[Gllug] Delayed data feed

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On 13/01/11 18:50, David L Neil wrote:
> On 01/14/2011 03:48 AM, John Hearns wrote:
> ...
>> So I can do you a three second delay, using a high powered laser, a
>> telescope and a photodiode.
>> But you will have to tell your customers it will only work once in a full moon.
>
> I've heard some good ones in my time, but that idea is pure lunacy...


Tsk, I see what you did there!

Roger




>
> Speaking of which, the fate of Linux Conf Australia 
> (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/) scheduled for 24-29 January hangs in the 
> balance because of the horrendous flooding in Brisbane/QLD. The venue is 
> in doubt, also the ability of the city to accept such an influx of 
> people on top of everything else.
>
> The local committee plan to make a stop-go decision at the weekend. 
> However whilst the Queensland State planners were initially concerned 
> about a (slightly lower than feared) peak in the drainage flow 
> (yesterday), they are not focussing on another as a result of next 
> week's Spring tide.
>
> (ie the (full) moon and the sun will be in alignment - interestingly in 
> Australia's republican patois, a "Spring tide" is known as a "King tide").
>

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