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Linux Powered Christmas Tree
_xeno_ writes "Ever wondered what happens if you cross a Christmas tree with a Linux server? You get ChristmasTree.WPI.EDU. It's a Red Hat 7.2 server running on an artificial Christmas tree as a decoration. You can make the tree play different songs (no, not your browser, the tree's soundcard) by clicking on the pictures. Apparently, the ability to control the tree lights is coming soon."
Just when you think you've seen it all, someone changes what "It" is.
Brings new meaning to the term "fire hazard."
"I think there is a world market for, maybe, five computers." __ IBM Chairman, 1943 __
Post of Posts!
Nyquil = Nectar of the devil
i would like one.
Please tell me the didn't choose Red Hat because Santa Claus wears one.
,
faeryman
i cant wait till the processor starts the tree on fire
admit defeat, live in decline, be the victim of our own design
I can barely believe this site is still up. I wonder what happens with race conditions in those music playing cgi scripts. I wish I was in the CCC Shop so that I could find out. I guess I'll just have to imagine the frantic beeps and wails as the mighty slashdot effect takes its toll on the tune.
Even Slashdot wants to hide some things
i've got a project now that school's out!
no HOWTO, no circuit diagrams, no Linux-controlled flashing lights, no war stories, just a few ... pictures.
move along now, nothing to see here.
- j
do not tell some girl that you have a linux powered christmas tree, and never ever give her the url for it with you standing next to it.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
an Xmas tree can withstand /.ing. Myabe this shows the power of GNU/Linux in webservering?
Sig:Why copyright isn't a fundamental human right
First tree in history to be slashdotted?
Yeah, but does it run...
Oh, wait. I guess it does. Anyway, stand by for the incoming "imagine a Beowulf cluster..." jokes. I'm going to huddle in a corner now, trying to figure out how to get my outdoor Christmas lights up on my RH server.
They that would sacrifice their
wow, and i thought i procrastinate studying.
www.hamjudo.com
has a webfridge,
its the oldest running webpage I know of.
also has "Wave to the cats" and "check pauls hottub"
How long do you think it will take them to unplug the speakers?
This reminds me of a Jersey Mike's that got one of those stupid singing bass things. I couldn't help but notice the tremendously annoyed looks on their faces when customers would walk in and push the red "press me" button.
The next day the fish was gone.
I'm also surprised it isn't slashdotted yet.
Lets count the seconds until the
4... 3... 2... 1...
I posted to
I'm all for Geek-Power and everything, but that's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Blah.
So, how long before the tree gets /.-ed? "Yeah, I was crusing the 'net, and I crashed a tree!" 'Tis the season, I guess :)
Merry Christmas all!
Joe
could slashdot reporting get any worse.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Or would that be a Beowulf forest?
"I think he was truly surprised at how little I cared about how big a market the Mac had" - Linus on Jobs
I've been thinking about this long and hard (for about a second and a half) and as thinking what this could mean for other religious festivals...
;)
The Muslims already have a head start.. emacs can do the calendar conversions in its code to the lunar year, thus killing the debate on which day Ramadan starts on. exactly. (There as debate on whether it was the 16th or the 17th of Nov. when it started.) Oh, as long as everything is in
Zulu.
It would help out the Orthodox Jews, who are forbidden from the use of anything technologic on the Sabbath. After all, they did nothing; the system did it all by itself. The menorah would be lit at the right time every night of Hanukkah, and the best part is that there's a decreased risk of fire with LED lights.
Now, how to help the pagans... webcamming the ceremonies may increase their cash stock.. especially if their the dead sexy ones that celebrate nude..
I used to be someone else. Now I'm someone better.
Real life is underrated.
I find this a great development.. Seeing as you can do all this easily WITHOUT linux.
What next.. a toaster running linux?
It still cooks toast.. BUT BUT, IT RUNS LINUX!!
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
But where is the monitor displaying xsnow?
