On 4/2/07, Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Peter St. John wrote: > The one node refusing to send the doc, and the other note receiving it > anyway, cracked me the *** up! Thanks > > P.S. the Google April Fool's actually got me thinking (network via > plumbing). Water conducts acoustics real well. So a free peer-to-peer > network within a city, or some counties, would be easy and require no new > infrastructure. I imagine the bandwidth would be weak and certainly there'd > be a problem getting between cities, but I don't think the water and sewer > utiltiies claim rights to the acoustic bandwidth (unlike hijacking phone > lines with stuff that would interfere with existing telephony) so all free. Are you seriously suggesting that people should deliberately adopt a shitty network? (:-o> rgb
Ah, it was just a pipe-dream. Among beowulf-gurus Robert you remain on the throne! (B-{|} (glasses with goatee) Peter
> On 4/1/07, Douglas Eadline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> I just posted some interesting news on Cluster Monkey. >> >> http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/192/1/ >> >> >> -- >> Doug >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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