People have installed Linux in some strange places over the years - from supercomputers to wristwatches, robotic insects and servers that fit into matchboxes. A reader recently sent us a link to one of the strangest Linux installations ever - Linux on Big Mouth Billy Bass. It's a touch ironic, considering that the Linux mascot is a well-fed penguin.
Billy Bass, in case you don't remember is that ridiculous singing fish someone thought we would like to hang on our walls.
On investigation, it turns out Billy Big Mouth has been singing the praises of Linux since 2001. In case you need the plans, they can be found at bigmouth.here-n-there.com.
According to their own website, Google indexes about three billion web pages, containing three trillion words. If it takes a human one minute to read each page, it would take 6,000 years to get through the whole index. Doing that on an eight-hour daily schedule, it would take 18,000 years, or 20,000 years (with weekends off).
Which probably helps explain why Google is setting up an engineering centre in Bangalore.
The Asia Weblog Awards, mentioned in these pages last week, have become one of the local web world's must-reads.
