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Server In A Fly
Tablespork writes "These guys have implanted the world's smallest webserver-on-a-chip into a dead fly! From the site: "Fly, grants us the ability to virtually possess the body of a dead, preserved fly via web-based technology." There is a webcam monitoring the fly, so you can watch as you blink the LEDs." And don't worry if something goes wrong with it -- "Several pre-programmed and wired flies will be on hand in case of technical malfunction."
Cool, this might spice up someone geeks sex-life, if they manage to get it into spanish-fly as well!
(and yes I know it's a beverage...)
Waiter! There's a server in my fly!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
my other sig is a 500 page novel
Why didn't they mount it at head height so you can see it while standing upright?
Ahh... First we kill a fly to embedd a webserver in its corpse, then we put it on slashdot and watch the webserver die... My evil plan has been fulfilled!
... LEDs in a fly, which supposedly can be switched via ethernet. Great, just what we needed, gonna solve a lot of the world's current problems.
Take the time to admire this scientific breakthrough.
"Hey Bob, I finally slammed that big fly that's been buzzing on-and-off my sandwich all day!"
"Why do I get a 404 on the project's page? Bob?"
-- It's always darker before it goes pitch black.
Imagine a beowulf swarm of those!
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
It will be impossible to trace a bug in that webserver... because the bug is outside the webserver. Ha Ha Ha.
This is sick! Someone call the fly rights movement! How would you like a webserver shoved up your ass?
The site linked is up fine right now, but the IP they give at the top as being the actual server on the fly isn't responding. Is it slashdotted? I'm picturing a smoking fly in the middle of the plastic cube. I'm just glad I don't have to smell it.
Fly Server Admin: Damn you slashdot! Damn you! You killed my baby!
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
The impressive part is that they killed the fly by catching it in the air with chopsticks.
Damn.. Peta is'nt gonna be happy about this..
1. Killing poor flies..
2. Implanting Chips in dead flies..
I suppose it gives a new meaning to building pages on the fly...
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
In Soviet Russia, flies....do something to you. Servers...lights. I don't know, leave me alone.
*The Bill of Rights - void where prohibited by law
Imagine this: you are flying around, minding your own business, maybe having a nice sip of that fresh little rotting piece of meat on the counter, when suddenly you die. You are barely dead, when someone sticks a webserver up your ass, which kinda hurts, and then installs some LEDs on your back, drilling right through your well maintained exoskeleton.
Then, when you have been online for just a few days, some hord comes down to slashdot your fine new webserver, and the lights go out.
If I were that fly, I'd be pissed.
Which reminds me of superfly. Know him? Check him out somewhere on www.shockwave.com.
... and I thought that "Adapting applications on the fly" was an article about hot-swappable modules!
some people will casemod anything.
The first slashdotting of a fly:
139.142.46.159
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
Did the fly die before or after beind slashdotted?
It's a lot more elegant than my attempts at dead-web-servers. The smallest I've been able to manage before this was a small dog.
I did have experiments in the mid 90s with webservers inside dead bodies, but they only led to dismal failures
(RIP Trevor, my flatmate 1992-1995)
Did anyone (including the person who posted this story) actually read the article?
Hi, you must be new here. Hope you find this site interesting.
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
help meeeee... heellp meeeee...
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
Isn't that what it says during the Windows 98 install? Press any key to continue...
(n/t)
I'm a pretty funny guy, no I take that back, a REALLY funny guy, but other than the obvious "waiter there's a server in my fly," I just can't think of any good ones.
Wait'll you find out where Mozilla's Bugzilla is hosted...
Like what I said? You might like my music
Yeh, and add a little 802.11b to the mix and you have a Wi-Fi-Fly-Fest :)
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
Just how am I supposed to debug this thing when it crashes (into a windshield)?
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
They must have used a RAID...
Well at least something around here gets dated!
Put the chip in a virgin fly and HTTP 403 takes on new meaning! :)
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
It's a bug and its a feature ;)
Man hurredly runs with two policemen in tow:
Man: "I can't believe it, they stole everything!"
Cop1: Everything?
Man: "Everything!"
(Man and cops head into empty server room)
Man: "They were right here. Ned! The servers! they stole all the servers!"
Ned: "No, they didn't. I embedded them on a dead fly on the window sill. It'll save us a bundle."
Announcer: "IBM dead fly servers! It'll save you a bundle"
Cop2 (hunched over the window sill): Um, I think that carpenter ant is dragging your server away
They'll be worrying about Swatter!
... a web spider comes along?
IN SOVIET RUSSIA....
bugs have your webserver!
those who control the past, control the future. those who control the present, control the past.
Guy1: "Why is that fly on fire?"
Admin: "Damn you Slashdot!!!!!!!!!"
SIGFAULT
I don't actually want to imagine a beowulf of these things.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Brings new meaning to the phrase, "Excuse me, your fly is down."
The point? What is the point?
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Boss: "DON'T YOU HAVE WORK TO DO?"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Mother: "What's wrong with a date now and then? I'll trade the dead fly for a grandchild"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Dad: "Is it a job? A dead fly server is nice but you can't eat with it."
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Talk about serving web pages "on the fly" :-)
Sorry, couldn't resist
In Soviet Russia, our bugs have programs
Sorry again
Well, i'll give it a try:
There was an old woman who swallowed a server
It didn't deserve her, but there went the server
and i don't know why /she swallowed the fly/
But we can light up her eyes...
i think this one has to end with...
i know an old woman who took windows source
she's dead, of course! oke, i think it's out of my system now. Apologies for the temporary insanity...
"I'd say 'Have a good time,' but arson is still illegal.
It died of course.
There was an old geek who swatted a fly.
:-}
He wriggled and jiggled and put a web server inside.
He posted the fly, a URL for our eye.
(wait for it...)
I don't know why, we slashdotted the fly.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Zombie processes running on several University and DoD computers have initiated a Denial of Service attack against the Fly's webserver. Experts are confused whether using RAID would have prevented this.
I like my women how I like my sugar.. granulated.
I think the ideas for new market segments for wearable gadgets are going way out of proportion. How would this generate money? The buyer is dead, for crying out loud!
The page you get now when you try to access the site says, "Slashdotters: Please bookmark this site and come back next week..." (What?! Is he a glutton for punishment or something?)
:)
Looks like we swatted that fly.
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
He must be under the assumption we won't (inadvertently, of course!) Slashdot his phone network, too...
Hehe. I'm imagining people calling him and going "First Post!" and then hanging up.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
Dude, you just stepped on my webserver.
Oh shit, sorry...
Hey, the music stopped?
Oh shit, sorry...