From: Alex Fort <imphasing@...>
Date: 2010-04-02T05:14:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Playing Games with "Ruids"

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:45 PM, thunk <gmkoller@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> and the most curious thing to me, with all the credentialated
> professors, and all the money at stake, and all the great things that
> COULD be done, I had 3 shopping baskets with computer components, at
> three state-of-the-art computer component suppliers and not one of
> them was in a position to do more than take my credit card number.
>
> And I thought - heck - here's a job for some good old thunk magic.
>
> NOW, 3 years later, I KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND HOW TO DO IT, and I still
> haven't seen any clue that this type of tool has been put to use.
>
> I like to BUILD my computers, bespoken and all, but I would have
> expected it to get EASIER, not more difficult.  Where are you guys
> doing useful things?
>
> Give old thunk 500 of "these units" and "good" data on the components
> and I'll show ANYBODY what I'm talking about.

Please do. As for me, I feel like I lose small portions of my brain
when I try to read what you're writing.


> Want to make a 5,000
> pound wager to make it interesting?   These things could verify
> cables, plugs, cpu to mem, fans, power, peer to peer performance, db
> estimation, cooling, and you name it these 500 could do it.  And
> somebody want to add a new one - it could come from any geek anywhere
> that knows his stuff.  I just thought that might be interesting.

It sounds very interesting, but I don't think anyone knows what you're
talking about. My first instinct was that you were some kind of Markov
chain, generating pure crazy. It would be nice to be proven wrong.


>
> so sorry.
>
>


Alex