From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 13 18: 6:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFCC151A0 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 18:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA03286; Thu, 13 May 1999 21:07:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04667; Thu, 13 May 1999 21:06:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id VAA45328; Thu, 13 May 1999 21:06:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:06:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199905140106.VAA45328@lakes.dignus.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: [Re: BUDS Coming to you soon.] Cc: jesus.monroy@usa.net In-Reply-To: <373B7585.21FC7A73@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 2 to the 313th power is a *very* *big* number... (hmm.... I wonder > > how much paper would be required to print it out; do we have that > > many trees in the world? If we consider all the trees ever grown > > on the planet, is that enough? What if we made the font *really* > > small :-) ) > > No. Someone once commented that the 2^128 possible IPv6 address space > is enough to give every atom in the universe an IP address, so you'd > have to be able to print your number on subatomic particles to even > be able to print 2^313, let alone do something with it. > > > Perhaps you should simply try and determine, say, the top > > 20 hardware configuarations and test the kernel configuarations > > that match those. You might be able to expand that number to, > > say, the top 100, etc... > > Some study of the relevant books and articles on software testing > methodology would be a good starting point. > I have another suggestion. If we neglect interstellar travel time: there are <1000 billion stars in the milky way, assume each has one inhabited planet with an average of 8M people, each with 4 computers, so that means that (2**43 planets)(2**33 people/planet)(2*2 computers per person) means each person still has to do 2**235 compiles per "night" maybe we could ship them a new CD every night? :-) :-) :-) (I'm sorry, but me and a couple of friends have gone off the deep end tonight... :-) ) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message