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HDD Assault Cannon
Anonymous Coward writes "Check out what these crazy fools have done. One has to ask, exactly how much time these people have on their hands? Got a couple of old 2GB Hard drives. You too could join in on their madness. Hard Drive Assault Cannons for all!"
"Anonymous Coward", the submitter, says "Check out what these crazy fools have done. One has to ask, exactly how much time these people have on their hands?"
Apparently you have enough time to speak in the third person about yourself. If you're going to astroturf your website at least make sure your machine and bandwidth can handle the load, idiot.
To those that couldn't load it: all you missed was a very slow loading gallery with 50 pictures and Quicktime movies of someone taking apart a hard disk and attaching shit to it.
Next story, please.
We have boxes of old drives that we need to get rid of here at work, but have to drill holes into them then have them melted down or buried in a landfill. This would be way more fun..
*Emailing boss the link*
I guess they could have used a more defensive tool to withstand the inevitable slashdotting...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Slashdotted already.. Probably had one of those 2 gig drives in it, and filled it full of apache logs.
So now that our laptops are going to be classified as weapons, us Geeks are even closer to being chained to the desk, sadly enough. This is not funny, because I just chewed through my posie straps last week, and managed to roam the floor above me. Now that my laptop is a deadly weapon, I guess I should go re-tie those knots and just give up.
I can see all the cookie cutter jokes about being slashdotted already.
Let me see.
"must have used the webservers 2gb hdd"
"must have back fired"
"hard drives now replacing RAM disks"
etc...
Official GOD FAQ.
kicks-ass.net is a free subdomain from dyndns.org - bet he's having some surfing issues right about now...
You may have a hard drive assault cannon, but your web server crumbles before the /. assault cannon!
--- Where's my car, and why are these grass stains on my pants?
Isn't that one of those free redirect services that people generally use to point to their cable/DSLed home machines? He's probably so slashdotted that he can't open slashdot to see that he's been slashdotted.
This site was already /.ed while it was still in the "Mysterious Future".
Whose turn was it to warn the linked sites today?
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
"Mommy, why did the RJ-45 face plate burst out of the wall in a show of sparks?"
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
That I'm at school, because they filtered that website. *lol*
What are all the other New Zealanders doing while he's using the internet connection?
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Jesus loves you, I think you suck
Either their site was really horrible, or we are just getting better at /.ing!
You mean it USED to be hosted on someone's DSL...
Hahahaha, that's wrong. Wrong, yet still funny :) I hear New Zeland's internet access is much improved since they upgraded the backbone to the v.92 standard.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You don't want to know. It involves sheep and petroleum products.
...you will need a 7200RPM or greater drive.
5 minutes is remove the site and put a simple HTTP redirect to TubGirl ;)
Hrm, I went to http://hddcannon.ass-kicked.net/ and got the same result.
What are all the other New Zealanders doing while he's using the internet connection?
Working on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
After all I'm still using a laptop with a 1.2 GB disk. Precious disk space!
Yes, you always want to remove the gauze from your hard-drive before destroying it. Otherwise, it might catch on fire during the melting step (#4). I'm sure Karl Freidrich appreciates the hint.
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
A better fix would be to mark all astroturf submissions "denied".
If a site is Slashdotted before you have a chance to see it, does it even exist?
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
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> Okay, this is a serious pet peeve. Fark is not a word, never was, never will be, STOP USING IT unless you want to be placed in the same category as lusers who make the Vulcan "V" sign.
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>Farscape was a TV show, not "reality", and the only reason the word was "invented" was because Scifi didn't want the rating level increase that would come with characters actually properly swearing. If you're gonna swear, swear properly.
Obvious: It's not news, IT'S FARKDOT!
Amusing: Drew sues Farscape producers. Claims trademark infringement. Hilarity ensues.
Unlikely: Geek submits Slashdot article about own website hosted on DSL and expects web server to remain unfarked long enough for someone to get a mirror.
Photoshop: Theme - an HDD assault cannon, a web server, a guy who doesn't know what Fark means. Difficulty - no Baby Head on Darl McBride's body.
A beowulf cluster of these! Mwah hah hah hah!
Normally, I have nothing but sympathy for people like that. I run servers on my DSL too and dread getting linked by ./. I defend against this by having nothing interesting on my servers :)
./ing but if you read the site enough to submit something, you ought to have an idea that 256k isn't going to cut it for serving up lots of pictures and videos.
