LoTR , Linux, and Database Management

minus23 writes: "Very interesting article over at Digitalanimators.com, talking about some of the challenges faced by the crew working on the second installment in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Interesting bits include managing an off-site database of 45TBs, Linux workstations from IBM, 1400 processors, and the animation methods to be used on Gollum. It's a good thing. :)"

Comments

Trick or treat

[Anonymous Coward]

give me something good to eat or SMELL MY FEET!

Re:Trick or treat

[Anonymous Coward]

Name
pico - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer

Syntax
pico [ options ] [ file ]

Description
Pico is a simple, display-oriented text editor based on the Pine message system composer. As with Pine, commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context-sensitive help is provided. As characters are typed they are immediately inserted into the text.

Editing commands are entered using control-key combinations. As a work-around for communications programs that swallow certain control characters, you can emulate a control key by pressing ESCAPE twice, followed by the desired control character, e.g. "ESC ESC c" would be equivalent to entering a ctrl-c. The editor has five basic features: paragraph justification, searching, block cut/paste, a spelling checker, and a file browser.

Paragraph justification (or filling) takes place in the paragraph that contains the cursor, or, if the cursor is between lines, in the paragraph immediately below. Paragraphs are delimited by blank lines, or by lines beginning with a space or tab. Unjustification can be done immediately after justification using the control-U key combination. String searches are not sensitive to case. A search begins at the current cursor position and wraps around the end of the text. The most recent search string is offered as the default in subsequent searches.

Blocks of text can be moved, copied or deleted with creative use of the command for mark (ctrl-^), delete (ctrl-k) and undelete (ctrl-u). The delete command will remove text between the "mark" and the current cursor position, and place it in the "cut" buffer. The undelete command effects a "paste" at the current cursor position. The spell checker examines all words in the text. It then offers, in turn, each misspelled word for correction while highlighting it in the text. Spell checking can be cancelled at any time. Alternatively, pico will substitute for the default spell checking routine a routine defined by the SPELL environment variable. The replacement routine should read standard input and write standard output. The file browser is offered as an option in the "Read File" and "Write Out" command prompts. It is intended to help in searching for specific files and navigating directory hierarchies. Filenames with sizes and names of directories in the current working directory are presented for selection. The current working directory is displayed on the top line of the display while the list of available commands takes up the bottom two. Several basic file manipulation functions are supported: file renaming, copying, and deletion.

Author
Timecop timecop@japan.co.jp
#linuxwarez on EFNet

I see Gollum...

[awx]

...but where's Coke?

A Boy and his Uncle

[Horny Smurf]