I've been running that every December since 1994. Don't like the new Sanda art, though. Outta dig out my Sun SPARCstation IPC and see if I still have an ancient vesion of it installed.
I guess this was a slow news day.
Carpe Deez
So let's sing it again and spread some Christmas cheer!
/etc/passwd > list
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus town
cat
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
santa claus town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Think this code is on the tree?
--Josh
There are exactly 42,935,718 letter sized sheets in a square mile.
...my true love gave to me
A linux-powered Christmas Tree
I use Macs to up my productivity, so up yours Microsoft!
Don't get me wrong I usually love hacked stuff, portable 2600, tetris on a building, laser mame etc. But this is shite. Take a pentium out of a case and throw it into a tree, big deal. Anyone want to see my linux bookcase?
I cannot believe the russian chappies freedom doesn't make the front page but this does, arrgh.
It must be hell in there... songs playing all the time. Wonder why it isn't slashdotted yet...? Maybe Plastic Tree + Linux = unslashdottable.
How does the treeserver react to soooo many people picking songs? Does it make a playlist? Or does it simply switch?
Everything is mainstream now.
Santa Claus riding on penguins
The authors basically decided to use a Christmas tree as a case for a computer instead of an actual case. Could we all not just set a small tree on top of our cases and have a similar effect? Anyone could wrap the guts of their PC around a christmas tree, but what is the value of that? It becomes a delayed action fire hazard that turns the computer lab to ashes.
I wonder how it sounds playing "Silent Night" several thousand times in parallel through ONE sound card... sequentially would be stupid, it'd still play on next year's Xmas.
They'll surely have their reason to postpone the ability to control its lights.
Seems that they've reduced the load on the server by caching the pages. The server tacks this little piece of info onto the end of every header...
Via: 1.1 webcacheB06 (NetCache NetApp/5.2R1D5)
activate(SPY_CAM,1,cam1);
cam1.monitor(BOYS,GIRLS);
if (BOYS == "good")
{
give(presents, BOYS);
}
if (GIRLS == "good")
{
give(presents, GIRLS);
}
else
{
give(coal, BOTH);
}
It's not a "linux-powered christmas tree". It's a tree with a computer placed on it. Just a computer without a case. A "linux-powered christmas tree" would mean that the tree is powered by linux. This is not the case as you can cleary see. Linux is not powering the tree in anyway, the tree is just sitting there.
Nothing fancy here....move along.
Also, a "Christmas" tree has ornaments, lights, tinsel...christmasy things....this tree has styrofoam and other computer junk to decorate it.
It's just a tree with a computer in it.
The Grinch has a new excuse for stealing trees this season
All those Slashdot who-geeks perhaps, know the reason
feel free to continue...
Chuck buddy... you are in dire need of a woman.
http://windows.scares.us
Honestly, just imagine 80,000 attempts at starting "Silver Bells" that get no further than the first three notes. His office mates are gonna kill him.
Carousel is a lie!
This is a HOAX people!
Actually, I'd prefer a computer UNDER the tree, rather than wrapped around it... :)
-Evan.
Is it just me, or does the close up pictures show the CPU fan not spinning?
My email addy? should be easy enough.
They will probably be the only thing that his officemates will ENJOY taking down after the holidays. That is, after they lock him up and make him listen to Christmas Carols changing rapidly for 10 days straight.
I think its running the Secure Ornament Server.
SOS
Rob.
Well after 4 years and $125,000 I can honestly feel proud about something my school did. Even if not directly sponsored by the school. Probably the first time WPI has been /.ed too.
It is a Pentium 100 with 64MB RAM, running Red Hat Linux 7.2.
I wonder how long it takes this site to get slashdotted. Any bets? 10 minutes max.
-Vic
Someone stuffed the guts of a computer into a tree.
How is this news? This is just as retarded as the guy who stuffed a server into a pumpkin. There's nothing special about it.
If this setup could control the lights, or if wiring the bulbs up so that interacting with them would play different music, then it might be interesting.
