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

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?)

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

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."

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);