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What's truely astonishing is that after pecking at the keyboard for 15 seconds, he managed to get a Mac Plus to display a 3D molecular model.

That is not too hard to believe.

Check out the Bernard Hatt entry. Only 246 bytes. The Mark Weyer entry (208 bytes) could also pass as a Trek diagram.

As I keep trying to convince my signif. other, it is not how long it is, but how you use it :-)

What's truely astonishing is that after pecking at the keyboard for 15 seconds, he managed to get a Mac Plus to display a 3D molecular model.

That is not too hard to believe.

Check out the Bernard Hatt entry. Only 246 bytes. The Mark Weyer entry (208 bytes) could also pass as a Trek diagram.

As I keep trying to convince my signif. other, it is not how long it is, but how you use it :-)

What's truely astonishing is that after pecking at the keyboard for 15 seconds, he managed to get a Mac Plus to display a 3D molecular model.

That is not too hard to believe.

Check out the Bernard Hatt entry. Only 246 bytes. The Mark Weyer entry (208 bytes) could also pass as a Trek diagram.

As I keep trying to convince my signif. other, it is not how long it is, but how you use it :-)

Wow, what a clueless rant. Here's some suggestions:

• OpenOffice can write both MSWord files and PDF files. Where's the supposed incompatability?
• Just about every Linux distro nowadays uses DHCP to find network parameters.
• Local proxy problems are an issue with the local network setup. Any competant network admin should set up transparent HTTP proxying and/or allow direct connections anyway.
• Here's a recent eWeek article about setting up Samba to work in an AD domain. Admittedly, it is hard to find docs for Samba that are useful and up to date. AD support is, of course, rather bleeding edge.
• Email? You couldn't just email the document to an account?
• FTP? A lot of places have some sort of FTP space for students. And it's easy to setup an FTP server in Linux.
• A USB thumb drive. Hell, a lot of other devices also use the USB mass storage device spec - digital cameras, MP3 players, mobile/cell phones, etc. Linux has no problems with either mounting the FAT filesystem or using Mtools directly.
• A CDR/RW disc? I've heard that this sort of support is almost a no-brainer nowadays under Mandrake or SuSE.
• And lastly, Explore2fs allows a windows machine to read an e2fs filesystem.

But hey, thanks for your dramatic little piece of fiction. Your cluelessness is only surpassed by your ability to blow things out of proportion, to make a mountain out of a molehill. Perhaps you should go into politics.

Pretty simple at Swinburne (down right now for a major machine room upgrade of the electricity supply and UPS). The switch automatically detects the presence of a virus infected computer, and shuts off the port. The luser then has to go and inform ITS, and when they can prove that the machine is clean, the port is reconnected. Easy peasy.

Yeah. Since computers and math could never produce anything beautiful

Nice. One of the images seems similar to something I've seen in the past. Does anyone else think this one looks like a scene from one of those rendered Starcraft clips?

For even more consise examples, check out the POVRay short code contest, where they have everything from landscapes to pottery exhibits to cities to blood-cells -- each in under 256 bytes of source code.

Seems like povray is used for many cool things.
e.g. rendering mars. Also done here

Here's a simple demonstration of denumerable numbers at Paul Bourke's page.

I remember being very confused the first time I used the Recycle Bin. On my Mac, if I wanted to throw something out, I put it in the trash because that's where things I didn't want anymore should go. But the recycle bin? I don't want three old images to be mixed together and then one find a not-quite-as-good image waiting on my computer the next day.

Clearly you've never experience the fertile ground for creativity that image composting can produce. There's apparently lots of graduate work being done in it, and companies like Adobe and Macromedia have been adding it to their products for a while now.

What's that? C-o-m-p-o-s-i? "i" you say?

oh.

Erhm, cut to the chase:

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs. htm

Explore ex2fs

But the Lorenz Attractor looks like a butterfly from certain angles, and not at all like a seagull!

However, that cannot prevent an attack by Google. You wouldn't want to block requests referred by google.com, because you do want people to find your site, right?

As reported in a previous story, Google linked their main logo graphic to an information academic site and brought it down. Subsequently, Slashdot hit, but it didn't hold a candle to Google. Fortunately, such attacks by Google are rare. Of course, there is no way to determine your risk for a Google attack, unlike slashdot attacks.

The best idea is to always keep your server ready to handle any load.

I'll probably get modded down for this, but so be it.

However, that cannot prevent an attack by Google. You wouldn't want to block requests referred by google.com, because you do want people to find your site, right?