But until then, it's just a computer in a tree. Yay. I'll go and stuff an old 486 into a bird feeder and get a frontpage spot on Slashdot!
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
If it ran Microsoft Windows, it would be sure to fall down and then catch of fire. Microsoft would then come out and say it was a feature, but then wouldn't give much detail on why the feature exists.
Running Linux, if it crashes it can climb back up on to the table itself without the administrator being there.
Seriously, why the fuck would you want to do this? It is boring, it serves no useful purpose, and it probably took a decent amount of effort.
Oh, wait - this must be their new l33t w4r3z server. Since the last one got confiscated, they figured hiding it in a Christmas tree might help.
or is that guy like a total goober? i mean, it's cool to have the skills to do that, but, i mean, shit, come on.
then again, i probably shouldn't talk. i'll be like that in about 6 or 7 years too
Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?
Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"
Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?
I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?
Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?
That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?
Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.
No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.
________________________________________
READER COMMENTS
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.02 19:01 (#2644105)
this is good shit man
by Dark_Cobra87 on 2001.12.01 23:03 (#2642180)
Oops, forgot to check that Taco-snot option...
by Fecal Troll Matter on 2001.12.01 20:55 (#2641791)
Mmmmmmm, Taco Sauce...
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
by ArchieBunker on 2001.12.01 20:19 (#2641679)
I love trolling but this shit is getting old, fast. At least start mixing them up a little bit. How about the 'How OSM was Freed' series?
http://www.naawp.org/
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.01 8:37 (#2640602)
Stop posting this! I've got hangover and Taco Snotting doesn't make me feel any better.
I'm really glad that Taco Snotting is illegal here in Europe.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.30 1:01 (#2634213)
Get a life you loser! Don't you have anything better to do than insult CmdrTaco and the gay community? We are not perverts, we are human beings just like you. So give it a rest!
by perdida on on 2001.11.27 14:13 (#2618764)
Shut up you asshole.
I am not great, I am merely adequate. I live in adequacy.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.26 22:22 (#2616035)
You weiner trool!
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)
try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)
WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...
CmdrTaco
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)
A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
However...
To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.
Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).
I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)
Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)
oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)
for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!
by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)
WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?
-Trollaxor
by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)
You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin
"Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...
by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)
Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?
Excellent FP, sir.
This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)
omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)
GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!
But.
Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?
thanks
by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)
I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.
by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)
You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.
by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)
Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.
--
CNN declares War on Islam!
Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)
This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!
by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)
Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!
For more info check out this
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)
add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)
and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com
other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!
by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)
Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
--
WIL WHEATON DOT NET
by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)
Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:
From: malda@slashdot.org
To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
Subject: were where you last friday?
I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.
--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)
You finding Ling-Ling's head?
by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
---
All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...
by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)
I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the
I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)
No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. .
by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)
The WIPO Troll
Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)
Oh, man that's just sick !
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)
TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place.
by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)
what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured
by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)
Where the fuck do I sign up?!
- I throw rocks at retarded kids
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)
this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.
by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)
OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)
dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)
horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com
Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!
by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)
+5, Arousing
For more info check out this
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)
WINNER>
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)
I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)
you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!
WIPO trolls > linux
________________________________________
J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
My favorite parts of the picture are actually the basketball hoop hanging directly above the workbench, and of course, the rolling monitor stand that promotes bad posture when working on that server its connected to. Man, it looks like my work area. Are we related?
What will the kids do for gifts when he crashes?
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
...and what's It seems weird and strange to me. It'll happen to you...
Give me all that you've got
Fill my pockets, hand it over, do not conserve
Rich making poor is all I want to be
I profit, embezzle, cold cash for me
I must burn in hell, suffer and pay for my sins
But Gods the one who's losing, Satan always wins!
Do you really think they are going to leave the speakers on while half a zillion Slashdot readers bombard their playlist ?
