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
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