From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:22:18 -0600 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) In-Reply-To: <48949d907a41c68435d71c344df65d01@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7bb5b23c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 14 May 2004, Sape Mullender wrote: > Great. The my-blackout's-bigger-than-yours discussion! > true story: when i was a kid growing up in a well known eastern bloc country we had electricity shortages in the winter. our government had made contracts for exporting electricity from the nuclear power plant to turkey and greece, and during the winter months, when power consumption peaked, there simply wasn't enough to go around locally. we had electricity for 3 hours, then 3 hours blackout, repeat. they 'd turn it on in one part of the city and turn it off somewhere else. that was all government mandated! next winter it was 1:3 -- 1 hour blackout, three hours with electricity. this continued for three-four years -- every winter the country looked like a diskotheque. andrey ps: relevance? what relevance?