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Simon Brooke
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in message <[email protected]>, Ambrose Nankivell
('[email protected]') wrote:
> "John Hearns" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]...
>> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:24:47 +0000, Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
>>> That said, despite the fact that I benefit from 4kW of heating all to
>>> myself, I'm normally working in an ambient temperature of about 10
>>> celsius.
>> Get round the back, and start running something CPU intensive. Toasty
>> warm then. And wear those ear plugs. I SAID WEAR THOSE EAR PLUGS.
>
> Much as I'd love to be a full time techy, due to recent health
> problems, and all kinds of other ****, the information repository that
> I work in produces no heat, and stores the information mainly by a
> highly redundant (c. 100kilobits/character) 2d matrix of carbon on
> cellulose.
[snip: wonderful stuff]
Love it. Could I grab this 'whole cloth' as it were (with attributions of
course) for use in an essay or lecture some time?
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
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('[email protected]') wrote:
> "John Hearns" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]...
>> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:24:47 +0000, Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
>>> That said, despite the fact that I benefit from 4kW of heating all to
>>> myself, I'm normally working in an ambient temperature of about 10
>>> celsius.
>> Get round the back, and start running something CPU intensive. Toasty
>> warm then. And wear those ear plugs. I SAID WEAR THOSE EAR PLUGS.
>
> Much as I'd love to be a full time techy, due to recent health
> problems, and all kinds of other ****, the information repository that
> I work in produces no heat, and stores the information mainly by a
> highly redundant (c. 100kilobits/character) 2d matrix of carbon on
> cellulose.
[snip: wonderful stuff]
Love it. Could I grab this 'whole cloth' as it were (with attributions of
course) for use in an essay or lecture some time?
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; may contain traces of nuts, bolts or washers.