Are things at American universities getting better or worse. 15 years ago when I was in college, when we wanted to have fun we went out and got beer, lots of beer and got drunk. Now in 2001 people have fun by turning poor harmless evergreens into web servers, wha-whooo!!!! They probably will feel better tomorrow than I felt the day after and this was probably an educational rather than brain cell drowning experience, but is this progress????
An ugly remote controlled jukebox!
And soon it will have light control? Like I did with my user port hack on a Commodore 64?
Wow, cutting edge here...
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
Wait, I don't get it. If I don't want a date I shouldn't tell her about the tree or if I do want a date I shouldn't tell her about the tree. Either way, I'll probably just tell her my wood is computerized.
"Me mule wouldn't work in the mud. So I had to put seventeen bullets in 'er!" - Willy
I'll bet Charles R Anderson and the rest of the netops/ex-netops crew (yes that means you frank, phro, kozer, sean etc.) are coming all over each each other about excitement of being on slashdot!
That's literally the sound of a thousand terrible slashdotters setting their Christmas tree on fire...
I like to "snot" on things. I masturbate slowly, spooge on my hands, slurp up my own semen, and then sneeze it back out my nose onto my own testicles. It comes out all bubbly and mixed with mucus!
Thank you for listening.
look at that fat fucking ugly geek standing next to it
They could not even print out christmastree.wpi.edu
This looks like a 4 doughnut project to me.
Pick unlikely object. Take non-functional motherboard and hang it from said object. Take photos of motherboard hanging from object. Put photos on website. Submit story to /. that you've created the first website-on-an-[object].
:)
Snow - Joke Thing
I was driving home (why oh why)
Subconscious mind telling me I tripped up in me own lies
Six and seven in the morning and you know me can't stop
I could reach back home or atop of the barber shop
Cause that's my sure thing when I met that thing had to hit that thing
What a joke thing
Why did I do the what a joke thing? Come on
What a joke thing, baby
Come make me do the what a joke thing? Hey now!
First she rocked me, then she rolled me
The she rubbed me, then she hold me
What a joke thing
Smoking in her room (high so high)
The sun rolls up across the morning floor too soon
Honey now you know me, but you know me can't stay
Had you tuggin' on my shirt but blew a kiss anyway
Cuz you're my sure thing and I can't go by, and I can't go by
Now why you wanna know why you don't see me around
Got me caught up in some traffic way cross town
An' you're my sure thing and no not a joke, no no no not a joke
What a joke thing
Why did I do the what a joke thing? Come on
What a joke thing, baby
Come make me do the what a joke thing? Hey now!
First she rocked me, then she rolled me
The she rubbed me, then she hold me
What a joke thing
On my way back home (my oh my)
Guilty conscious mind just seems to roam
Now if you hear this song and you know you can laugh
She had me sitting outside in the middle of glass
It's a joke thing, and I left that ring what a stupid thing
What a joke thing
Why did I do the what a joke thing? Come on
What a joke thing, baby
Come make me do the what a joke thing? Hey now!
First she rocked me, then she rolled me
The she rubbed me, then she hold me
What a joke thing
A big thanks goes out to Snow for making this all possible.
If this tree falls down with nobody around, does the 'Net notice?
A Pentium 100 with 64 megs of RAM draped around a frickin' Christmas tree is handling the Slashdot effect where many other sites running on much beefier hardware have failed. Cripes.
Now I have yet another use for the AOL, MSN, etc. and all my old Technet subscription CDs that came in the mail! ;-).
Now, I can decorate the tree so much that nobody will tell if it's artificial
HoHoHo!
db
Cig:
ôô
Looks like the tree finally got slashdotted. I can not pull up the page.
Hey hang some more memory ornaments and maybe another CPU ornament you are looking a little bare.
I guess if one were to fall, it probably would make some noise ("Jingle Bells... Jingle Bells...") whether or not anyone was around.
Thank you for reading One Man's Opinion. No participation necessary. Offer void where deemed by law or PATRIOT Act.
I wonder what those equations were on the board behind the tree. These guys are true geeks if they used some sort of formula to calculate the details in setting this up.
