Re: Ping to test a connection to see if it's alive?(life, -- MIDRANGE-L

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Actually, it was the answer to the meaning of "Life, the Universe and 
Everything"
(hence, the name of the 2nd book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4 book
trilogy).

Regards,

Jim Langston

eric.delong@pmsi-services.com wrote:

>      42, for those who care, was the ultimate answer to the meaning of
>      life, as calculated by "Deep Thought" in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhikers
>      Trilogy". The problem with the answer was that nobody knew what the
>      question was, so another computer had to be built (the EARTH) to
>      calculate the ultimate question to the ultimate answer........
>

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