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A High-School Hacker's Notebook
An anonymous reader writes: "Remember those high-school lunchtimes, back in the day, when you and your computer-nerd friends would hang out by the Krunch Korral, discussing that cool computer game that you were all going to write? And one guy did the music, and one guy made the levels, and you wrote it all down in a notebook? Well, just in case you lost it, here's that notebook."
There have to be better ways to put those pages on the web than dozens of jpegs....
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
Mine was similar, but it wasn't a game, it was a business that sold pet supplies online. A friend of mine (a great puppeteer) thought of a good sock mascot. Then, we were going to spend all our money on 1 huge superbowl commercial. We were going to make millions!!!!
I also has a dream in which I would get a degree in computer science and make money!!!
I basically am about to get a degree in potato farming and the Irish Potato Famine just happened.
I know a guy that spent all his time making instruction booklets for games that didn't exist. It started getting scarey when he did one with a multi-dick hermaphrodite named 'George' who worked in a cheese factory and your goal was to cultivate a new form of yeast infection from the bacteria used to grow cheese.
There's a mirror right here
I've been out of high school for a long time and I still do that on my lunch breaks. And after work. On my coffee breaks. Before lectures. After lectures. While watching TV. Riding the bus. Walking down the street.
But not in bed. The girlfriend put the kibosh on that one early on.
Called "Dodge the Slashdotting 2002", and base it on personal experience.
if this was written in 1984 and the game consists of a big white circle being eaten by a big green circle, then I've been ripped off.
haha, now THAT's technology for you!..
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:7bbg_EjcxcEC: garote.bdmonkeys.net/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
/notebook page though
I can't find the
Im still in high school... and the only difference is that we sit around with our laptops and one person gets the 3D design, and another person does teh website, and another makes sure that we dont get sued for uninetntionally creating a game too similar to an existing one...
Well, it was created in 'klik'n'create' which was some sort of scripting language game creation tool, but hey, it was a working side scroller! Not much real programming happenned.
My delusions of designing video games started a bit earlier with my friends in like grade 5 or so. We'd draw out new levels for existing game franchises ie Mario, etc. We were going to try and make it and send it in to Nintendo and thought it would be magically good enough for our ideas to make it into a real game.
./!
Anyway I must still be delusional cause I'm starting my 4th year of formal game programming education this year, maybe I'll make a published game yet.
At any rate this reminded me of just how long I've been trying this game making stuff, Yay
It's gone. Too many jpegs? No mirror, no google cache, no nada. Just gone.
funny munging
And one guy did the music, and one guy made the levels, and you wrote it all down in a notebook? Well, just in case you lost it, here's that notebook."
Hmmm... that doesn't look like my handwriting.
"Chances of RHIC-induced Armageddon are exceedingly rare, but... you never know." - MIT Physicist Bob Jaffe
Then, he was weird. Now, he's probably considered a cutting edge avant-garde artist, hanging out at all the cool parties and dating a girl who looks like Laura Prepon. Or, he's still living in his parents' basement. At least he found a way to survive high school.
Freedom: "I won't!"
If you use IE don't even think about clicking on the above link. I just did and about 64 windows opened and my machine hung. I just lost some work. Thanks.
We were too busy fending off those big goons who tried to take our lunch money.
"Hey, I have an idea, but I have no skills, so I'm looking for people to do all the work and I just want all the credit! What, no takers? Open source sucks!"
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I wrote 20% of heaps of games. An early one was a text-mode based game on the Atari 800 with remapped character graphics, collision detection, etc... then I started playing a great new ground-breaking game and forgot all about it...
Rinse, lather, repeat for my entire life...
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People, the Slashdot effect is getting out of hand. We've now slashdotted a spiral-bound notebook? Someone must put an end to this madness!
I got this and none of the seemingly endless number of JPGs that made up the rest of the page. I'd say this much is apparent from the page design and willingness to submit to the Slashdot Effect.
-N
I've nothing to say here...
Teenagers, practising their skills, consider their 'work' worthy of historical note. Arrogance? Youth? Ites says: easy to make drawings in the sand. Ideas are cheap. Finish the job and you will deserve to be remembered.
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I think slashdot could help everyone out by doing the following.
