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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.starnet.net!wupost!newspump.wustl.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install? Message-ID: <id.TTXJ1.V5A@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <3o4lp2$b2i@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3orbtt$su9@passion.nosc.mil> <3ottl6$l7@park.uvsc.edu> <3ov1ba$93e@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:00:37 GMT Lines: 22 In article <3ov1ba$93e@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: > 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.. :-) And people wonder why I picture Jordan as this crazed hyperactive toon ferret... obviously suffering from a sugar rush... -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"