As reported in a previous story, Google linked their main logo graphic to an information academic site and brought it down. Subsequently, Slashdot hit, but it didn't hold a candle to Google. Fortunately, such attacks by Google are rare. Of course, there is no way to determine your risk for a Google attack, unlike slashdot attacks.

The best idea is to always keep your server ready to handle any load.

I'll probably get modded down for this, but so be it.

(Take a look at the verbose version of the code for an easier read.)

The buildings are actually just one big isosurface. This is a surface in 3D space that is described by a function, similar to describing a line on a 2D graph. For example (warning, I'm been out of school for a while!), the formula y=x would describe a straight line at a 45 deg angle, whereas y=x^2 describes a parabolic curve. You can make the formula more complex and make us of functions (like sin(), cos(), max(), etc...) to end up with some really funky lines that wobble all over.

The authors of "City" and "The Agate Face" both use isosurfaces effectively.

I cannot.

I am not an art teacher but if I was (and did you read the blurb about the panel members?) I think I would say things like:

"The warm tones in the foreground and the blue background give The agate face a sense of space and a feeling that this is a glimpse of a place that continues on in all directions. But I wonder why I should look at it. What is supposed to be happening here? Was it meant to be a picture taken by a hiker who didn't pull out his camera fast enough when he saw a roadrunner? Is it a dying jawa's last glimpse of home? You have brought me to an interesting place but I have no idea why".

...and...

"There is a dramatic tension between the shadows in front of the sphere and the bright background. And the contrast between the sphere and its context is dynamic and mysterious. The sphere is a truly focused object: visually and physically it is symmetrical on all possible axes. That internal calm balances the external ambiguity in the scene and gives a sense of poise amidst chaos. There is no way to tell if the sphere is stationary, rolling slowly, or streaking by - or which way its going if it is moving. And whether it is in a small, brightly lit container or some vast, glowing space may never be known. But that does not matter; in fact it makes Simple all the more engaging. What does matter is that the compositional elements give a believable sense of physicality and of space while maintaining a visual unity through their contrasting qualities.

Yeah, I'd say something like that. But fortunately I am not an art teacher and don't have to.

However, I will say that I know how long it would take me to model Simple in Rhinoceros or Alias, and how long it would take me to tweak the surfaces and the lights before I could reproduce that scene. Visually, and to someone who can't grok it, the code for Simple is as unified and compelling as the image itself. I actually sat staring in wonder at the code for as long as I did at the image. Come to think of it, that's exactly why I consider it (and by at least one formal definition it is) art!

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

• Each voter will choose their six favourite images based upon artistic merit. A first choice will get 6 points, the second will get 5 points, and so on.
• The gold place winner will be determined by dividing the total number of points awarded by the byte count.
• The silver place winner will be the entry with the highest number of points.
• The bronze place will go to the entry with the highest number of points divided by the square of the bytes used, this rewards the lower byte counts while still requiring an interesting image.

• Each voter will choose their six favourite images based upon artistic merit. A first choice will get 6 points, the second will get 5 points, and so on.
• The gold place winner will be determined by dividing the total number of points awarded by the byte count.
• The silver place winner will be the entry with the highest number of points.
• The bronze place will go to the entry with the highest number of points divided by the square of the bytes used, this rewards the lower byte counts while still requiring an interesting image.

• Each voter will choose their six favourite images based upon artistic merit. A first choice will get 6 points, the second will get 5 points, and so on.
• The gold place winner will be determined by dividing the total number of points awarded by the byte count.
• The silver place winner will be the entry with the highest number of points.
• The bronze place will go to the entry with the highest number of points divided by the square of the bytes used, this rewards the lower byte counts while still requiring an interesting image.

• Each voter will choose their six favourite images based upon artistic merit. A first choice will get 6 points, the second will get 5 points, and so on.
• The gold place winner will be determined by dividing the total number of points awarded by the byte count.
• The silver place winner will be the entry with the highest number of points.
• The bronze place will go to the entry with the highest number of points divided by the square of the bytes used, this rewards the lower byte counts while still requiring an interesting image.

• Each voter will choose their six favourite images based upon artistic merit. A first choice will get 6 points, the second will get 5 points, and so on.
• The gold place winner will be determined by dividing the total number of points awarded by the byte count.
• The silver place winner will be the entry with the highest number of points.
• The bronze place will go to the entry with the highest number of points divided by the square of the bytes used, this rewards the lower byte counts while still requiring an interesting image.

• Each voter will choose their six favourite images based upon artistic merit. A first choice will get 6 points, the second will get 5 points, and so on.
• The gold place winner will be determined by dividing the total number of points awarded by the byte count.
• The silver place winner will be the entry with the highest number of points.
• The bronze place will go to the entry with the highest number of points divided by the square of the bytes used, this rewards the lower byte counts while still requiring an interesting image.

