On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Tony White <tony.mzungu@gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting paradox:

If everyone has 2 parents, and each parent has 2 parents, then everone
has 4 grandparents - and by extension, 8 great-grandparents, 16
great-great-grandparents, 32 great-great-great-grandparents, - and if
one 'generation' is 30 years, that means that only 300 years ago,
everyone had 2^10 ancestors (1024) - so

***why wasn't the population 300 years ago 6 TRILLION***

(or mebbe /srv/god has already implemented /dev/null??)

Tony

2009/5/4 Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com>:

> .....and shield them properly from broadcast storms
>
> On 5/4/09, MotoBaridi <motobaridi@motobaridi.com> wrote:
>> how about some arid wasteland for the server farms?
>> just splash all the shiny solar arrays you can afford all over the
>> land and you've just powered not only the servers, but also the
>> cooling systems.......
>>
>> o_O
>> ------------------------------
>> <MotoBaridi, incoherently mumbling to self since 1981>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>> On 5/4/09, Michael Kamunge <forlogins@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Arable land for SERVER FARMS!! <thumbs up!>
>>> :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:53 PM, MotoBaridi
>>> <motobaridi@motobaridi.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> "....arable land"
>>>> and what exactly is a *nix nerd going to need arable land for?
>>>>
>>>> </nerdy_curiousity>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> <MotoBaridi, incoherently mumbling to self since 1981>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/4/09, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > sudo tail /dev/earth > /dev/null would clear the earth of the youngest
>>>> > dude/ettes first! your (good) intention however, is to clear the earth
>>>> > of
>>>> > the oldest (in keeping with the "first-in-first-out" principle) "until
>>>> every
>>>> > remaining person can afford some decent acreage of arable land".
>>>> > ama?
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Simon Mbuthia
>>>> > <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> First of all, this operation should only be carried out by members in
>>>> the
>>>> >> sudoers list;
>>>> >> And old peeps should be gotten rid of, assuming /dev/earth is a kind
>>>> >> of
>>>> >> stack structure... So here's my suggestion:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> sudo tail /dev/earth > /dev/null
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Above operation may be repeated until /dev/earth has enough space to
>>>> bring
>>>> >> land prices down :-)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Me.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 2009/5/4 Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> cat /dev/null>/dev/earth
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On 5/4/09, Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com>
>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >> Just got this of the NANOG list, couldn't resist the temptation to
>>>> >>> >> share....
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> /dev/earth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can.
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > cp /dev/null /dev/earth
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Simple, right? It becomes empty in a split second:)
>>>> >>> > Perhaps you need chflags noschg /dev/earth first, as it might be
>>>> having
>>>> >>> the
>>>> >>> > immutable bit set?
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > --
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