“We flip a coin,” Kurt said, and grinned. “These guys in Denmark ran some simulations, proved that a random toss-up worked as well as any other algorithm, and it’s a lot cheaper, computationally.”
“So what’s going on just to the northeast of center?”
Alan paid attention to the patch of screen indicated. Three access points were playing musical chairs, dropping signal and reacquiring it, dropping it again.
Kurt shrugged. “Bum hardware, I think. We’ve got volunteers assembling those boxes, from parts.”
“Parts?”
Kurt’s grin widened. “Yeah. From the trash, mostly. I dumpster-dive for ’em.”
They grinned back. “That’s very hot,” Lyman said.
“We’re looking at normalizing the parts for the next revision,” Alan said. “We want to be able to use a single distro that works on all of them.”
“Oh, sure,” Lyman said, but he looked a little disappointed, and so did Kurt.
“Okay, it works,” Lyman said. “It works?” he said, nodding the question at his posse. They nodded back. “So what can we do for you?”