Re: [Redhat] vmlinuz

["Tim Currie" <tim algernonsystems com>]

> Chris Hewitt wrote:
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> [serious snippage]
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>>> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens vitalstream com
>>> - - VitalStream, Inc.
>>> http://www.vitalstream.com - -
>>>                             - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty
>>> required to launch one ship. -
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>>
>>
>> Hmm. Should that not be "MegaHelen" then :-)
>
> Er, nope.  Helen of Troy was the woman with "the beauty to launch
> 1,000 ships".  1/1000th of that would be a "millihelen".  A "megahelen"
> would be the beauty to launch 1,000,000,000 ships.  Perhaps the formula
> would help (powers of 10, not 2):
>
> 1/1000 helen (1 millihelen) = launches 1 ship
> 1 helen = launches 1,000 ships (1 kiloship)
> 1000 helens (1 kilohelen) = launches 1,000 kiloships (1 megaship)
> 1000 kilohelens (1 megahelen) = launches 1,000 megaships (1 gigaship)
>
> Consider yourself chastised!  ;-)
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> Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens vitalstream com - -
> VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com - -
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> "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya.  You `kill -9'-ed my parent    - -
>                process.  Prepare to vi."                      -
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>
How incredibly, bizarrely off-topic.

Very funny, though. Can you do that in Roman numerals? :)

-Tim

p.s.Yes, I know it's a Greek story.