Big Berlin Blinkenlichten

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Posted by Hemos on Monday December 10, 2001 @01:35AM from the looking-pretty dept.

karm13 writes "The Chaos Computer Club has made a huge display using the 8 top floors of a house in Berlin with 18 windows each as a present to themselves and Berlin for their 20th birthday. You can submit animations on the Blinkenlights project page, and even play pong with a mobile phone!"

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First Post by MrSparkle · 2001-12-10 01:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 01:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's official: Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
[H]ardOCP had this 3 days ago by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 01:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

why do I still visit this site, anyway. Oh, yeah, for the repeats.
Re:Blinkenlights by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 01:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Reminds me of the great toy/game GFingerPoken.
bah by nomadic · 2001-12-10 01:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Does anyone else find the term "blinkenlights" extremely annoying? And no, I don't really care that it was in the jargon file ("oooh, the jargon file").
1. Re:bah by nomadic · 2001-12-10 02:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Does anyone else find the term "blinkenlights" extremely annoying? And no, I don't really care that it was in the jargon file ("oooh, the jargon file").
  
  I was marked down redundant for that? Didn't see anyone else express their annoyance, but I'm glad I'm not alone...
2. Re:bah by gazbo · 2001-12-10 03:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Ah, go on then. I'll stick up for you. He's right, it's not redundant (maybe offtopic...)
  
  I am a big fan of (most of) the jargon file, but people seem to wave it around as validation of anything they say. I can't help but feel that if it weren't for the jargon file, we wouldn't have as many tossers writing, for example, FUD in every post:
  
  A: I like pine because it's smaller than Mutt
  B: Stop spreading FUD
  
  Not very appropriate, but hey! It's in the jargon file.
  
  The jargon file is very interesting, informative and amusing on the whole, but that doesn't mean that to be a true hacker you have to religiously use each entry (in fact, IIRC, I believe the editor suggests that such use is a way of discovering a newbie) And blinkenlights is simply a lame ass joke, the sort of thing I get sent by email all of the time, and delete after a brief glance.
  
  There we go, nomadic, I'll take some of the heat for you. I've never cared too much for karma.
3. Re:bah by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 03:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Blikenlights didn't come out of the Jargon File you blithering fool!
  
  Who the fuck cares what you think anyway? Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights Blinkenlights!
Re:Blinkenlights by iomud · 2001-12-10 01:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why does that remind me of jar jar binks for some reason?
Re:Hack of the year winner? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

IP over Avian carriers was first proposed 11 years ago.
Re:Blinkenlights by not-quite-rite · 2001-12-10 02:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'll take your word for it, and say I stand corrected :)
Probably in very bad taste but.... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

someone should make up an animated gif of a plane crashing into the building and exploding.
1. Re:Probably in very bad taste but.... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  What fool marked this as offtopic.
  
  The building uses a propreitary format to play their movies on. They have provided tools to convert to that format from gif.
  
  I assume the originator of the post was implying that someone should make up a quick animation to put on on the building, depicting a plane crashing into it, and yes it is in bad taste, but it made me smile.
Re:It should have won the Turner Prize. by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just wait until someone submits goatcx ascii art to the lights...
Re:yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Why was the article scored offtopic?
They really have pong running.
Do moderators even read the articles before they give the score?
Calling all trolls! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There is a Japanese version of slashdot at slashdot.jp which is just WAITING for first posts, trolls, and crap flooding. ;-)

All the better if your browser can render Japanese and you can understand it. êÍÂàslashdot.jpÅfgf[fÄéæBSy ©çI

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Re:yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Of course not. The moderations have nothing to do with the accuracy of the statements, but are influenced by how pissed off a moderator is at life on that day.
Re:Sorry, old news... by Lispy · 2001-12-10 02:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

hmm...well, i realized...but one cant always win...
References by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 02:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Chapter 2.35 Case 3
Chapter 3.54 Case 2
Chapter 4.52 Case 3
Chapter 5.40 Case 2
Chapter 6.51 Case 3
Chapter 7.64 Case 2
Re:The best part... by gazbo · 2001-12-10 03:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah, mod this up. It's not like its in the post or anything.
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Re:Blinkenlights by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-10 03:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Not-quite-rite eh? Yup, thats definatly you!

Where have you younguns been? Blinkenlights has been around longer than you have you fool! Yeesh!