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Museum Of Broken Packets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the put-them-on-a-milk-carton dept.

hobbicik writes: "Quote from the page: 'The purpose of this museum is to provide a shelter for strange, unwanted, malformed packets - abandoned and doomed freaks of nature - as we, mere mortals, meet them on twisted paths of our grand journey called life.'" Interesting and amusing idea. Most of the wasted packets I get are IIS worm attempts -- not nearly as interesting.

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  1. Be sure by ez76 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Be sure to include this tragically lost packet.

  2. Where is this museum located? by Goronguer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is it, by any chance, on the Island of Misfit Toys?

  3. Re:Paranoid? Or are they really out to get us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yep,

    and its simple enough to actualy do, Oh I feel inspired :)

  4. Huh? by fobbman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boy, I'm sure glad that this ssubmission made it in and my submission about Apple's ownership of the Alpha Blending patent getting in the way of the PNG format's progression was rejected.

    Why yes, I am bitter about it. Thanks for asking. I finally felt like I had a story worth contributing to the masses.

    1. Re:Huh? by Millennium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, perhaps the reason Slashdot rejected it was that they already ran a story on Apple's alpha blending patent several days ago?

      Not all rejections are ridiculous, you know.

  5. funny by jonestor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shouldn't this be in the funny section?

  6. This submission sucks ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The has got to be the most pointless, pathetic waste of time and space post I have ever seen on the front page of Slashdot.

  7. My bet is... by CoolVibe · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The "strange line-noise" packet is what you could get when you poor fresh coffee into your router as it shorts out...

    Well.. actually, I haven't a clue what the hell that was, but I thought it was funny...

    But on a more serious note, interesting packets can be created with tools like hping and just futzing about with raw etherframes. I bet I can create junk like that programatically :-)

    The one on the end that got fixed by replacing the cable was interesting, I wonder what weird stuff reflections from coiled up UTP/BNC can display in your favourite network traffic analyzer...

  8. Wabi-Sabi by DaoudaW · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    All things are imperfect. Nothing that exists is without imperfections. When we look closely at things, we see the flaws. The sharp edge of a razor blade, when it is magnified, reveals pits, chips, and variegations. And as things begin to break down and approach the primordial state, they become even less perfect, more irregular, and perhaps more lovely.

    --Exquisite Decay

  9. Lost packets in your mangina? by Sir+Twat+of+Wellingt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My dear friend Wayne Hallat seems to have lost some IPX packets in his mangina. It was artificially enlarged to accept his dog's unit, and thus was too big for him to keep track of. Apparently there are three Mexican's living in there also, in a $20 million estate. That's all I have to say. Cheerio.

  10. You, sir... by Coldwar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...are a big geek.

    And I applaud you for it!

    Cool idea!

    -cw

  11. Re:Microsoft Patents the Broken Packet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is the funniest thing i have ever read

  12. Re:Microsoft Patents the Broken Packet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i was being sarcastic
    quit modding it up moron moderators

  13. Re:A real bit bucket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -1000 FLAMEBAIT

    You speak ill of the holy BSD TCP/IP stack.

  14. nerrrrrrdsss!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    come on alpha beta, let's kick those nerds' asses!

    NERRDDSS!!!!!!!!

  15. Oh no... not another UPS - related story by hriste22 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jocking for a funny post....

    Hriste22

  16. The Prodigal Packet by Newt-dog · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The weirdest returned email packet I received was from an email newsletter that I had sent out 5 years ago. It had been bouncing around since 1995 and came back to me as undeliverable 5 years later! Now I'm not sure how or why, but when it came back I opened it and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the date and the headers!
    I'm not sure if this is what you would call a malformed packet, but definitely a lost one that had returned home to roost!

    Newt-dog

    --
    My Doctor prescribed daily nasal saline irrigation, hehe