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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What’s your BEEF with Geoffrey?</span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:12
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ale@ale.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Datacenter on a
truck</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>unsubscribing
Geoffrey....<br>
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:-)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Geoffrey Myers <<a
href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></p>
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On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:<br>
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> That was udderly ridiculous…<br>
<br>
don't even respond, he's sure to milk it for all it's worth.</span></font></p>
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> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf
Of<br>
> Sid Lane<br>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:59 PM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Datacenter on a truck<br>
><br>
> when I worked for a cellular carrier in the 90s there emerged one of<br>
> the funnier acyronyms I've come across in my career: the
"COW", or<br>
> Cell(site) on Wheels, which was devised as a "quick strike"
response<br>
> weapon against the wireless industry's archnemesis, the NIMBY, or<br>
> "not in my backyard!!!" (you know, those nice folk who complain
when<br>
> their .6w handset drops a call but show up at zoning meetings w/<br>
> torches & pitchforks if you try to build a cellsite within 5 miles<br>
> of their house).<br>
><br>
> anyway, the advent of the "COW" led to all kinds of horrific
puns to<br>
> describe legitimate, COW-related transactions:<br>
><br>
> the "cowboys" - engineers/techs who delivered/setup & worked
on the<br>
> things<br>
> the "corral" - where the undeployed COWs were kept<br>
> the "cattle drive" - deploying multiple COWs for a special event<br>
> (golf tournament, 96 Olympics, etc).<br>
> the "moo-nine" - the capital request form (technically M00-9)<br>
> regions had to submit before buying COWs (ironically the M00-9<br>
> predated the COW by several years)<br>
><br>
> and those are just the ones I remember... :D<br>
> 2008/7/30 Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br>
> <a
href="http://www.rackablesystems.com/products/icecube.aspx?nid=datacenter_0"
target="_blank">http://www.rackablesystems.com/products/icecube.aspx?nid=datacenter_0</a><br>
><br>
> In case anyone has a need for 22,400 cores and 7.1 PB storage all<br>
> squished into a 40' shipping container...<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> --<br>
> James P. Kinney III<br>
><br>
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