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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install? Date: 12 May 1995 07:05:14 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3ov1ba$93e@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3o4lp2$b2i@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3orbtt$su9@passion.nosc.mil> <3ottl6$l7@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3ottl6$l7@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >One major point: Have you both tried the most recent snap? It's >impossible to magically make fixed bits appear on a CDROM. Even >if Jordan had a laser and your missle coordinates, I think >atmospheric distortion would foil him (Jordan can't afford to buy >adaptive optics). Hah! This is an outmoded, wooden (lowell) defense strategy! Who needs adaptive optics when you can simply pop off a one-shot X ray nuke from orbit, right down the desired trajectory to the user's location - who needs accurate when you can have brute force? You just want to ionize a nice wide tube of atmosphere for a 10 millisecond window or so, during which you bounce the message beam down the same trajectory off of another mirrored laser transponder in medium orbit from a fixed source further out (and out of the way of that little nuke you just kicked off). You can use the interval to scribble on the user (and his CD) at lower power, right down that nice little ionized port. Child's play, really. Just takes a little tight syncronization and the right resources in orbit.. :-) Jordan