On 9/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Anderson</b> <<a href="mailto:steve@twindx.com">steve@twindx.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Glenn Booth wrote:<br><br>> It means enough that I passed on a major CPU upgrade to buy<br>> a better coffee machine.<br><br>I saw this a while ago: <a href="http://www.exaflop.org/docs/x86still/">http://www.exaflop.org/docs/x86still/
</a><br>Someone used an old 233MHz K6 to distill rum, using the heat from the<br>processor to vapourise cheap rum, and the fan assembly to cool it, and<br>pummeled the processor to get it nice and hot.<br><br>IIRC Espresso machines involve making a whole load of steam. I can see a
<br>two bird, one stone situation forming here! You could get a nice strong<br>coffee and generate some MD5 hashes at the same time...<br><br>> Too true. Personally, I don't do tea. There's no HOWTO for a start,<br>> so I don't know how to make it.
<br><br>I Googled for one earlier today.<br><br><a href="http://home.fazekas.hu/~nagydani/rth/Russian-tea-HOWTO-v2.html">http://home.fazekas.hu/~nagydani/rth/Russian-tea-HOWTO-v2.html</a><br><br>It's a little exotic though. Seeing as it's GPLed I might have to use it
<br>as a basis for a more Western distro...<br><br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>SWLUG Discussion List - <a href="mailto:Discuss@swlug.org.uk">Discuss@swlug.org.uk</a><br><a href="http://list.swlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/discuss">
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Sent this to Glenn yesterday, but screwed up posting it to the list...<br>
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Perhaps this...<br>
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http://<font size="-1"><font color="#008000"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk/papers/AI/L.Gillam/bs_tea.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk/papers/AI/L.Gillam/bs_tea.pdf
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British Standard 6008 Cup Of Tea<br>
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Or, if you prefer the American style...<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://</span><font size="-1"><font color="#008000"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://catb.org/%7Eesr/jargon/html/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I/ISO-standard-</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cup</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-of-</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tea</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">for the ISO standard </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:-)</span><br>
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Ian