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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] kernels
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:55:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7211386f564db0ef1cbe17a66877701@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38789.128.165.0.81.1142047896.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>

> I had all kinds of creative ways of disposing of these boards when they
> fried. My favorite was to take an 8" long piece of railroad rail I had
> (approx weight 25 lbs) and do a competition: if the L440GX+ was dropped on
> the rail, or the rail was dropped on the l440GX+, who won? Also, of
> course, angle of entry of the rail could be investigated, as could drop
> height, ... the possibilities were endless.

i took a similar approach with travelstars, latterly preemptively, but i'd got
nothing as classy as that for the test drops.

just a moment: was that the original inspiration for ruby on rails?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10 15:24 Russ Cox
2006-03-10 15:40 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-10 21:13   ` Sam Hopkins
2006-03-10 22:26   ` David Leimbach
2006-03-10 22:37     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-10 17:25 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 17:36   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-10 17:45     ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 18:37       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-10 19:12       ` jmk
2006-03-10 21:16         ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 21:28           ` Russ Cox
2006-03-10 21:31           ` jmk
2006-03-10 22:07             ` William Josephson
2006-03-10 22:18               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-10 22:56                 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-10 22:53                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-10 23:02                     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-11  2:04         ` geoff
2006-03-11  2:56           ` jmk
2006-03-11  3:14             ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-11  3:31               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-11  3:40                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-11  7:55                 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2006-03-11 15:53                 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-11 15:59                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-11  4:27               ` jmk
2006-03-11  5:40                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-11  3:08           ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 17:30 ` Tim Wiess
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-01  3:35 David Presotto

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