From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 19:32:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1853216A4CE; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F2B43FA3; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:32:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B283C2BD43; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 14:32:00 +1100 (EST) Received: from adelaide.lemis.com (unknown [203.117.90.121]) by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5ED511FC; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 14:01:57 +1030 (CST) Received: by adelaide.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3E94017FC4; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:28:43 +0800 (SGT) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:28:43 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Message-ID: <20031102022843.GB3275@adelaide.lemis.com> References: <20031031190847.GA13529@online.fr> <3FA423B7.D4F10C29@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FA423B7.D4F10C29@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Rahul Siddharthan cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: Bill Moran Subject: Re: How do hackers drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 03:32:08 -0000 On Saturday, 1 November 2003 at 13:20:55 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> I do plan out my trips, including short walks to the water fountain. >> But I probably don't calculate in detail: I tend to take the nearest >> turn each way, so in a situation like this >> >> --------W-- >> | | >> | | >> | | >> --O-------- >> >> to go from office (O) to water (W) and back, I do a clockwise circuit >> rather than judge which route is shorter and retrace the same route >> back > > That's totally insane!!!! > > How do you retract the invisible string that you leave behind > you everywhere you go, if you don't use an exact reverse route?!?! > > You do know you have a limited supply of invisible string on a > spool inside of you, and once you run out of string, you simply > fall over dead, apparently of natural causes, right??? Never heard of garbage collection? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers