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Linux Enhances Shakespeare
marXian writes "Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven." Allright, pick your jaw up off the floor ;)
Double Double... AMD, Intel are in trouble, Chipset burn and servers bubble.... With apologies to Big Willie!
'Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?'
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, who but struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is gone - unless he is a 19yr old Finnish Computer Science student, in which case he achieves immortality"
"tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, Linux World Domination is all I see before me"
YASA (Yet Another Shakespeare adaptation)?
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
If ((2*B) OR (NOT(2*B))){
answer="yes";
}
else{
answer="no";
}
printf(be);
>a.out
>yes
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more
Come on now, don't you know all the cool geeks are using less these days?
Bitchslapped. Neat.
Shakespeare is dead! Netcraft confirms!
This just in - the US Congress today extended copyright protection back to "three business days before the Earth coalesced from the formless void", so the laywer representing the descendants of the Bard will be calling on these IP pirates and terrorists this afternoon with the mother of all cease-and-desist orders.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
I bet it's best when presented in its original Klingon.
The new iMacBeth, broght to you by MacOnLinux.
In stylish blood red colors.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
Ok, I'll give it a shot:
-+-+-+-+
SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!
MACBETH: It should have died hereafter;
There would have been bandwidth for such requests.
Page after page after page
Creeps in this petty pace from client to client
To the last tag of a slashdotted site,
and all our access logs have lighted admins
to way to budget denials. Out, out router activity light!
The web's but a dancing banner ad, a poor merchandiser
that struts and frets his hour upon the screen
and then is heard no more: it is an offer
made by an idiot, full of grandiose promises,
signifying nothing.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
"Could someone translate that to English for us?"
:)
You mean *from* English poetry into American prose, right?
I can see it now:
Yo! What's wit dis damn spot?
KFG
All the www's a stage,
And all the web designers and database admins merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one programmer in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the n00b,
Drooling and clicking on his brother's comp.
And then the whining freshman, with his pirated WinXP
And shining new imac, lugging his laptop
Unwillingly to class. And then the coder,
Cursing like furnace, with a woeful sigh
On the night of the deadline. Then a hacker,
Full of strange perl scripts and bearded like RMS,
Jealous in GNU/honor, sudden and quick in attacking M$,
Seeking the wizard reputation
Even in the economic downturn. And then the guru,
In fair round belly with long flowing hair,
With eyes severe and beard uncut,
Full of wise one-liners and modern programming paradigms;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful PDP11 code, well saved, now obsolete
On his rusting i686; and his quick nerdy keystrokes,
Falling again toward newbie typing speeds, null pointers
And unmatched parentheses in his code. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans keyboard, sans monitor, sans processor, sans everything.
Didn't get it? Read Shakespeare's original
... instead a millon monkeys on typewriters to reproduce all shakespeare books, all they need are penguins.
RSS was kicked out of opening night for complaining that it wasn't called "GNU/MacBeth"
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.