[SWLUG] linux newbie

[Ian Hill]

On 9/6/05, Steve Anderson <steve at twindx.com> wrote:
> 
> Glenn Booth wrote:
> 
> > It means enough that I passed on a major CPU upgrade to buy
> > a better coffee machine.
> 
> I saw this a while ago: http://www.exaflop.org/docs/x86still/
> Someone used an old 233MHz K6 to distill rum, using the heat from the
> processor to vapourise cheap rum, and the fan assembly to cool it, and
> pummeled the processor to get it nice and hot.
> 
> IIRC Espresso machines involve making a whole load of steam. I can see a
> two bird, one stone situation forming here! You could get a nice strong
> coffee and generate some MD5 hashes at the same time...
> 
> > Too true. Personally, I don't do tea. There's no HOWTO for a start,
> > so I don't know how to make it.
> 
> I Googled for one earlier today.
> 
> http://home.fazekas.hu/~nagydani/rth/Russian-tea-HOWTO-v2.html
> 
> It's a little exotic though. Seeing as it's GPLed I might have to use it
> as a basis for a more Western distro...
> 
> Steve
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Sent this to Glenn yesterday, but screwed up posting it to the list...


Perhaps this...

http://ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk/papers/AI/L.Gillam/bs_tea.pdf 
<http://ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk/papers/AI/L.Gillam/bs_tea.pdf>

British Standard 6008 Cup Of Tea

Or, if you prefer the American style...

http:// catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/ <http://catb.org/%7Eesr/jargon/html/>
I/ISO-standard-*cup*-of-*tea* .html
for the ISO standard 

:-)


Ian
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