1. Any time an article is submitted that refers to a non-news site (such as the one in this story), slashdot should automatically pull a copy of the page/story and put it somewhere in a temporary cache. The story would automatically generate the "slashdot cache" link and content when the article is posted.
2. The temporary cache that these web pages are pulled into only exist for the stories that are on the front page (or perhaps a day). After that specified time, the cache is flushed.
This code would be VERY simple to write. All it is is a simple screen scrape! A list of sites to not cache (such as yahoo news, cnn, etc.) could be kept in a simple text file.
Despite copyright laws, I think people that have sites that can't handle a slashdot load would prefer a copy of their content on slashdot as opposed to an effective DDOS. Both readers and site owners would be MUCH HAPPIER.
Just my 2c. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! IT IS VERY ANNOYING, ALMOST AS ANNOYING AS WHEN SOMEONE TYPES IN ALL CAPS.
You are an evil, evil little man.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
Remember when you were a kid and you had this cool idea for a video game, so you put it up on a website, but some big bully of a site came along, pushed you down in the mud, slashdotted your site and stole your lunch money?
I just graduated, but my notebook is scattered within icq logs and irc logs. Didn't read the article... but I'm sure its the same stuff as described.
My high school lunchtimes were either spent eating lunch, joking around with friends, doing homework or going off-campus to smoke pot with friends. Incidentally, none of my friends were computer nerds; I was pretty much the only computer nerd in my class (it was a small school, about 100 people per class). I never let computers define me... it was a hobby. Had I let my life revolve around computer (games|systems|hacking|programming), I probably would have found I had nothing in common with anyone at my school.
On the other hand, I think it would have been cool to have a couple geek friends in high school.
This was obviously a little off-topic, but I have tons of karma and that quip from the story topic made me think about it.
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A mate and myself talked about writing a couple of really cool games (well, we thought they were cool at the time).
One wouldn't have sold at all well outside Northern Ireland as nobody would understand the humour.
The other was based on the actions of an estranged young man around the time(1989) by the name of Michael. I can't remember the details of the incident but he decided to take pot shots at people in his town then turned his rifle on himself. We were going to call it Michaels Shoot-out Challenge.
Good job we didn't go through with it, we'd have been sued to b*ggery...
From my Autobiography - "Lifestyles of the Sad and Desperate"...
I remember doing exactly the same thing when I was in my early teens, although I did write quite a bit. I even had a response from one company that they were interested just before they vanished from existance.
At one point my friend and I managed to get a really cool ice hockey game written and ported to both a ZX Spectrum and C64, but both of us couldn't draw so we were waiting for some other guy to do the graphics he'd promised he'd do so we could finish.... that was over 15 years ago and we're still waiting!
It looks like things are in a similar state now, except with the Internet you are able to have a potential audiance of millions, not just a handful of friends in the playground. But it looks like the same situation of programmers not having that artistic connection to give their results the final polish they need to get them into the mainstream.
When I moved back from the States to England a few years ago I did look into getting a developers job at a few game houses, but wife became pregnant and all of a sudden a higher salary and (slightly moe) regular working hours became more important......
Am I the only one here who wondered more about what party to go to at the weekend and chatting up the girls ? And going to practice explicitly because it seemed to make you more attractive to women. Was I strange that as a 14 year old I was obsessed by breasts ?
:-)
Damn didn't realise I should have been worrying about other things
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Only we were going to make one of those uber special graphics demos that ran in 386 Protected Mode! oooooh, aaaah!
My friend who did the music was the only one with talent, so he eventually realized the rest of us weren't going to be mastering vector based 3D graphics engines in the middle of grade 11. However, I did end up learning how to write an assembly library and link it into a QuickBASIC program... that's something!
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Nintendo Power sponsored a contest around 12 or so years ago challenging its readers to come up with spiffy game concepts and submit them. They got some pretty incredible submissions that were incredibly detailed and highly original. The winner was a neat design by budding 14 year old artist Jeffrey Scott Campbell, who I believe went on to a career as a comic book artist. Some dedicated Nintendo junkie out there might still have the issue in question to verify.
Yeah... that there are a bunch of petty little people out there who care far to much about what fucking browser people use. Get a life people.
> I just did and about 64 windows opened and my machine hung.
"Slashdot Effect II: The server strikes back"?
