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Quickies from OLS - les Quickies d'OLS
I'm here at Ottawa Linux Symposium, and I took the Quickies to the crowd and let them pick some of today's Quickies. Hope you like them.
CitizenC told us to check out The Kama Sutra of Winnie the Pooh. Scary.
alpha264 wrote in about a pegboard computer."
Darkness Productions told us that Spaz Labs was back."
Phrogman shared a huge collection of Space Images now available on Spaceref.com.
kbolton told us to look at streaming anime for free.
scampbell said that Yamaha Paper Craft has updated their rare-animal paper sculpture collection to include the Yellow-eyed Penguin.
_endgame mentioned that voting has begun for the Freenet Logo."
An anonymous coward wrote in about the Men of Sieg Hall calendar. I included that one for Telsa.
cdlu wrote (from about ten feet away) about this thing that creates much annoyance from the console.
MURL said that Christopher Lee has been cast in the role of a charismatic separatist in Episode II.
And finally, I just wanted to mention that Dave Taylor from that company stopped by just to make sure that he wasn't mentioned in the Quickies. Teehee.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those pegboard computers? You could even lie about 10 of them on top of each other and it still would only be about 1 foot tall.
shouldn't that have been first pooh-st... or better yet first time for pooh-st...
I'm sorry.
-- Point? None! Cob.
eh? what did emmett forget to put here?
I post links to stuff here
What kind of sex manual are they trying to push on us?
NightHawk
Tyranny =Gov. choosing how much power to give the People.
ba-dum-DUM!
Shy
The full list of cast (which is quite full) can be found here.
Some interesting notes: Jimmy Smits (of NYPD Blue and others) has been cast as Senator Bail Organa, with more lines to follow in Episode III. Unle Owen and Aunt Beru, have also been cast, along with several bounty hunters. This piece details that one of the bounty hunters will be a woman -- and the absence of Boba Fett, who will be in Episode II, leads to the inevitable question: will Boba Fett be a woman (a la Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi?)
http://www.planetx.com/pooh/positions.phtml
:-)
- Bill
What interests me about these shows is that they demonstrate how Linux is no longer truly 'free.' Of course, most of us here just downloaded are dist. and not paying the extra 'media costs.' But, obviously someone is paying for the Linux dists considering that these companies are making $$$. Interesting how things that are 'free' no longer are. Is this the future of free/open source? Pay-for open source? Get the software, pay for all the support? (damn, like MS provides any support with Win)
I am not a supporter of the "open source" movement, however I am a supporter of the GNU free software movement. If you want to talk with me about free software, please use the correct terms. Thank you.
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"scampbell said that Yamaha Paper Craft has updated their rare-animal paper sculpture collection to include the Yellow-eyed Penguin."
:)
now that's pretty cool. has anyone tried making one of these? I'm pretty sure that this is next thing be sold at any linux conference. almost free, and you can have a cluster of them.
Apple's Design Approach
perl -e '$SIG{INT} = $SIG{TERM} = "IGNORE"; while(1) { print "I have been h4x0rd\n"; system("playcore");}'
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A mind is a terrible thing to taste.
"A mind is a terrible thing to taste."
Here's a simpler paper penguin, origami-style:
http://jimthompson.org/w-p0001954.jpg
I'll write up and post instructions if anyone's interested in learning how to make them.
--Jim
I don't if I'm wrong, but when I have a 3 days long weekend, I can find something else to do than wasting my time in building up such a stupid thing.
Why would you spent 5 days/week working on those damn machines, then, when you've go a weekend for yourself, you say "Hey, why not do something an old computer.. duh..".
My 0.02 pissed off dollards...
While the pegboard computer is kinda neat, it reminds me of a much harder challenge. Build a computer that play a perfect game of tic-tac-toe (aka noughts and crosses) built only from 300 empty matchboxes and a set of coloured beads. Donald Michie did this back in 1960. You can find out more here
.Oh, and man, those Men of Sieg Hall are just plain scary.
Sailing over the event horizon
For those of you interested in reading the real Kama Sutra, check this page out
"The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
"The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
- Marquis De Sade
Am I the only one that's getting server errors at sputnik?
Is the site getting slashdotted, or did I just sign up for nothing?