However this guy I have NO sympathy for since the e-mail address strongly suggests that the person that made it was the one that submitted it. That qualifies as a Grade-A bonehead move if you asked me. I mean sure, maybe not everyone realises the full impace of a
This person knows now!
these HDDs? I'm seeking for a reason to resign as president of my local LUG...
Achille Talon
Hop!
Detailed plan for world domination:
1. Build Hard Drive Assault Cannon
2. ?????
3. World Domination!
My God! It's so simple, it's brilliant!
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
Imagine the bitching if it were a simple text-only "how-to" article.
Hard Drive Assault Cannon HOWTO
1 Introduction
This HOWTO aims to show how to manufacture a hard drive assault cannon.
2 Materials
You will need:
* One (1) or more hard drives, preferrably 3.5", and of unusably small capacity
* One (1) 4.50" ID PVC pipe, length must be at least one foot
* One (1) explosive device, any form
* Materials for explosive device to PVC pipe interface
3 Assembly
Somehow attach the PVC pipe to the explosive device in such a manner that most of the force enters the PVC pipe. Insert the hard drive into the PVC pipe.
4 Usage
Detonate the explosive device. The hard drive should exit the pipe, and move through the air. To use again, the cannon must be reassembled (as per step 3).
*Note: This isn't a real mirror, do not assume this is actually the mirror.
It isn't? Feldercarb!!
heed the .sig...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Okay, this is a serious pet peeve. Fark is not a word, never was, never will be, STOP USING IT unless you want to be placed in the same category as lusers who make the Vulcan "V" sign.
Farscape was a TV show, not "reality", and the only reason the word was "invented" was because Scifi didn't want the rating level increase that would come with characters actually properly swearing. If you're gonna swear, swear properly.
You know, SuperBanana, there are plenty of decaffeinated brands that are just as tasty as the real thing.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
ok blokes, i jumped in the old bomb and motored over to yack with these foolz with the catapult.(I reside in the next big smoke over)
...Slashdotters, I can't describe....wait
i'm standing here in the doorway now. luck for me my wireless is still running fulltit.
after some quick g'days being exchanged, these guys are going to show me how this thing works (yes their DSL connection has gone tits'up).
[mates, what you doing there? that looks a whee bit dangerous...oh that's clever using the chilly bin for cooling, the whole mess looks a bit stroppy...]
i'll keep relaying for you Slashdot blokes, since their net link has gone bush.
[uh blokes, not sure you should be doing...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!! don't...]
There's this bright $&%^#&fq9q1 1q91qwei and som238 dodgy metallicj 11(#%(*& for t28 love of god, don'1*31#(@#
[NO CARRIER]
Who cares about the latest round of RIAA threats or MSFT hiring some goober?
I resent that!
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
Okay, this is a serious pet peeve. Fark is not a word, never was, never will be, STOP USING IT unless you want to be placed in the same category as lusers who make the Vulcan "V" sign.
Luser is not a word, never was, never will be, STOP USING IT unless.....etc...etc..
Come on, man, be realistic.
Everyone knows they have one of those cool 2-in-1 PCI shotgunned v.90 112k modems.
Blazing, I tells ya, from Christchurch to Wellington.
- DRFSR
It's called Slashdot, and it worked again. ;)
I'm sure he knew exactly what could happen- maybe he feels like more of a complete geek now that he's been slashdotted. I'm sure his imaginary friends are impressed at any rate.
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Quick reply so I don't get modslammed hard...
This was a comment in reply to a troll comment, telling everyone that it's a troll and to not bother, and that the troll needed to fix his site.
My hard drive cannon is twice as good because I use 4gb drives.
None of those wimpy IDE drives, either -- I use Ultra-Wide SCSI drives (the extra circuitry makes them fly further).
Chip H.
(isn't one-upsmanship fun?)
Ironically, "Anonymous Coward" who posted this story left as his e-mail address "hddassaultcannon@hotmail.com"
I suggest we all email him about sending us some sample pictures of whatever the hell he was talking about.
Ideally, three or four times a day.
Asshat.
Even worse, we just /.'d New Zealand.
Why mark them denied? When they could be DELETED!!.
'SBEMAIL!' is better than a goat!!