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My favorite was the server that couldn't send email further than 500 miles away. http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/5
by wdr1 10y ago
My favorite was the server that couldn't send email further than 500 miles away.
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- perezdev 10y agoDidn't someone prove this to be nonsense?
- macinjosh 10y agoDon't ruin our industry's good anecdotes with reality!!!
- HCIdivision17 10y agoThe author notes at the outset it's embellished to be entertaining, but nothing in the actual big seemed outlandish. The only thing that struck me as unlikely was that someone would actually work out and notice the radius. But I also know people like that, so I'd give the story the benefit of the doubt.
- varjag 10y agoThe user in the story is the chairman of statistics dept.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThat story was what got me using GNU Units. Which turns out to be a surprisingly powerful, and very much units aware, calculator. Want to convert acreage into MWh of annual solar electric potential, or figure out the oil equivalent energy in a nation's poop? Units can do that. And much more.