Panther on a Yikes

lavode at comcast.net lavode at comcast.net
Mon Dec 29 09:43:31 PST 2003


Hi all,

I received Panther for Christmas, and am wondering if it is stable yet.  I have:

Yikes!/400
304mb RAM
16mb ATI Video

TIA,
-Lavode
> At 06:33 -0500 12/29/03, sr ferenczy wrote:
> >The distance from Stanford to Boston is 4320km.
> >So: the hardware of the Internet can currently achieve within a factor of two 
> of the speed of light.
> >make any sense?
> 
> Sure does, but you missed a revealing extra credit question:
> 
> At 2 Mb / sec how many bits are in transit between Stanford and Boston?
> 
> At 00:32 -0500 12/29/03, James Asherman wrote:
> >I know I get the k's and the M's and the capitals mixed up.
> 
> And it's more and more important these days to keep them straight. There are a 
> bunch of poker liars in the disk storage world and what was consistent metric 
> usage in 1950 is a mess in the computer world which, of all disciplines, ought 
> to know better:
> 
> <http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html>
> <http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>
> 
> 
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