Any Government project expands till it exceeds the budget. Therefore the deployment cost of a Linux project simply depends on the size of the available budget. If they budgeted for a total expenditure of $100, then it would have come in at less than $500 for all 1500 machines.
Who knows? Maybe centrifugal force will eventually destroy a black hole - something probably will eventually do them in, since the laws of physics as we know it probably doesn't apply inside a black hole. Stand by for another Big Bang...
AFAIK a black hole does emit light - from a boundary layer - and small black holes will eventually evaporate. My totally uninformed guess is that big black holes will eventually evaporate or explode too - it is doubtful that a black hole will just keep gobbling up stuff for all eternity, since eternity is just too long. Anyhoo, looking from a safe distance, a black hole is just a super massive star, for all practical purposes.
Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour,
The Crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red-handed showing feelings.
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Uhh, since the sun is so much bigger than the earth, your solar screen would do better the closer it is to earth. If you wish to deploy a screen close to the sun, it would have to be a-friggen-normous and would likely consume the total volume of several planets and still have little effect.
Yeah, but that is too simple. How the heck are you going to get a government grant for that? You need to study something spectacular, like global cooling, global warming, global dimming, global photo-chemical fog, global ozone depletion, global nuclear (sorry, nukulear) winter and so on, with equally impressive solutions to get funding on a massive scale. Deflating the whole issue by poring a few bags of fertilizer overboard a ship isn't spectacular. Even worse, just sinking an old rust bucket of a ship would probably have the same beneficial effect, but we certainly don't want to know about simple solutions like that.
Nice photos actually. Aircraft can make beautiful trails if the temperature of the air is cold enough and the sun angle is low, therefore most of the day in winter, and early morning / late evening in summer. The more efficient the aircraft engines become, the more water vapour they exhaust, which turns into ice needles, so modern aircraft make better trails than aircraft used to decades ago. This generally only happens high up in the stratosphere, or in very cold climes like Canada in winter. Going for a walk when the temperature is around minus 40 Celsius/Farenheit (same temp!) with blowing ice needles is not nice - they sting - but the glittering air is very beautiful.
Yup - I actually lived in the Middle East during that war. The smoke was visible thousands of miles away, but the darkening of the sky that was shown on CNN, generally was just the sun going down. It was quite funny actually to watch the difference between CNN propaganda and reality.
Well, in many norhtern places, the street lines and things are obscured by snow most of winter - the time when driving is the most dangerous and people cope with that. Removing all lines and things just extend that period to the rest of the year.
The only problem I see is that removing the lines and signs make it difficult for traffic cops to issue tickets, which is a major cash cow everywhere, so most cities won't do it, for that reason alone.
Nope, not quite:
"The driver does not allow accessing special files at Ext2 volumes, the access will be always denied. (Special files are sockets, soft links, block devices, character devices and pipes.)"
Hmm, I've been up to my knees in the 'tech shortage' for about 4 years. I don't think anybody will fall for that one again soon. An IT career is great if you like to do burger flipping for 3 years out of every 10.
Exactly - you should never read patents. Do your own thing and donate your code to the FSF. The only protection against patent lawsuits is charitable organization status. Nobody will sue a charity, since even if they would win the law suit, they cannot collect and the charity will simply close its doors and open again under another name. This is why all large software houses are running charities: IBM=Apache, Sun=OpenOffice, MIT=FSF, Berkeley=BSD and so on. The perpetual pledge of poverty is an excellent form of protection against law suits.
Also, most people don't buy a cell phone - they only buy a sim card (GSM) then use a phone belonging to the taxi driver. Cost is reduced by sharing - minivan shared taxis and shared cell phones go together.
Hmm, it would be more fun to store a rootkit on a printer - more memory than a PCi card, accessed by lots of machines and never scanned for malware, but implementing something like that is complex. Since Windoze has no shortage of simple exploits, that will remain the preferred method.
People have already wizened up to MP3 players. The popular ones don't have proprietary file formats, have a USB mass storage connection and a FM radio. Zune fails on all counts.
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Any Government project expands till it exceeds the budget. Therefore the deployment cost of a Linux project simply depends on the size of the available budget. If they budgeted for a total expenditure of $100, then it would have come in at less than $500 for all 1500 machines.
Hmm, lemmeseenow:
a. Insert Knoppix CD
b. Apply spot of super glue to drive door
c. Rinse and repeat 1499 times.
I think we got ourselves a winner.
Here you go:
1. Plug some HD cables
2. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1M
3. Long wait...
4. Plug some HD cables
5. Rinse and repeat 1499 times
You (and Birmingham) haven't ever heard of 'dd' I guess.