--Dave
Damn! Right after I rip out my internal speaker and LEDs to keep my mom from shutting my workstation down while I'm out, I find a use for that beeping thing. *hunts around room for speaker*
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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My ex-gf's nickname is Poohbear, has been since she was a kid. I picked up the nickname Tigger due to a poster in her room that looks like Tigger is humping Poohbear (note that the person who purchased it for her didn't have that thought in mind, it's a kids poster).
We're all different.
Eh...
"And props out to dave taylor and the transmeta crew, keeping it real. i'll never forget kayak99 guys!!"
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See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.
There's a bug in coreplayer.c that will bite people with PowerPC or Alpha machines. Just because char is signed on x86 doesn't mean it's signed everywhere. fgetc() returns an int, so ch should be an int.
Here's a patch:
While Quebec is "the french speaking province," all of the Candian provinces I have been in (all two of them) seem to have french subscript over everything written in public. Lay off the author here.
also, most places in Ottawa are about 15 minutes away from the Quebec border.
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
--Albert Einstein
Where the hell did this guy come from? I assume that the french translation is there because Ottawa has a predeliction for bilingual signage, not to mention a large number of french-speaking and bilingual people, it being the capitol and right across from Hull and all. I don't see why this person wouldn't know that.
BTW, Ottawa isn't a province (or did you mean Ontario?). There are plenty of french-speaking people in Canada outside of Quebec, and plenty of non-French-speaking people inside Quebec.
Minor nitpick: That abbreviation would probably be the other way around in French.
Amazing - this is the first off-topic post I've found really COOL. =)
I'm a huge DeadHead myself, so seeing something like this is nice - even if Bruce Hornsby didn't play much of his stuff with the Dead. Although, "White Wheeled Limousine" sounds great when he plays it with The Other Ones.
BTW, did you happen to check out any of the Phil & Friends shows this summer with Bobby Dylan? I managed to get screwed out of seeing the two shows I had planned to catch.
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When viewing streaming windows media files, is there any way to download it to disk for later viewing?
Any other good streaming anime sites on the net?
TIA
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I have realplayer, but sputnik thinks I don't. Is there any way to convince it I'm ok? I'm in linux, of course
streaming anime of the Kama Sutra of paper sculpture men of Sieg Hall and Christopher Lee in space produced by a pegboard computer while running playcore from a console.
I was in Sieg Hall once because the professor for a post-graduate computer science course decided to distribute the assignments as Word documents. The assignments were only 1 or 2 paragraphs of pure text! Sheesh! Rather than just paste the text into a ascii file and send that out instead he printed them out and left them outside his office (which was in Sieg Hall). (BTW, if you are considering the UW be forewarned that it is a fucking ghost town at night.)
Anyone notice they also casted the roles of Luke's Aunt and Uncle?
Maybe we can figure out more about Queen Amidala's family in this next movie, or maybe the term "Aunt" and "Uncle" mean they are foster relatives.
It would make sense since the name is Beru and Owen Lars, but they could be legitimate relatives if Beru and Amidala are sisters..
Sorry to spoil the plot, but it is neat what kind of deductions one can make by just looking at the situation.
Can anyone else draw any interesting conclusions from that page?
(Btw, check out the girl that is going to play Beru, maybe now we can get all the leet 'First Post!' dudes to sing a different song!)
A: "Man, this band sucks!"
WWJD? JWRTFM!!!
Stop that--no golden guns allowed.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
That PbC is pretty cool, but kind of obvious. I have done what he did in the past, that is, run hard drives while they were open. All you read says that the tiniest speck of anything will kill a hard drive, but I have run them open for a while with no problems. It is interesting to see the difference between how a voice coil vs. stepper motor drive works.
:)
It would be cool if someone were to make a totally transparent computer, all the way down to the cases on all the drives. Kind of like an iMac on steriods. At least you might be able to see what is happening when your hard drive starts making that grinding noise.
Bet that would be hell to get FCC approval on with zero RF shielding.
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I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Man..... you can get some good playtime out of and ! It gets monotonous and annoying after a while, but there's a cool part at the beginning of my types.h, and both of them end with this really nifty low note....
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! It'd be worse than a marching band in 110 degree (F) weather.
:)
Thad
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I'm all out of core files for the moment! I'm not able to test playcore :( ;)
so if you're on napster join #corecwareznow!
now all I need is a CORE file composer, oh wait I've got netscape!
Well, until the story leaks that the whole time Linus has been working there he's been playing Tetris and they just hired him to get huge amounts of free publicity from slashdot.