We did something from high school notebooks to fruition. It was a wonderful Mac RPG called Atlas: The Gift of Aramai (Freeverse.com). Some times I would recommend keeping it all to paper. Especially if you and your unexperieced friends want to create something as content intensive as an RPG (go for a clever puzzle or something else that is repeatable.) :). I had to get new friends to do it though :(.
But after five years and 8 people cycled through the team I am proud to say that we did it. And what can I say we got from it? I learned that making games is tough and in the end pretty unrewarding. That is why I am starting a new one
Now my 14 year old son has one. Hell, he may end up like me. Jeez.. I better talk to that kid!
My buddy's kid is still in High School. He not only had these same dreams - he actually sat down with his buddy and hacked out about 50K lines of C++ to produce a playable 3D shooter. From scratch, no less. (Krikes - and I thought the 1000 line poker game I wrote in High School was somethin...)
Feed your sense of humor. It's dying a horrible, painful death!
well when i was in grade 6 we did somthing like that sept it was creating a virus and taking over the world. I just wanna see the bloody page
Okay, you got me. That was funny!
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The first time I ever heard of an AK-47 was that.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I keep a notebook with all the cool toys I'm going to get when I graduate from the university. I made my perfect pc, my ultimate car stereo, and pimp home theater. Problem is, since I'm graduating in Computer Science, they'll be on paper for a while.
Anybody here remember Wolfedit, the graphical editor for Wolfenstein 3d? A friend of mine and I remade the entire game into "JOckenstein 3d" using only wolfedit and a 286, arming the enemies with white baseball caps, baseball bats and tennis rackets. Bosses got football helmets and whistles. The best part though, were the "swooshtikas", made from four Nike swooshes. ahh the angst of it all danitor
This code would be VERY simple to write.
It sounds like you're assuming the problem is technical. I think it is not. Judging by Rob Malda's comments surrounding the subscription thing, Slashdot's largest expense is the bandwidth. Serving up cached articles could easily increase their bandwidth consumption several times over. (Rob says very few people read comments. So instead of loading one front page, the readers now load one front page plus four cached articles. Bandwidth consumption has just pentupled!)
The other issue here, obviously, is copyright infringement. Sure, you and I know that it's benign, even helpful to the site creator, but not everyone is going to see it that way. I can't imagine the slashdot editors want to deal with the legal headaches that could arise here.
I have an idea, though... maybe Google would be willing to set up a "streamlined" URL submission page for "trusted" submitters - I bet quite a few Google employees read slashdot. It would allow the trusted users to submit URL's that would be immediately cached and indexed, instead of the usual several week lag time. Google can afford the bandwidth, and their cache is already a generally accepted part of the net landscape. Of course, this doesn't help with image-intensive pages, but those stories are usually lame anyway (woahhhh, dude, check out that case mod! it's got a big hole chopped in the side and it's filled with strawberry Jell-O.)
That said, it would be very nice if there was some standard machine readable mechanism to indicate, "yes, you may cache this to avoid slashdotting this site" that the site could serve. Of course, then it gets complex: the caching parameters have to be specified, you ight want allow/deny lists for cachers, etc. Finally, if someone does cache such a site, they'd want to have legal proof that permission was granted, and that brings us to the use of PKI and certified digital signatures.
Great idea, but the overhead of a practical implementation with legal safeguards is probably too high. Hmm, perhaps such caching could be construed as a "fair use" of copyright material?
You could've hired me.
It would be very nice if there was some standard machine readable mechanism to indicate, "yes, you may cache this to avoid slashdotting this site" that the site could serve
It's called robots.txt and that's what Google and archive.org use.
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
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My 9 year old son is doing that now. He seems to think that I can magically transform his detailed drawings into a game. I met him less-than-half-way and installed Visual Basic on his computer. I showed him Blitz3d and now he's asking for 3DSMax to do the art. Arg!
I am getting really sick of Slashdot wrecklessly posting links to webservers that they KNOW cannot withstand more than 5 minutes of slashdotters. These people have to pay for bandwidth most of the time, and one linking can cost the web sites several hundred dollars.