Little Rob Malda was the pride and joy of his parents, being an only child. After Rob was born his mother couldn't have anymore children. Rob was always treated like royalty. So when his parents were going to be going out of town, he was shocked to find out that his parents were not going to let him stay at home by himself. "Rob, you are only 15 years old, you cannot stay home by yourself". and that was all they had to say, he knew that there was no way of winning this argument. He had been expecting to throw a big party while they were away, but now all plans were completely crushed! "Your uncle will be here at around 5, and we will be leaving at 5:30. we left the number to the hotel on the refrigerator". Well at least it wasn't too bad, Uncle Jon Katz was always really cool, he has always been my favorite!. Later on that night we started to make dinner. My uncle was an amazing chef. he could make a meal out of anything. I had always wondered why Uncle Jon never married or had any children. I decided to ask him. "Uncle Jon, why don't you have any children, or a wife?". "well to tell you the truth Rob, i actually never plan on getting married, or having children". He told me how he was content with how his life was now, and he didn't want to change anything. So thinking nothing of it, I decided to go up to my room and listen to some music. I heard my uncle walking up the stairs, he went into the bathroom, which was right beside my room. I heard him yelling for me about 15 minutes later. He asked me to grab him a wash cloth and a towel, he forgot to grab them. I knocked on the door, and he told me to come on in. I walked in the door and placed the wash cloth and towel on the sink next to the shower. I turned my head with no preconceived ideas. I could see my uncles body through the frosted glass of the shower. at one point his body came very close to the glass, and i could almost make out the details of his well built body. He asked me to hand him the wash cloth, and as he reached his arm out of the sliding glass door of the shower, i could see that his head was covered with shampoo, and his eyes were closed so he wouldn't get any in his eyes. This was my chance to get a real view! With the sliding door slid part way open, i walked up quietly so he wouldn't know how close i was to the shower. I maneuvered my head to the side and just below his arm so that could see his huge cock hanging between his legs! I couldn't believe what i was doing! I had never felt such emotions in my life! I was startled as my uncle asked again "Rob, are you still there, can you hand me the wash cloth?" I said nervously " sure unc!, here ya go". I quickly handed him the wash cloth and walked out of the bathroom. I went into my room and layed down onto my bed. I started thinking about what i had just seen. My uncles cock hanging between his legs, water dripping from it. I started to become erect, I couldn't believe it. I started to play with myself as i thought of that big piece of meat. I heard the water cut off as my uncle was obviously finished with his shower. A few minutes later i heard a knock on my door, i quickly covered myself with my blanket, as i had still been playing with myself." come in!" I said nervously. My uncle walked into the room, all i could think about was what was hanging between his legs. he asked me if i had a minute. I told him sure, and he walked into my room and sat down on the bed next to me. My cock was going crazy!! Here my uncle was sitting on my bed, an amazing body, and all he had on was a towel!!! a thin piece of cloth separating me from his wonderful dick! I asked him what he wanted to talk about. His response startled me! He asked me if i got a good look of him while he was in the shower. My heart started to pound uncontrollably!! I asked him what he was talking about. He told me that he happened to open his eyes for a minute while i was in there. He saw me looking through the crack of the sliding door on the shower. He told me not too worry. He said that he completely understands. That i was just curious. He told me how he used to look at his older brothers when he was younger. He pulled his leg up and i could see the very tip of his cock sliding out from under his towel he had around his waist. I was getting really hot. I asked him if i could see it again. he said that i could as long as i didn't tell anyone. I agreed and he proceeded to pull his towel off of his waist. My heart literally skipped a beat as i saw it jump! I reached my hand out and started to feel it. It started to grow with amazing speed! I couldn't believe how big it was getting, i thought that it would never stop growing! I started to cup his huge balls as I stroked his massive cock. He started to moan very loudly. I asked him if he would bend over so i could get a better look at his ass. He agreed and he bend over with his ass staring me right in the face! I started to rub his sphincter, as he moaned with pleasure i did it more vigorously. I pushed my face forward and stuck my tongue out. I started to lick his ass like i had never licked anything before. He tasted so good. I started to yank on his meat as i invaded his rectum with my hot moist tongue. I started licking up and down his ass crack. I loved it! Before i knew it i had my tongue in his rectum eating him like a pro! Then he stood up, and grabbed me, he flung me over onto my stomach and pulled my shorts off. I struggled a bit, but i couldn't move under his huge muscled arms. He told me he was going to fuck me, He said he was going to make me moan! I was afraid, His dick was way too big, there would be no way he could fit that thing in my ass. I told him to stop, but he ensured me that i would love it. He spit in his hand and rubbed it onto the tip of his cock, then he started to finger my asshole, The sensation was amazing, i loved feeling his finger inside me, then there were two fingers. He told me to relax, if i relaxed then it wouldn't hurt. So i tried to relax as much as i could. I then felt the tip of his penis at my rectum. I felt a chill, and then with a thrust of his hips, the tip of it slid right in. I gasped as it went into my ass. I told him to pull out, it hurt so badly!! He told me to calm down. that the pain would go away if i just relaxed. So i buried my face deep into my pillow! The pain was not going away. Then after a couple of minutes he started to push in further, the pain was immense, but i found that the lust that i had inside of me was taking over. I started to enjoy it, the pain started to subside. I just gave in and told him to fuck me like a bitch! He started to pump faster and faster, he pulled out of my ass after about 10 minutes and grabbed me with his huge arms, he flipped me once more, back onto my back facing upwards at him, he stuck his cock right in my face and started to stroke it really fast and hard, His nuts started to jerk, and his face turned red!, all of a sudden he let out a loud moan, he began to cum all over my chest and my face. He told me to open my mouth. I did as he said, and he shot load after load of hot salty cum into my mouth. He stuck his ass over my dick and began to grind me. I could feel his course ass hair rubbing my cock. it felt amazing. He started grinding harder and harder. his asshole was rubbing right up against my cock. I reached my hand under his ass and rammed my finger in his ass. as i did that I had the biggest orgasm i had ever had in my life! I shot load after load of cum all over his ball sack, and the entrance to his rectum. He told me that I made a mess, and now it was time to clean it up. He brought his ass right up to my face and told me to clean it up with my tongue. I happily lapped um my creamy seed from his ass and balls. his dick was rock hard again, and as i licked his ass he shot his load one more time! all over my face. My face was completely covered with my uncles creamy hot spunk!! he stood up and told me to go take a shower. I couldnt believe what happened!! I got into the shower and was reflecting on what had just happened, I was in complete aww. I noticed that i had forgotten to grab a wash cloth. " Hey uncle, can you grab me a wash cloth!".

