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So the founder of Men's Wearhouse, Dennis Peron, and the bassist for The Who walk into a bar. They get a frog and two spiders stoned. And then there is a mandrill.
-- Mr. Bad
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Man, I love German Linux users! They are sweaty,
lolling-tongued madmen! Here in America, Linux advocates
are busy doing boring crap like trying to get The Man to
accept Linux. Meanwhile, the Germans are doing shit-crazy
things like building the world's largest computer cluster
on national TV!
On December 5th and 6th, from 11:30 to 6AM, German Linux users' groups across
the country will be trying to assemble the world's largest Beowulf cluster.
For non-techies, computer clusters are groups of computers that have been tied
together with software to act as one machine. It's kind of like the Borg on
Star Trek -- many computers, one Computer Hive Mind.
Anyways, the insane Germans -- all volunteers -- are gonna join more than 500
Linux computers in unholy union. They've got less than 7 hours to do it. And
those are 7 of the most insane hours of the night, too!
Who knows what will happen? Maybe they will fail. Maybe they will succeed,
play a quick game of Nethack, and call it a night. Or maybe, just maybe, all
that distributed computing power will spontaneously bloom into a consciousness
that will infest the Internet and take us all to THE NEXT LEVEL!!! OK,
probably not, but it _could_ happen.
The completely crazy part is that they're going to be covered live on German
national TV! Admittedly, that's not exactly prime time -- they're just
competing with the farm report and the late late late late movie. But still!
Live coverage of hacking exploits!
I have no idea what happens to German Linux fanatics if they try a
hubris-filled dare-devil stunt like this and FAIL. Maybe one of the other LUG
officers leaves a loaded Amiga on their desk as a subtle indication that they
should do the honorable thing.
Anyhoo, one thing's for certain: the eyes of the world look to German Linux
users to provide insane Linux antics at impossible speeds. Check out this link
if you speak German, eh?
Check it out yourself
wary@pigdog.org
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