From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 2 9:39:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B93B37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a227.otenet.gr [212.205.215.227]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fA2Hdj205184; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:39:45 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA2FiNL31842; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:44:24 GMT (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:44:23 +0000 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <20011102154423.B31265@hades.hell.gr> References: <3BE08283.EC81A8ED@math.missouri.edu> <20011031170629.C865-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20011101214720.G4360@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011101214720.G4360@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:47:20PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Lamont Granquist wrote: > > Contribute to the Heat Death of the Universe! pipe everything to /dev/null! > > Actually, though it may be counter-intuituve, the best way to add to > hasten the Heat Death is to _save_ data. It takes work (in the > thermodynamic sense) to save data (to disk, to memory, or to even to > your brain). The efficiency of getting the work done is where the > entropy is seriously increased. Then, my local CVS mirror of FreeBSD sources, kept in sync over a slow modem connection (that's where inefficiency jumps in) is actually my small contribution to the effort to destroy the Universe! Hurray!!! -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message