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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mini PCs
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:47:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b0da9ef49531cfadbbfbe0de722db79@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120612051359.GB17382@intma.in>

On Tue Jun 12 01:14:34 EDT 2012, khm-9@intma.in wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:08:38AM -0400, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> > "failure of vision"
> >
>
> I think a sunken ship and an unidentified attack vessel are about as
> much use to a man stranded on a tiny island as high-throughput wired
> networking is to low-power compute devices.

the man says there's nothing to see here.  he does not say, there's nothing
useful here.

if you look back at the history of plan 9, they didn't say, "how could we possibly
use this slow worm storage," they figured out inovative ways to use it.

i'd aspire to be like that.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-12  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-10 22:19 Comeau At9Fans
2012-06-11 14:03 ` Richard Miller
2012-06-11 15:25   ` Matthew Veety
     [not found]   ` <CA+4OWrw2gHmepYVWCPXFihFKOo4Eqew8_j1VnTCp+UQYON14DQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-11 15:46     ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-15 18:38       ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-08-07 16:32   ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-06-11 16:08 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-12  6:41   ` rod
2012-06-15 18:41   ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-06-11 20:14 ` Winston Weinert
2012-06-11 21:07   ` John Floren
2012-06-11 21:15     ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2012-06-12  4:38       ` Nick LaForge
2012-06-12  4:49         ` John Floren
2012-06-12  5:05           ` Nick LaForge
2012-06-12  5:12             ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12 12:47               ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-06-12 13:48                 ` David Leimbach
2012-06-12 14:01                   ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-06-14 16:38                 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-06-15 18:51               ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-06-12 13:29             ` hiro
2012-06-12 13:41               ` hiro
2012-06-13  5:37               ` Harri Haataja
2012-06-15 18:50             ` Comeau At9Fans
     [not found]       ` <CAEE9J-VkH0n4D5XdjhTQz2+m+j6gvbF12LKm66ezGR3Xb4SBfA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-12  4:51         ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12  4:56           ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12  5:08             ` Charles Forsyth
2012-06-12  5:13               ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12  5:47                 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-06-12 12:25                   ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12 14:03                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12 17:26                   ` Bakul Shah
2012-06-12 18:35                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12 13:20           ` Wes Kussmaul
2012-06-14 10:25             ` Yaroslav
2012-06-12  8:49       ` Richard Miller
2012-06-15 18:45     ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-08-06 11:03 ` crazyespia
2012-08-06 14:01   ` Comeau At9Fans

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