TCP/IP over Bongo Drums 215
Michael500 writes "In an attempt to show that primitive communications can still function in modern networks, a friend of mine took up a challenge from his professor to replace the lowest layer of the OSI networking model with a set of bongo drums!"
sounds like yesterday's dilbert (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these (Score:5, Funny)
must be running the server over Bongo (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
One bug (Score:5, Funny)
The obvious network topology for it (Score:5, Funny)
should update the Linux cookie file (Score:3, Funny)
What is the RFC number (Score:3, Funny)
Is anybody working on a bridge between TCP over bongos and TCP over avian carriers?
Which has the greater bandwidth?
/dev/drum (Score:2, Funny)
His arms must be tired (Score:5, Funny)
Bongo (Score:5, Funny)
Jungle WiFi (Score:2, Funny)
Bongo drums? (Score:5, Funny)
One suspects that the bong played a bigger role in this project than the drums did.
nice (Score:5, Funny)
[ducks]
Bongo's not slashdot proof! (Score:2, Funny)
If bongos can carry TCP... (Score:5, Funny)
Bodhrans for higher speed (Score:4, Funny)
Some time you _do_ need to hear Dierdre McCarthy playing Wipeout on bodhran....
Re:Two drums for 1 and 0? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these (Score:3, Funny)
now you want to bring in the pagans?
WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!?
ping! (Score:5, Funny)
ICMP Destination Unreachable: Host taking a rest.
Re:Text of Home Page (Score:5, Funny)
pong (Score:3, Funny)
bandwidth (Score:4, Funny)
Dude, my reggae connection is sooooo slow! I can't wait until the telco rolls out the grunge-death-metal next month!
Re:Two drums for 1 and 0? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:nice (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these (Score:5, Funny)
Re:must be running the server over Bongo (Score:5, Funny)
Tack:[whisper]Oh shit..[/whisper]
Agent Smith:Tack, you were given specific orders.
Tack:I'm just doing my job.
Agent Smith:The orders were for your protection.
Tack:We can handle one little website.....
[Pause]
Tack: Well, I've increased the upstream bandwidth allowed for that box, and upped the max number of http processes. *fingers crossed*
Agent Smith:No Tack, your server is already dead.
Re:Text of Home Page (Score:3, Funny)
As an employer, I'd rather hire the the students from the slow track that bought a $5 nic at Fry's.
First death caused by slashdotting... (Score:4, Funny)
I fully expect... (Score:1, Funny)