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That is the most annoying thing I have ever seen on this screen. It should be put down !!
~ This sentence is never right.
"Man", you said the joke wrong. =)
Q: What did the Deadhead say when he ran out of acid ?
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There is a new Microsoft bug in IIS.
.+htr to the end of the .cfm file and you can view the ColdFusion source... Ouch..
:)
Go to any website you know of that uses ColdFusion. Add
That is why you encrypt any production code
Sorry to not make this article more informative by providing the link on how to fix it its real simple.. Heres a link
Microsoft Security Bulletin
This article covers yet another new DoS attack and also discusses the file fragment thing I just shared
No joke its ugly...
Jeremy
If you think education is expensive, try ignornace
Slashdot is not linux. Redhat is not linux. VA is not linux.
Linux is linux. ALl the others are just 'doing things' with it, which is perfectly fine.
Linux exists because people want it to, and because people made it, not because of business.
Someone already has built a clear computer, minus the clear drive casings though, check it out here.
- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
... would be more interesting if it was a pegboard WEBSERVER.
Looks kind of like my email server, except for the harddrive windows (!) and the pegboard.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
Fucking self-centered Yanks don't know shit about the world outside their SUV's.
Damn! Good thing you told us... what if we'd nuked the wrong place?
Oh please, As if there are not enough holy wars in this world. Please talk about CONTENT not NAME.
Maybe someone should come up with a term both ESR and RMS are happy with.
I'm completely amazed that he didn't wipe out any hard drives with casing dust/fragments. I keep looking at my PC, and it keeps inching slowly towards the door....it can read my mind, I guess.
It kind of reminds me of the time I did a system upgrade, got bored and ran the old parts with some other spares, on a towel for a week or two.
And it also reminds me of the friend who referred to the missing drivebay faceplate as a "gaping hole" in the PC....hehe.
Pegboard? Buying a new computer? Pentium75, 875MB HDD?
I wanted an X-terminal for a second machine. I wanted it cheap. I wanted it really cheap. I also wanted it really quiet. I then rummaged around my cupboard for pieces. All neccessary was there.
The only problem was space: I didn't have that in my room. The only free case I had was a full-sized tower. I didn't want that crowding my room, so I hung it on the size of my desk. No fine pegboard or such, just a few screws and voila!
It's a 486 SX 25MHz with no hard drive (that would have been noisy) and with even the power supply's fan tweaked slower. And I can run the latest version of Netscape on it any day.
I doubt, therefore I may be.
Uhhh....Isnt Christopher Lee somewhere between 80 and 200 years old?I suspect that
he will probably vapor lock before the next
celluloid masturbationfest is complete.
How about Bob Hope for Vader?
Slim Pickens as Obi Wan?
Phyllis Diller as Leia?
Don Knotts as Luke?
Better yet,use everyone who was ever on the Love Boat and Hollywood Squares.Now Thats a Star Wars
that even I would bother to see.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
MURL said that Christopher Lee has been cast in the role of a charismatic separatist in Episode II.
:)
So Christophe Lee has been cast as Queen Amidala's Wonderbra. Wonder how much he's getting paid for that role...
Is it just my stupidity or are my quickies infected with the HollandCRC virus?
Dirt doesn't need luck.
is perfectly possable.
RF shielding basically consists of a Farady cage around the compnent. To do this in a transparent case will require the use of a transparent conductive material.
These exist.
For example, the most common in indium tin oxide, although alternatives exists, such as indium gallium nitrate
In this particular case, the requirement for the anneal post-deposition for indium tin oxide could be a problem, assuming the case is made of a polymer. Additionally, you'd need an outer layer, the conductive Faraday cage, and then an inner layer, to protect the conductive layer.
Still, it is 100% possable. And expensive.
Slashdot effect on the pooh-pr0n.
Well, the server didnt crash, but check out the pretty pictures.
http://www.planetx.com/logs/usage_200 007.page
/nutt
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Here it is. It's a funny choice for a mug shot, if you ask me....
Nate
-- Watch the REAL Jon Katz.
So I read the page about the pegboard computer. Looked like a fun piece of functional art. For ergonomic reasons I decided that it might be a fun project for an hour, so I built my own. This one is my primary machine (PII 400, 128MB, Debian) and its currently chugging away on a large piece of pegboard. I'm going to hang it on the wall, and add some christmas lights and stickers and such. Click here for a picture (before lights.)