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From: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install?
Date: 12 May 1995 13:24:30 GMT
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In article <3ov1ba$93e@agate.berkeley.edu>, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
)In article <3ottl6$l7@park.uvsc.edu>,
)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.. :-)
)
OK guys -- who upgraded him to Perl 5?
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