Linux Powers Digital Muppets

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 30, 2002 @05:33AM from the probably-a-little-more-expensive-than-socks dept.

Darren Alcorn writes "Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up to bring you digital animatronics through the use of Red Hat Linux." I bet thats a fun system to see in operation. The article is light on technical stuff, but discusses the computerized puppeteering system a little.

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Damn by unicron · 2002-04-30 05:34 · Score: 0, Funny

Imagine a beowulf cluster of Fraggles!

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Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
hmmm... by sugrshack · 2002-04-30 05:36 · Score: 5, Funny

kernel the frog

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I can't believe it's not lard!
1. Re:hmmm... by Stoutlimb · 2002-04-30 06:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I was under the impression that KERMIT has been around since the old UNIX days. Ms. Piggy is probably Redhat's new codename for all the bloatware that they package these days.
  
  Bork! Bork! Bork!
2. Re:hmmm... by craw · 2002-04-30 06:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Pings in Space!
  
  Fork! Fork! Fork!
Amazing Miraculous RedHat! by oldzoot · 2002-04-30 05:36 · Score: 4, Funny

RedHat has restored Jim Henson to life? I KNEW linux was miraculous ! !

Z

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enough is too much
heh by waspleg · 2002-04-30 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

one segfault ha ha ha
two segfaults ha ha ha
three segfaults ha ha ha

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Oscar the Grouch's new home by Hoi+Polloi · 2002-04-30 05:53 · Score: 2, Funny

And Oscar the Grouch now lives in a core dump.

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It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
OLLLLLLLLD by sinserve · 2002-04-30 06:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft has been powering the puppets in D.C for ages.

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already done by _ph1ux_ · 2002-04-30 06:06 · Score: 3, Funny

they've been doing this for years - look at this
Re:secure? by Graelin · 2002-04-30 06:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Dude, why would you want to r00t Snuffleupagus? That's disgusting...

OTOH, take a picture. We can make snuffle.cx

Mods: -55555 Grotesque
Grumble, gripe, grumble by BurritoWarrior · 2002-04-30 06:14 · Score: 4, Funny

The two grumpy guys up in the balcony are now Ballmer and Gates.
Old news..bleh by Bowie+J.+Poag · 2002-04-30 06:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Come on.... I've been using Kermit in Unix for close to a decade now.

;)

Cheers,

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Bowie J. Poag
Re:Misquote. by charon_on_acheron · 2002-04-30 06:41 · Score: 2, Funny

It's supposed to read:

He's dead Jim. I can't do anything for him.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer (as he ducks his two heads under one foreleg, and kicks Jim with his rear leg).
Mupped and Jim Henson team up by Gavitron_zero · 2002-04-30 06:54 · Score: 2, Funny

"Red Hat and Jim Henson have teamed up to bring you digital animatronics through the use of Red Hat Linux."
It's all coded in perl with the Mod::Ressurection package.