Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:44:23 +0000 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <20011102154423.B31265@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20011101214720.G4360@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <3BE08283.EC81A8ED@math.missouri.edu> <20011031170629.C865-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20011101214720.G4360@blossom.cjclark.org>
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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
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