For a library system, once the servers are working, you only need to configure *one* PC, then replicate the disk n times. What is so hard with that?
Tah, dah:
# ngrep -q "user"
# ngrep -q "pass"
Who knows? Maybe centrifugal force will eventually destroy a black hole - something probably will eventually do them in, since the laws of physics as we know it probably doesn't apply inside a black hole. Stand by for another Big Bang...
AFAIK a black hole does emit light - from a boundary layer - and small black holes will eventually evaporate. My totally uninformed guess is that big black holes will eventually evaporate or explode too - it is doubtful that a black hole will just keep gobbling up stuff for all eternity, since eternity is just too long. Anyhoo, looking from a safe distance, a black hole is just a super massive star, for all practical purposes.
Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour, The Crown will plainly show, The prisoner who now stands before you, Was caught red-handed showing feelings. Showing feelings of an almost human nature. This will not do.
Well, it must be a Tube Worm then.
Uhh, since the sun is so much bigger than the earth, your solar screen would do better the closer it is to earth. If you wish to deploy a screen close to the sun, it would have to be a-friggen-normous and would likely consume the total volume of several planets and still have little effect.
Cool, asking the super powers for help would certainly be just as effective as any other suggestion.
Yeah, but that is too simple. How the heck are you going to get a government grant for that? You need to study something spectacular, like global cooling, global warming, global dimming, global photo-chemical fog, global ozone depletion, global nuclear (sorry, nukulear) winter and so on, with equally impressive solutions to get funding on a massive scale. Deflating the whole issue by poring a few bags of fertilizer overboard a ship isn't spectacular. Even worse, just sinking an old rust bucket of a ship would probably have the same beneficial effect, but we certainly don't want to know about simple solutions like that.
Nice photos actually. Aircraft can make beautiful trails if the temperature of the air is cold enough and the sun angle is low, therefore most of the day in winter, and early morning / late evening in summer. The more efficient the aircraft engines become, the more water vapour they exhaust, which turns into ice needles, so modern aircraft make better trails than aircraft used to decades ago. This generally only happens high up in the stratosphere, or in very cold climes like Canada in winter. Going for a walk when the temperature is around minus 40 Celsius/Farenheit (same temp!) with blowing ice needles is not nice - they sting - but the glittering air is very beautiful.
Yup - I actually lived in the Middle East during that war. The smoke was visible thousands of miles away, but the darkening of the sky that was shown on CNN, generally was just the sun going down. It was quite funny actually to watch the difference between CNN propaganda and reality.
How do you spread the particles? Easy - You just remove the particulate filters from the coal fired power station smoke stacks.
Well, in many norhtern places, the street lines and things are obscured by snow most of winter - the time when driving is the most dangerous and people cope with that. Removing all lines and things just extend that period to the rest of the year.
The only problem I see is that removing the lines and signs make it difficult for traffic cops to issue tickets, which is a major cash cow everywhere, so most cities won't do it, for that reason alone.
Nope, not quite: "The driver does not allow accessing special files at Ext2 volumes, the access will be always denied. (Special files are sockets, soft links, block devices, character devices and pipes.)"
Hmm, I've been up to my knees in the 'tech shortage' for about 4 years. I don't think anybody will fall for that one again soon. An IT career is great if you like to do burger flipping for 3 years out of every 10.
Well, unless someone would port Linux to it, in which case it will sell on Ebay like hot Cuecats...
Exactly - you should never read patents. Do your own thing and donate your code to the FSF. The only protection against patent lawsuits is charitable organization status. Nobody will sue a charity, since even if they would win the law suit, they cannot collect and the charity will simply close its doors and open again under another name. This is why all large software houses are running charities: IBM=Apache, Sun=OpenOffice, MIT=FSF, Berkeley=BSD and so on. The perpetual pledge of poverty is an excellent form of protection against law suits.
Also, most people don't buy a cell phone - they only buy a sim card (GSM) then use a phone belonging to the taxi driver. Cost is reduced by sharing - minivan shared taxis and shared cell phones go together.
No, no, at least we all know that canibals are living in Indonesia...
Hmm, it would be more fun to store a rootkit on a printer - more memory than a PCi card, accessed by lots of machines and never scanned for malware, but implementing something like that is complex. Since Windoze has no shortage of simple exploits, that will remain the preferred method.
People have already wizened up to MP3 players. The popular ones don't have proprietary file formats, have a USB mass storage connection and a FM radio. Zune fails on all counts.
talks like a nut case and flies like a nut case - it probably is a nut case...