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.

Comments

Bah

[NightHwk]

I'm disapointed http://www.planetx.com/pooh/ didn't include tigger pouring grits down his pants, while facing pooh, petrified of course!

What kind of sex manual are they trying to push on us?

NightHawk

Tyranny =Gov. choosing how much power to give the People.

Star Wars: Episode II Casting Updates

[Johnathon Walls]

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?)

Re:Star Wars: Episode II Casting Updates

[jdub!]

Hahahaha... You just have to look at the character page for Bail Organa.

I mean, this was the only time we've seen the old chap.

Laugh yourself silly.

skip the storyline, go right to the pr0n!

[garcia]

http://www.planetx.com/pooh/positions.phtml

:-)

- Bill

Re:skip the storyline, go right to the pr0n!

[wowbagger]

They seem to be using the Referrer: string to "protect" themselves from deep-linking. Unfortunately for those of us who disable that particular header in our proxies...

Linux Free?

[2quam4]

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)

Re:Linux Free?

[StevenMaurer]

Linux has never been "free" as in beer.

Even those who download a distribution spend money for the connection time, one way or another, which is pro-rated into the cost of getting Linux. Granted, for many the can mean a marginal cost approaching zero, but it is still not free. You also don't get "free" consultation either.

What Linux is - is "free" as in freedom. Unlike MS or Apple, you can modify to your hearts content. This gives you control.

That's what Linux is. If you thought otherwise, you haven't been listening very closely

Re:Linux Free?

[Frymaster]

Linux has never been "free" as in beer.

It's actually free as in water and air. Water is free... but I still pay a buck for it in a bottle... air is free, but I still pay a (couple of) buck(s) for it to come in a can. Selling free things is nothing new.

Re:typo?

[zeda]

Perhaps he meant the Freenet Logo Contest.

http://whiterose.sourceforge.net /index.php?page=page

More Paper Penguins

[kzinti]

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

Pegboard computer...

[gwernol]

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.

Kama Sutra

[Phil Eschio]

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."

playcore

[linuxonceleron]

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*

highschool

[happystink]

is it me or do these quickies sound like a high-school yearbook?

"And props out to dave taylor and the transmeta crew, keeping it real. i'll never forget kayak99 guys!!"

sig:

Bug in coreplayer.c

[SamHill]

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:

--- coreplayer.c.orig Thu Jul 20 14:42:55 2000
+++ coreplayer.c Thu Jul 20 18:01:09 2000
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

FILE *core;
unsigned short frequency;
- char ch;
+ int ch;

signal(2,int_trap);

Re:Bug in coreplayer.c

[acidrain]

I'm not the only one who played it? Is it just me or does it scream a little too loud whan passed .gz's?

Joke

[Ranger Rick]

Q: What did the deadhead say when he ran out of pot?

A: "Man, this band sucks!"

:wq!

Playcore... I tried it.

[Izaak]

What a perfectly useless program... I loved it! Maybe with just a little work I can modify it to compose jazz riffs based on core files.

:)

Thad

corefiles on napster?

[setre]

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!

Re:corefiles on napster?

[ralphclark]

If you want a core file then just try running netscape for a few minutes.

(got to enable core files first of course)

Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction

1000th post - about transmeta

[happystink]

Is anyone scared of how many links to Transmeta there will be after they've actually been around a while and have a bunch of products out? Me too. I think the entire slashdot index page will just be links to Transmeta. Stories about microsoft, Corel, Star Wars, Lego, they'll all link to transmeta.com exclusively.

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.

sig:

Re:Linux independent? What a joke!

[mindstrm]

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.