2003), and originating the role of The Abbot in The Witch of Greythorn.

Daemon Records

Artists who have released albums with Daemon Records include Amy Ray herself, Rose Polenzani, Danielle Howle, Nineteen Forty-Five, Girlyman, New Mongrels, Magnapop, David Rovics and spoken word duo Athens Boys Choir.

Ernest Hilgard

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus wrote: God has placed at every man’s side a guardian, the Daemon of each man, who is charged to watch over him; a Daemon that cannot sleep, nor be deceived.

But God is there, and your Daemon is there (Epictetus, 1998/2nd century, 14:11) The belief was that the Daemon had foreknowledge of future circumstances and events and as such could warn its Eidolon of the dangers.

Linux range of use

Components of the Linux kernel, such as Netfilter or the Linux network scheduler, in conjunction with the available free and open-source routing daemons BIRD, B.A.T.M.A.N., Quagga and XORP fulfill the task very well.

Network-attached storage

They run Samba (an SMB daemon), NFS daemon, and FTP daemons which are freely available for those operating systems.

Pat Badger

He is also a former member of Daemon, In The Pink, Super Trans Atlantic, and Tribe of Judah.

Stalisfield Green

The pub serves only Kentish beers from its traditional hand pumps; regularly featuring ales from Hop Daemon (Newnham), Gadds (Ramsgate) and Goachers (Maidstone).

The Abashiri Family

Kikunosuke appears in the Mazinger Angels manga as the pilot for Iron Z (which is in fact a new name for Energer Z, the Mazinger Z prototype.) As well as traditional Mazinger and Grendizer characters Sayaka Yumi, Grace Maria Fleed, Hikaru Makiba and Jun Hono as they fight Dr. Hell's forces and the Vegan Empire, respectively; Daemon also appears under his Hayami Danbei alias in Grendizer.

The Bull's Hour

The name of the novel deriving from an old (1909) Chinese-Russian dictionary (quoting the phrase "Earth is born in the Bull's hour (or Daemon's hour, 2:00 am)").

The Twilight Reign

They were conquered when a daemon summoned by Kastan Styrax possessed their Krann and drove off their Lord.

Wendy Repass

Eddie from Ohio, Anton Chenko, producer of Suzanne Vega's "Solitude Standing", Daemon recording artist Kristen Hall, The Marshall Tucker Band, Indigo Girls, and Matthew Sweet, Dave Matthews Band, former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove, John McCutcheon, producer Kevin McNoldy, drummer Stuart Gunter of Clare Quilty, bass by Andy Waldeck of Earth to Andy and violin by former National Symphony Orchestra member Ann Marie Simpson.


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