Posting a link on slashdot is very much like a DOS attack. Slashdot knows how many users visit its site, and knows that most of the sites that they link to cannot handle the load. This is wreckless and negligent, and one day Slashdot is going to get into trouble over it.
so does anyone have a mirror of the /.ed mirror? :-)
http://kered.org
Furthermore, how do you defend against people changing their robots.txt configurations after the fact that their site has been scraped and claiming that scraping was not permitted in the first place?
You could've hired me.
In high school, I had one of those TI graphing calculators. You could write programs on it, although they were fairly limited (the whole thing only had 32K memory!) and you had access to a total of 26 variables and six lists. Still, I wrote two games for it - a side-scroller spaceship-shooting-aliens game (complete with upgradeable guns when you shot x enemies down) and a vertical scrolling pole-position game. Everybody in my school with a TI-82 had a copy of those games. Sadly, though, I lost them on the day of the AP exam, and the backup I made turned out to be corrupted.
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
My school had crappy 286's, and I had a C64 at home. I would design programs for it in study hall, and write the program on a piece of paper for when I got home. Suprisingly, the programs would usually only require minor bugfixes.
Tangent: The 286 network at my school had only one 20 MB hard drive (in a server machine). One day I discovered the key repeat function in Wordperfect, naturally I thought to test the limits of the system. Next day the teacher mentions that she had to delete my file, as it was taking up the entire filesystem. Oops!!I run a small home server over ADSL, but I also get 20mb of web space at my ISP that can handle the bandwidth.
A sensible self promothing poster would move there content to a high bandwidth site before posting.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
I didn't plan for many games in high school... I mostly played them. Ok I did try to make some simple basketball game I believe... and I made a few games on my calculator. But I do have some notes left where I was trying to make plans for a self learning AI(!) Ofcourse nothing came out of that... Oh yeah in high school I also started this bold project of making an Othello ("Reversi" for some of you) game with an AI. I still have the code, and the most you can do is to move a cursor around and place those discs on the board. However just recently I've been planning and making notes for a Civilization like game. Ofcourse, I haven't done anything more than that.
Will work for bandwidth
Oh yeah. I was around 10 at the time. I bet I traced his drawings 150 times apiece. His best was the one that had the monster with a tank in place of his legs...eerily similar to the first boss in Smash TV (which I believe came out later).
My submission was pretty horrible as well. I created what was more or less a sequel to Blaster Master. It was a lot of fun.
"Gateway Timeout
The following error occurred:
Server unreachable
Please contact the administrator."
sound's like a great game.
How about /. serves different stories to different people depending on, say, a portion of their IP address? /. community's attention over a longer period.
In the next hour, the stories could be swapped around, spreading the
Or, Slashdot tips the site admin the nod 2 hours before the story goes live, to give them a chance to do load balancing, sign up to a non-free host etc.
All things in moderation; including moderation
Or is it just me?
...figures...
;)
This article does resonate a little bit with me though. I remember the lil game I wrote when I was in middle school.
hehe it was a Qbasic text game with (mostly copied from BBS games) ANSI graphics but still.
I never had to write any music though, I didn't understand copyrights then and just ripped other ppl's tunez...oops (Ne1 remember Realm's theme from FF3/6 that played in dos? I used that in there
Makes me wonder if I still have it archived somewhere....
Sigs pose an operational security risk and help the baddies aggregate data. I guess commenting does too, oops.
Only 64 windows? Big deal. Didn't even make a dent in my Win2K Pro system. Now, if you'd set it to open up 64,000 windows....
pi=sigma{n:0-infinity}[(1/16)^n][(4/(8n+1))-(2/(8n +4))-(1/ (8n+5))-(1/(8n+6))]
Perhaps the webmaster is clever - knowing this is a page that might interest the slashdot crowd, he wrote a little script to check the /. front page frequently (say, once every minute or two) and if his domain ever shows up the site is immediately taken down and some sort of klaxon / alarm goes off.
Hmm... maybe somebody could make a new product out of this concept - McAfee Slashdot Protector or Symantec Anti-Slashdot or some such. If they do, and patent it, I officially declare this post to be prior art.
That was Michael Ryan I think.
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I'm trying to mirror the site but it's going slow. Only 2 of the images so far.
http://razor.hemmet.chalmers.se/garote.bdmonkeys.n et/notebook/
After starting 3 or 4 Zork-style text adventures (Applesoft Basic on an Apple ][e) and not finishing them, I decided to write "Unfinished Adventure."
