On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 13:08:14 -0600 "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> There are a lot of IT facilities that I fantasize about having a grand > tour through with guides, and that's one of them. > > Even better would be to own a copy of one. <g> Go to your local hobby/used equipment shop with a few grand, buy about 20 old Pentium 2's, and build your own Beowulf cluster: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Beowulf-HOWTO.html Immediately afterward, phone your local police and explain that the sudden and alarming spike in your electricity bill is *not* because you are running a hydroponics grow op! > My dream (short term) though would be to build an Open Source only > Broadband ISP. See above. Depending on where you are, you could easily lease the lines from the local Phone Company. The cluster could easily handle millions of concurrent connections, and you'd have no shortage of enthusiastic "consultants", lemme assure you! > So totally biased and exclusionary that any browser > identifying itself as running on a certain corporation's OS would be > redirected immediately to the "Complaint Department." > > aka msn.com <g> > > Mac OSX users and 'nixers only need apply. (-; > > I know...I'm a sick bastard. Are you kidding? I'd be your 1st customer! And believe me, you'd have a lineup behind me a hundred miles long... And can you imagine when some poor soul calls for tech support, and you ask "what OS are you running?" "Uh, Windows..." "Sorry, we don't support that..." ROTFLMAO! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
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