[Novalug] OT: Used Veg Oil

Unknown User unknown.usr@gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 22:19:39 EDT 2010


Sounds like my roommate with her carputer projects.  She spends half the
time whining about bluetooth stacks and the other half looking for dual
battery configurations.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Mark Smith <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:

> that reminds me (distatnly) of vint cerf's presentation on the
> intraplanetary internet he did at novalug a few years ago now.
>
> some protocols aren't very effective across long distances
> with long response times.  think TCP handshake.
>
> doing TCP via station wagon as layer one wouldn't work so well,
> but it would certainly be entertaining to the right sort of geek.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:24:10PM -0400, Ed James wrote:
> > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of
> > flashdrives hurtling down the highway."
> >
> > Ed James
> >
> > Quoting "James Ewing Cottrell 3rd" <JECottrell3@Comcast.NET>:
> >
> > > That was a joke, or a reference to several jokes.
> > >
> > > Back in the Day, certain Joke RFC's were issued on April 1. One was a
> > > discussion of IP Datagrams over Avian Carriers.
> > >
> > > And sometime in the 80s, some company seriously considered carrying IP
> > > via Manned Flight, possibly even Hot Air Balloon. Of course, THEY could
> > > have been joking, or scamming, but we certainly had a laugh.
>
> --
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> mark@tux.org
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