It was a half-serious game where you wandered around a half-finished text-game world. For example there was a castle you could walk behind, and see that it was just a prop made of canvas. You could also go "offstage" to the green room, and meet non-player characters, who were sitting, learning their parts. And every once in a while, and "game designer" character would appear, walking around trying to "debug" the game.
Well, I never kept a notebook. That's just more evidence they can use against you at the trial.
What's the deal with geekshelf.com? Why can't the public browse through the folders? Why the heck don't they have and "About" section? Is it a non-profit or what?
But hanks to my school's independent study program, I actually got class credit for it. I even got to list time spent on slashdot as "research." modern education is truly a marvelous thing.
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No, I wondered about that too, just didn't get invited to any of the parties. And I was obsesses with all of the female anatomy, not just the breasts.
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Yes M*A*S*H is great, but when you have seen EVERY episode at least 25 times each, it gets a bit repetitive.
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I think he asked for such a response.
Pretty brave of you to write that message from a microsoft network with no anonymous proxy.
Man, this brings back memories. When I was in HS, (mid 80's), the Commodore 64 ruled and all the cool kids had a Commodore. We used to make demos and pass them around on all the BBS's. There was "l33tness" back then too. The Commie users were the gurus, the kids who had the Apple IIe were laughable. If you had an Adam, you didnt even count!. Of course, there was the Atari 800XL series, and if you were REALLY cool ("rich") you got an AMiga when you went to College. YOU were then the cool kid :)
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At some point during high school I remember using a notebook for playing chess and checkers. For obvious reasons, boards were not allowed during class time, but you know there are some *really* boring classes and you gotta find something to keep you awake.
We would layout the checkered pattern with a pen, with minimal difference between dark and white squares, then use pencil and rubber to "move" the pieces around. Each match demanded a new page, as the previous one was trashed.
That's how every business works.
What kind of person are you, anyway? ;) /. ! That's sort of like sending out a hit squad.. his poor 100Mhz server feels the pain...
:D"
Submitting a link to a kid's site on
Here's from his site: "Thank god for my slow upload speed, or my poor little 100mhz linux server would be getting owned. I guess our site got posted in a slashdot comment, and now im getting quite a few hits (alot more then my 256k upload can handle). So, i guess if you are reading this, you are lucky to get through
Alright... this makes me an old fogey... but there were no computers available when I was in high school. The only computer I had even SEEN in person was MANIAC, because it lived across the street from me (at UNM) when I was in Junior High School.
:-) in life.
So us high school nerds played chess instead.
My first year out of high school (1965), OTOH, got me hooked on computers - Fortran programming on a 7094 at the University.... and life has been nerd-dom ever since!
Me thinks the slashdot folks are a bit, shall we say, less experienced (all right... younger
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As for my sig, bearing in mind that my 30-40 karma is now due to go negative after this post, maybe, just maybe my post lamenting my lack of 26 karma is a little disingenuous? Maybe my use of the words 'plz' and 'kthx' should hint that sincerity is not at the forefront of my agenda?
I don't really care about my karma other than hopefully keeping enough to avoid the 2 post per day rule (thanks Taco for showing your trust in moderation by bypassing it)
Incidentally, as a fun experiment to play with /. moderation, I suggest you try the following: post some insightful comments and see the occasional one get modded to three. Now post a lame ass joke, and watch it rocket to 5. Karma is easy to get by anyone who is willing to play the game. I'm not playing the game, Slashdot is dying.
Really, take a look around. How shit are the stories? How one sided are all the comments? The only arguments you see now on /. are whether MySQL or Postgres is the better DB. The rest is self congratulatory circle jerking "Oooh, sticking that sticker on your case is a great case mod! I'm so glad you posted it to Slashdot."
PS. Postgres is better.
I actually got to live out my dream. STORY TIME: Five of my buddies and I used to "live" in the University computer lab (ordered pizza; played PC games, Play Station, & cards; took naps, got phone calls there; etc ... ALL from the lab) while we were undergrads. One day, we were all playing an online game called Earth 2025 (swirve.com) ... and one person said "Hey, this game is slow ... couldn't we make a better one?" ... Everyone's eyes got big, and a year later, we had our own game, War II (http://war.darkent.com). We took a month, laid out the plans for our game (actually, we laid out a couple games, then picked what we thought was the best one ... and the one that we thought we could finish). And people just thought we were waisting all that time in the PC lab playing games!!!