Wow, you anticipated it! See what is up now!
Wow. I found the link on the updated original page

Wow, you anticipated it! See what is up now!
Wow. I found the link on the updated original page

You have seen the slashdot version haven't you?

I don't think a story on this would be accepted though. After all, the image on the page is an IE rendering of slashdot. How embarrassing!

Reading Slashdot?

After all, they have the a crapload of machines, they seem to have a nice fat pipe - and they obviously have the knowledge to build the worlds 180th fastest supercomputer in 2002.

Well they've done the first part. Now we just need another Slashdot story :)

As a matter of fact, Paul already used a term for this in his page (check the second one he made after he was /.'d).

He called it 'googleblatted'.

In honor of Douglas Adams (and his infamous Bugblatter Beast of Traal), I propose this become the official term for being blatted by google ;)

As they say, sure kicking someone when they are down. And I prefer this googlefight, seeing as how the Julia set site mentions "Googleblatted"

They have. The new page is located here. (Okay, everyone click on that link!)

it's our turn to take it (the page they are displaying now) down now.

shall we? :)

There is a utility called--GASP-- dd that does this.

I M SO SMRT I CN'T USE GOOGLE!!11!

Have ya ever noticed that Windows can't see your Linux partitions?

Have ya ever noticed that Windows can't see your Linux partitions?

for(int r=-1,c=0;r!=38;c++){if(c>r){r++;printf("\n"); for(c=38;c!=r;c--)printf(" ");c=0;}printf(~r&c?" `":" #");}

Nice sig! But isn't there an easier way to create a Sierpinski Gasket ?

Microsoft may or may not be acknowledging Linux, but I mounted some ext3 partitions just the other day.

It's only RGB after decoding.

NTSC video uses the YIQ color space, very similar to YUV (used in PAL, JPEG, DVD, & stuff). Y is the brightness, which gets the highest resolution, and I & Q (or U & V) are the chroma values, which can be greatly subsampled because they have no effect on brightness (when everything's working correctly).

Most lossy image compression formats involve first transforming the image to the yuv color space. The RGB->YUV transform is also used by many paint programs for things like estimating differences between colors for color reduction & such.

First match on google for "YIQ YUV":
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/colour/conve rt/

You mean Explore2fs?

Yes, it reads ext3. And yes, it's free.

That was a tpyo... I'll try again

Or This, which has a "I just want to download it..." link...

ext2ifs

...The *only* nice thing about FAT is that all the Windows machines in the world can read it without installing drivers...

Yes, but how hard is it to implement a windows DLL which allows reading ext2 (for example)? At http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs. htm there is such a program. Have whatever program/DLL included with the digital device install program. End of problem and paying M$ royalties. After all, ext2 is fully documented and (to the best of my knowledge) patent free.

And for those who will claim, "But that is an extra step!": Yes, but the drivers only need be installed once, and the ability to save about $250,000 per license term (a year maybe???) will be hard to resist for manufacturers. I've seen manufacturers skimp on things which cost a lot less.

Is there a win32 ext2/3 filesystem driver out there anywhere?

You can access ext2/3 partition using explore2fs. There is writing support too, but I think this is still in a testing phase.

Linky, although it's not exactly a driver.

More likely we'll start seing unformatted drives and memory sticks/cards all over the place.

Is there a win32 ext2/3 filesystem driver out there anywhere?

Searching for "win32 ext2" yields this as the first link.

As a Robotics Engineer at Swinburne University, let me be the third to say, YIPPIE! Although it doesn't necessarily have to be manned :P

There is also Explore2fs, which gives you read only access to your ext2/ext3 partitions:

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs. htm

I've used it several times without any drama. It's a little clunky to use and pretty slow, but it does the job.

How did people get around this issue before Read/Write access to NTFS? Did they have a FAT32 partition or something that both of the OS installations shared?

Linux is my primary O/S. I only use Windows to uhh... well... I'm not sure what I use it for since I haven't booted to it in a couple of months. But I still have it on another partition.

Anyway - I have my external Firewire drives formatted as EXT3 and I use Mount Everything to read/write to them under Windows. Not a free program though.

This is another solution you can try for reading/writing to Linux partitions under Windows. This one IS free.

And one final idea, also not free - and probably rendered obsolete by today's announcement of this Captive project - but it's another source never the less. This is for reading/writing to NTFS partitions under Linux.

I'd like to give credit to the people who pointed out these links to me but it was a long time ago and I don't remember who they were.