Re:Hi. Polka time!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?

actually, it is "Ziegenficken".

you're welcome.

annoying website

[josh crawley]

There's more than enough incongruities with the "article", but that's not what bugged me the most. That whole site was just a big ad. Ads were upon ads. And you then have that "News" block at the bottom. I started to think it was a porno ad or "viatamin" ad. It had that "Buy Now" type of lettering.

Point: Dont know if I quite trust these people for "news sources". Looks more like ad hell.

Trollling in the name of by poopbot

[Anonymous Coward]

Credits: Big Dogs Cock

Trolling in the name of
Some of those that boot Suse
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Trolling in the name of
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UCFPKF by poopbot

[Anonymous Coward]

How are things in the civilized world? You probably don't know who I am. That's
okay. I'm here to inform you of my mission, what I've found, and what I hope to
teach all of you.

I work for the United Christians Food for Poor Kids Foundation, and let me tell
you, there's a lot of poor kids in Afghanistan. As in most countries in the
Middle East, most people are unemployed, and therefore poor. And where there's a
lot of poor people, UCFPKF is needed.

UCFPKF always has the latest in technology. In this instance, we had access to
some Pentium 4's(r) 2GHz. Obviously, we needed an operating system that could
handle the power of Intel's beast. Unfortunately, we didn't have any computer
experts on hand up to the task, so it was going to be trial and error.

We'd heard good things about Linux and its "ACL's". Little did we know of its
incompatibility with modern hardware. It didn't even support Token Ring
networking, the newest form of Ethernet(r), which we require to always keep
in contact between bases. Also, it didn't seem to use SSE optimizations, which
when processing food amounts, are also very important. Also, there were
homo-erotic implications in the structure of Linux, which is strictly
unallowable in a Christian organization such as ours.

The next obvious step was to install Windows. We hesitated because we knew that
it was common knowledge that Windows crashed incessantly. Our experience was
less than stellar. It also didn't support Token Ring networking. Security is
important in this region because many people try to steal food, but "Windows
2000" (which I hear didn't even come out in 2000) doesn't even allow you to
have seperate permissions. Once again, the SSE optimizations were not used.

I was in a situation that seemed impossible. The two most famous operating
systems had failed me. I walked around the base in a dazed stupor. What was I
going to do for our ultra-important network? A boy saw me pouting and sighing,
and asked me what was wrong. I said nothing, but we exchanged names, and little
did I know, that young Junis had a gift for computers.

Junis saw me the next day, slaving away at the sparse terminal that "Windows
2000" makes you type in. He asked what I was doing with that primitive OS. I
laughed and told him that I was doing inventory. He ran to his village, into his
hut, and pulled out a box I had never seen before. The box said "SCO Xenix" the
front. I had never seen or heard of this Xenix before. But I soon learned that
Junis was a computer genius.

All we had to do was put the Xenix CD into the computer, and everything worked
like magic (not the devil's magic... good magic:) ). Our Token Ring network
integrated flawlessly with it. And it even used SSE optimizations. Well, me and
Junis are now on a new mission. We're spreading the word. It might not be the
word of the lord, but then again, maybe it is ;).

SCO Xenix: The Unix of Tomorrow.

Janet Milman
Network Administrator, UCFPKF
Afghanistan base

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