You ever wonder what it sounds like to be slashdotted? They will soon find out!
Greg
Life is like pants... fit in or you don't fit in.
I agree with that faggot taco now, moderate unfunny shit -5.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
No direct line of sight to the tree, but you can
:)
see the lights draped around the room, controllable via the webpage, and viewed live via webcam.
http://206.54.177.105. The Xmas lights are in the living room. I'm sure you geeks can figure it out.
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
The sad thing is that this is yet another hoax.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
--
Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
"If Santa gives me coal, I'll use it to burn his @$$ when he comes down the chiminey next year!" - spoiled child
Hey - as a chick I have to say that this while this isn't the most attractive odd project I've seen it's infinitely more attractive then "watch me roll around in the mud with 10 other guys chasing a dead pig" pictures.
It's a bit odd and not that technically challenging - but at least he's trying.
I don't have a solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
Here I am reading all this about my Christmas tree which was done by my workstudy just to annoy me, I'm sure. Thanks Paul!!! I just turn off the damn speakers and him have his fun. I mean hell... Paul's a good employee... If he wants to build a Christmas tree with a PC in it, I guess I can deal. BTW, the basketball hoop is fun, but what you can't see is all the magnets we ripped out of dead hard drives that are stuck to the ceiling :P
Man I need a vacation!
Scott....
Ever wondered what happens if you cross a Christmas tree with a Linux server?
No.
It can't really be serving off of that board. I mean, slashdotters can 'slashdot' even highend equipment. Yet, a Pentium 100 with only 64 megs is taking the punishment???
Yeah right.
some yuppy stripped a computer, threw it in a tree, and put ?Linux? on it.
Who cares if it is "linux powered". I mean by badly using that term you guys are suggesting that Linux is only good for powering exotic little projects and not mainstream desktop users.
Maybe I should strip my computer and put it in a fish tank.... Then it will be a fisktank with windows?
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Man this thing sucks. Throw a motherboard in a tree and run linux on it and watch idiots loose it. "Oh man, it runs linux...sweet"...As if running linux matters - its a damn christmas tree. Nothing windows couldn't do. What a shitty post.
There's a big yellow thing in the sky. It's called the sun. Check it out sometime!
but can it sync with my palm pilot?
FAG!
Aye aye aye aye, I am the Frito bandito.
So if this tree crashes, and there is no admin there to recover it - does it make sound?
This is mega retarded! I wouldn't post pictures of that piece of junk. He didn't even make it look cool. It's like he just threw some crap parts and cables on a fuckin tree and said "Hey if I claim its a Linux server,I could be on /."
As has already been posted numerous times - this isn't much of a hack - a server out of the case sitting in a fake tree - YAWN...
/. and watch it melt down!
So, here is a free project - do it this year (not much time left, but I bet somebody could do it), or next - or whenever...
Get a piece of plywood or cardboard, cut it out in the shape of a christmas tree. Paint it (green for the tree, brown trunk, maybe some ornaments, or not).
Arrange a buttload of LEDs - red, green, yellow (and maybe blue if you are rich) - on the tree, by drilling holes (or, if you cut out the tree from pegboard, it is pre-drilled!) - now, here is where you can go wild:
1. Arrange them in a dense grid - and hook them up to the server to play tetris, etc (you know the routine). Add a web-cam, plus MP3 xmas songs through the sound card. Or use a SBC running Linux - or something.
2. Arrange them randomly, and have strings pulsing and flashing to the music. Maybe do a double "tree" - with two pieces of pegboard at right angles, and careful wire arrangement (to make it look like decorations as well?), and have the tree spin on a turntable (power would have to be applied via batteries and and SBC, and a wireless NIC).
Remember the web cam!
Post it to
Come on, someone should build this...soon!
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
Hey man, what's your problem?
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"A mind is a terrible thing to lose."
He has the look that he just pinched a loaf.
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This is your christmas tree -- This is your christmas tree on Linux!
