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Subject:    Re: [Beowulf] Re: ECC Memory and Job Failures (Huw Lynes)
From:       Gerry Creager <gerry.creager () tamu ! edu>
Date:       2009-04-28 20:39:37
Message-ID: 49F76989.5040602 () tamu ! edu
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Lux, James P wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David N. Lombard [mailto:dnlombar@ichips.intel.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:26 AM
> > To: Gerry Creager
> > Cc: Lux, James P; beowulf@beowulf.org
> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Re: ECC Memory and Job Failures (Huw Lynes)
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:59:18AM -0700, Gerry Creager wrote:
> > > Lux, James P wrote:
> > > > On 4/28/09 5:14 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" <prentice@ias.edu> wrote:
> > > > > My favorite characteristic of these urban legends is that anyone 
> > > > > smart enough to pull off a trick like this is probably already 
> > > > > making enough money that they don't need to steal electricity.
> > > > > 
> > > > But I read it on the internets, and I don't have to know how it 
> > > > works, just follow the E-Z step by step instructions in 
> > the Youtube video.
> > > > And as for the source for the copper wire, you just wait til it's 
> > > > daytime, and steal it from the streetlight system like 
> > everyone else does.
> > > What's worse is when it appears in the IEEE Transactions, 
> > and I spend 
> > > a year and $4k to build the antenna I couldn't prove 
> > mathematically (I 
> > > assumed the authors' calculus fu was better than mine).  It didn't 
> > > work on paper when I tried... and it didn't work in 
> > practice with all 
> > > the same hardware save the 2 gm of unobtainium.
> > Yeah; let us know when you find a good source for that...
> > 
> > 
> Simple..it's in the cave of Grendel's mother
> You need a horse with a braided mane (line 1400)  to get there
> A shining helm (line 1448) and ring-mail (line 1503) and swords with pattern welded \
> blades (numerous instances of wave swords, etc.) But most important, you need \
> Hrunting: one above of ancient treasures, edged with iron, patterned with poison \
> twigs, even if it doesn't work because Grendel's mom is holding you, it probably \
> helps to have the monster fighting magic though. Here's Ben Slade telling the story \
> of cutting off Grendel's head (of course, otherwise you don't get the treasure, \
> eh?) http://www.beowulftranslations.net/beorefs/beowulf-audio-1584b-1590b-benslade.mp3
> 

Damn, that and the appropriate spell were in my bag of tricks all along 
and I had forgotten to check the "Classics" folder.

> In any case, you get to come back with lots of stuff, unobtaininum among it.
> 
> Ne nóm hé in þaém wícum     Weder-Géata léod 	He did not take into those dwelling,  \
> the leader of the Weder-Geats, máðmaéhta má    þéh hé þaér monige geseah 	more \
> treasures,    though he there saw a great number, búton þone hafelan    ond þá hilt \
> somod 		but that head    and the hilt as well since fáge·    sweord aér gemealt· 	  \
> shining with ornament;    the sword had already melted, forbarn bródenmaél·    wæs \
> þæt blód tó þæs hát, burned up the wavy-patterned (blade);     that blood was so \
> hot, ættren ellorgaést    sé þaér inne swealt.		the venomous foreign spirit    who \
> had perished there inside. 
> (text and translation from Ben Slade...

Which is better than the translation I read from the first two times I 
slogged through it.

gc
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