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How to Make a Starship Enterprise out of a 3.5" Floppy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-else-to-talk-a dept.

Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today, so you get to enjoy this little gem: Here are some simple instructions for making an Enterpris from a 3.5" floppy disk. Remember those? Before CDRWs cost next to nothing? Thanks to Ant for digging this one up. Update Removed the link when the original content was removed.

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  1. Meh.. by fadeaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Call me when we can make a Death Star out of a roll of CAT 5.

    1. Re:Meh.. by Fulkkari · · Score: 5, Funny
      Call me when we can make a Death Star out of a roll of CAT 5.

      You should have told earlier. I already used all of my CAT 5 when building C-3PO.

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  2. Just in case... by c_g_hills · · Score: 5, Informative

    the site is slashdotted, I have put up a mirror at

    chaz6.com/enterprise/

    1. Re:Just in case... by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 5, Insightful
      WHY DID THEY PUT IT ON THE INTERNET IF THEY ONLY WANTED A FEW PEOPLE TO SEE IT?

      This is just idiotic. You have to realize that not everyone who puts up a website expects to have that kind of traffic. Nor should they. The other aspect to this is the folks who put up a website that may have some appeal on Slashdot, but don't really realize that. Maybe they are hosting it on an NT4 Workstation running Personal Web Services. Should they be expected to be able to withstand the onslaught of a Slashdotting? Do we ask the people who put flyers on cars in parking lots to publish on four color glossies? Would we expect them to? No. This is no different. Slashdot needs to consider these things. They should first ASK a site if it's OK to post their URL. Slashdot should then offer sites that WANT Slashdot exposure, but may not have the bandwidth or hardware to support a Slashdotting, the option of caching their site. All of this could be done very easily if the folks at Slashdot were to create an internal Slashdot site for themselves where they just point and click for this to be an automatic process.

      And for all you idiots who keep ripping on CmdrTaco for not being a "journalist"... get a fucking clue. Slashdot has NOTHING to do with journalism. It's basically a very advanced blog. That's it. They can't be held to any journalistic standards or accountability ebcause they are not a news source. That would be like asking a company who puts out a newsletter to fact check everything before it goes out to the staff. NO COMPANY truly does this. So to all you people who cry about journalistic integrity: get fucked.

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  3. Nothing good to post??? by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today

    It's not like that's ever stopped them before. Heck, they could always post a dupe.

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    1. Re:Nothing good to post??? by sqlrob · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why post a dupe? There's lot's of good stuff out there, like the new evil bit in TCP/IP.

    2. Re:Nothing good to post??? by nullard · · Score: 5, Interesting
      From the submit story page: grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way.

      From the story: Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today

      It can't be offtopic now.

      There was something good in the bin:
      * 2003-04-04 17:19:21 Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists (yro,usa) (rejected)

      Since it's a slow news day, you might want to read that article in my journal:

      Oregon is considering a law that would label protestors who disrupt traffic as terrorists. They would face 25 to life. So much for freedom of assembly. According to the article even the police union is opposed to this one.

      read more
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  4. You've reached the end of the internet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    And it is an USS Enterprise from reusable media. Nothing else to see, go on now...

    Really, go outside or read a book.

  5. Wait a minute by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just saw this on a message board, before it actually got to Slashdot. This is odd. Well once you get good at that then try this

    1. Re:Wait a minute by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course, it won't work the way it is described. The fly won't flap its wings as long as the feet have contact with something. You need to glue it on its stomach, with enough free space below to allow the legs to hang freely.

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  6. Lovely! by trublaha · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wicked. No longer will my flatmate's tape-reel millenium falcon and punchcard x-wing dominate the living room.

  7. What are Mac useers supposed to do? by FosterKanig · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the first ever, I am mad that my Macs don't have floppy drives. Now how am I supposed to waste five minutes of my day?
    Oh, right. I forgot.
    Masturbate!

  8. woohoo by croddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    it worked!

  9. Re:You know it's a really slow day when... by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

    yep. It was different in our day. We had no fancy networking; we'd _walk_ through a snowstorm to hand over floppies with the new slashdot content to each other. We had no shoes and it was always a head wind both ways. Just try telling the youngsters here; they refuse to believe you.

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  10. Re:Haha by websaber · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mayby the reason there's nothing to post is because people have stopped submitting stories. What's the use, they are always rejected anyway? 90% of posted stories are from the editorial staff. It's their right for creating such a amazing site but don't be suprised if people stop submitting/

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  11. Re:ERm? by polin8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A significantly improved model of Cat.

    The new CAT-5 never claws your drapes, and eats DOG-1 for breakfast.

  12. Slashdot so naughty. by IIOIOOIOO · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot. Slashdot will never provide mirrors of the sites that they crush though. Why? Certainly not because of all of the technical issues listed in the FAQ... not even because of laziness. The simple reason is money. With a single post on slashdot being able to rapidly crush the allotted bandwidth of a midsize site, can you imagine the cost if Slashdot had to pay for all that bandwidth themselves? Furthermore, Slashdot can ONLY make money by collecting ad revenues for content links, without ever having to generate/host any content themselves. I.E. 1) Some guy put's a funny thing on the internet for his small loyal band of friends/admirers to laugh at. 2) Slashdot posts it, in order to generate more pageloads on their site for viewing the story and comments on the story. 3) The burden/cost of serving the content is born by the third party, who is often times noncommercial, and in some cases bears an EXTREME cost for exceeding his allotted bandwidth. 4) Slashdot makes money, the person who provides the content to allow them to do so loses out. 5) I imagine it's only a matter of time before the first person decides to do the research and find an approach which would allow suit for damages. In summary, Slashdot's business model as a .COM instead of a .ORG is grossly abusive. Think of it as a grand version of those people who build a porn site entirely from offsite image links. Were I a webmaster with anything accessible to the public, I would definitely reconfigure my server to redirect anyone with a referer from Slashdot to a very tiny ascii picture of my wang. Of course, this doesn't mean I'll stop reading :)

  13. you are SO asking for it... by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Funny

    If one more IRC fuck-stick uses /me again I'm gonna hunt them down and bitch-slap them.

    /me hands btlzu2 a trout

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