War II started off as a free game that we ran out of a couple friends' dorm rooms (on University bandwidth), but the evil University caught on to us after a couple months (it was using too much bandwidth), so we had to put annoying banner ads on the gamne to pay for the bandwidth. I still remember when we had our 100th person sign up. It was a feeling like no other. Although it is just a simple browser game, I would HIGHLY recommend to anyone thinging about writing a game to write a browser based game first. The FANTASTIC feeling you'll get from having other people playing your game is like no other (we have over 20,000 people playing our games now), but you will also see first hand how difficult it is to write a balanced game. You'll also see how critical people can be of your hard work. It will help humble you TREMENDOUSLY!! (You'll never think you are the ultimate game creator after a 12 year old tells you where your game isn't balanced). You'll also see that creating a GOOD game (not some piece of junk like 90% of the games out there) is not NEARLY as easy as one would think. Just making a SECURE multiplayer version of a game is almost impossible. You'll never believe how much people love to cheat!
We've since wrote another game (Space .. voted Game of the Month of www.mpogd.com last month) and are working on a third game (Dark Age).
Still, if you have a love of games and are luckey enough to assemble the talent needed to create a game, DO IT!!! A chance like that only passes most people once in a lifetime ... so grab it while the opportunity is there! Of course, it helps to have friends that live in dorm rooms that have free bandwidth to get started. Start up costs are evil things too!
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real time real life animation, extremely complex multiplayer enviroments, real time simulations that run for months without pause, fps games with a real story... phantasy is the best compiler.
and, maybe in ten years, there will be a language/system that allows to realize the things you made up in your mind... let's just hope you can find your sketchbook ;)
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Judging by Rob Malda's comments surrounding the subscription thing, Slashdot's largest expense is the bandwidth. Serving up cached articles could easily increase their bandwidth consumption several times over.
Judging from all the editors' comments that "people don't come here to read the comments", by process of elimination they come here to read the front page and visit neat links. And if they want to keep shoving ads down our throat and bitching about [donations|subscriptions|/. pity parties], they'd better deliver the fucking content. And if the content is on a DSL line with a P2 as a webserver, it's their responsibility to ensure that i'm getting some value in exchange for that annoying banner ad at top.
Just like the elitist fucks that review 7 inch singles that nobody can find in indie magazines and then bitch about why nobody cares about their reviews.
Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...
Why don't they make it a value-added service for subscribers only? That should balance the bandwidth by making it 1)not usable by most Slashdot users thus decreasing the bandwidth requirement and 2)if enough users signed up and starting eating massive bandwidth there would be money there to support it.
Get a clue Slashdot!
Hey, everyone. This is the guy that runs bdmonkeys.net.
:-)
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You might be entertained to know that Slashdot managed to completely annihilate my firewall in just about 2 1/2 hours!
The firewall box was a little 486-66 with 24 megs running Linux out of a RAMdisk.
The data on the hard drive (The boot media) has somehow been corrupted. I can mount it on another machine, but I can't boot from it at all. Interesting, considering that the drive wasn't even mounted at the time it died...
Also, the machine is totally flaky now. Memory errors out the wazoo. I can boot from a floppy, but it'll only stay up 5--30 minutes. I think you guys actually managed to completely trash this machine!
When I first found it, it was just spewing a bunch of hex numbers to the screen. Probably BIOS error codes or something, I don't know.
No big deal. It completely cracked me up yesterday when I saw that my machine was actually *physically damaged* by the Slashdot Effect.
So, I picked up a P-150 with 64 MB today for $20. I finally got it configured about 20 minutes ago.
The instant I brought it up, the "ACTIVITY" light went solid.
Anyone wanna make any guesses how long this one will last?
My hovercraft is full of eels!
If I did learn anything in my 18 years on this planet then I would think you people were insane.
Then I start remembering the time when my friends and I were going to make a gameing server and get people to join and pay $5 a month for access and have nothing on it. Then we remembered that we were drunk and had another beer.