<div dir="ltr">when I worked for a cellular carrier in the 90s there emerged one of the funnier acyronyms I've come across in my career: the "COW", or Cell(site) on Wheels, which was devised as a "quick strike" response weapon against the wireless industry's archnemesis, the NIMBY, or "not in my backyard!!!" (you know, those nice folk who complain when their .6w handset drops a call but show up at zoning meetings w/torches & pitchforks if you try to build a cellsite within 5 miles of their house).<br>
<br>anyway, the advent of the "COW" led to all kinds of horrific puns to describe legitimate, COW-related transactions:<br><br>the "cowboys" - engineers/techs who delivered/setup & worked on the things<br>
the "corral" - where the undeployed COWs were kept<br>the "cattle drive" - deploying multiple COWs for a special event (golf tournament, 96 Olympics, etc).<br>the "moo-nine" - the capital request form (technically M00-9) regions had to submit before buying COWs (ironically the M00-9 predated the COW by several years)<br>
<br>and those are just the ones I remember... :D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/30 Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><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 squished into a 40' shipping container...<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br><br>
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