From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 22 0:45:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b058.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A9937C1B3 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5M7iV106564; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 03:44:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 03:44:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Handy Subject: Re: Hardware in space? In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000621233928.026e05c0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Well, there come several ideas to mind: > > 1) Avoid moving parts where possible. > Flash disks and similar technology (like in digital cameras) are certainly > appropriate. Not to mention the fact that moving parts, especially hard drives, can cause a gyroscopic effect that can throw the spin/orbit calculations right out the window.... Maybe.... I've had a few tonight.... :) --mike - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Understated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period: From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section: "FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities." ...duh....... Mike Nowlin, N8NVW mike@argos.org http://www.viewsnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message