Christmas is Coming

Couple of Christmas bits to get ya in the spirit: We have a link to Planet Christmas as well as the tech details and even some danger. This thing features 96,790 miniature Christmas lights, 7.2 miles of wire to connect everything, 110 strobe lights, the 8' inflatable snowmen, handled by 425 computer controlled circuits. A slightly less ambitious project was submitted by apago. This project lets winamp control christmas lights, complete with schematics for the serial interface and source code for the plugin.

Comments

Has everyone forgotten the Dec 25 Birthday?

[Dimensio]

All this talk of finding new ways of being flashy and new during the holidays and so little talk of the important birthday celebrated on December 25. Really, would it kill you to pay some respect to the very important individual whose birth is celebrated yearly on that one day of the year?

I mean honestly, you all give each other gifts but I, the birthday boy, don't get so much as a card from you!

Re:Has everyone forgotten the Dec 25 Birthday?

[SuperDuG]

That's right ... And by golly people ... we need to go back to our churches, and our religious leaders, because we've forgotten what christmas is really all about!!!

The birth of baby santa claus

Re:Has everyone forgotten the Dec 25 Birthday?

[Dimensio]

No, I was talking about me, though that point seems to have been lost on everyone who saw my first two sentences and assumed I was going off on a religious rant.

I am aware that there is another important birthday on December 25, and yes, I will be getting my grandfather a card.

Wow

[daeley]

Imagine a Rudolph cluster of those!

Xmas code

[TeleoMan]

Don't forget:

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus town


cat /etc/passwd > list
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
}


Merry Xmas, everyone! :-)

Fixed version

[Otto]

/. doesn't like > signs.. ;)

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus <north pole >town

cat /etc/passwd >list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
santa claus <north pole >town

who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}

Top 10 things I wanted for Christmas

[TeleoMan]

Top 10 things I wanted for Christmas ... but didn't get :(

1. triple caffeinated penguin mints

2. semis@slashdot.org ;)

3. A Hemos action figurine

4. "Fear the Penguin" T-Shirt signed by bill.

5. one of them things from fufme.com

6. a new hotmail exploit on Bugtraq

7. my shell to say "Merry Christmas - jackass" when I logged in

8. "slashdot me, baby" boxers.

9. a /dev/null that gives - and not takes

10. A Picachu voodoo doll

X10

[cnkeller]

Now we know whose been clicking on all those X10 pop-ups....

Merry Christmas

[Jebediah21]

Nice to see PlanetChristmas gets the wonderful gift of a /.ing this year.

bah

[ghostshadow-tec.net]

Only kick I get out of xmass is making the kids behave by saying "Now Behave Otherwise Santa Will Eat One Of His Reindeer." Well it works till the 25th