Bo
Odin hung on the world tree for 7 days, what of this poor pentium? I wonder what wisdom it will gain?
five Goatse links!!
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You are an idiot.
Worst. Implementation. Ever.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Um, yeah, my dorms rooms christmas lights are all controlled by my debian box. Not only is my system controlling over 3000 total christmas lights, two four foot long black lights and my sound system, but it runs debian too! What more do you want.
Ok, ok. I've got a fever for more lighting, and the only perscription is some LED christmas lights and some ropelight, and god damn it, if I want LED christmas lights and ropelight, i'll get some. i should be scooping a bunch up post christmas.
Now all I need is a generator for my dorm room.
Myren
Another example of something stupid RH dont need in their OS. I hope they dont start distributing with this in it?
Ill stick with BSD, nice, clean, simple.
I have 6->8 proceses running on startup and 51M of 64M free, i like that.
I've been thinking recently about adding some red blue and green strands to my otherwise white christmas light collection.
The color balance would probably suck, as I highly doubt the R B and G strands would all be the same intensity. I'd probably have to make a photoshop Curves adjuster for my homebrew PWM (scenix/ubicom microcontroller hooked to serial port).
On a last note, anyone know how bright LED christmas lights are compared to normal ones? I'd like to stop generating heat / wasting energy, but if i have to buy three times as many lights its just not worth it ( especially when college is paying my insane power bill ).
My rooms next upgrade is a generator, so I can keep adding more toys.
Myren
and people who live on campus wonder why their internet connection sucks... it's because netops spends their time on christmas trees!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Josh? I believe that this is the very tree. To think, we put presents under that tree almost 4 years ago to the day. How it has grown. I wonder if Edwin will read about the this from Kenya. And it was 95 and Linux, not 3.1. He considered it essential maintenance to reinstall Windows every month.
I know some chicks that would really dig this tree. If the linux box could control the lights and sound of the tree, they would want to know what and how I did it.
What a better way to get two geeks together around a geeky tree?
What really scrares me is what you see if you look closely on the whiteboard behind the three:
Words like "WinXP", "Windows 2000" and "OSR2" appear if you zoom in with the Gimp.
I'm not being paranoid, am I ?
Conceptually, it's a really great idea
but actually, it's a damned ugly Christmas tree.
Last year, a friend of mine used a SuSE 7.0 box to control about 20 sets of Christmas lights all over his house - it was truely schweet!
Listening for the sound of the coming rain...
How do you fix that percussive sounding audio on this iMac 333MHz OS 8.6 96RAM Apple Computer?...
The notes don't sound right, they sound like percussion rhythm only.
Cheers!
oo__ don@saklad.org
I'm not actually sure if this has been mentioned. But every time I try to view the page with Galeon 1.01 it crashes with a Segfault. Very Weird!!
Here's an Interactive Christmas Tree you can turn the lights on and off (4 different types)
http://www.xmas4all.net/
Ok. Who rooted the Christmas tree box?
...but this appears to be a J O K E. You know, ha ha?
Maybe the thing that would scare the girl most is wondering where he is going to put linux next.
It's gone, but there are still plenty of stale links to it that can be found with a Google search.
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About the only thing that could improve the geeky charm of that tree would be to use up some of his AOL CD collection. Common, he's got to have one.
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Is there a psychological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
some idiot hangs a mboard on a tree & its a step forward for linux.
sad.
Yeah, it also says "X-Terminals" and if you look really close, you can see some of the numbers we call for RMAs on a regular basis. ;)
lol. look carefully. I wrote all those things. "WinXP == ghey" "Win95 OSR 2 called Win97 == ghey" "x-terminals == ghreat" They have been scribbled on and may say something different by now...but who knows. We support Microsoft at work...but i'll be damned if people think I promote it :)
I just went downstairs to the CCC Shop. it was locked up and when i put my ear up to the door, i heard nothing but the whir of a few cooling fans.
I think we could pull this off... :)
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Considering the server is right there on the tree, controlling it via the parallel port might be the way to go.