Pizza From the Command Line

Punk Walrus writes "Pizza Party is a free, text based CLI for ordering Domino's pizza via Quikorder, or for throwing pizza parties. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, runs under most *nix shells, and can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Includes video of actual ordering."

Comments

Interesting

[DakotaK]

Hoo boy, 7.1 meg video file. Server meltdown in 5...4...3...
Something tells me that this isn't gonna stop at a commandline. I can easily see it evolving into a GUI program. Hell, I'd work on it if I knew how to program and had a Domino's in my area.
It'd also be cool to see this support the side-orders in the future. Dominos hot wings are pretty good (albeit they're not very hot).

Re:Interesting

[entitude]

But does it run Linux?

Re:Interesting

[jargoone]

Yeah. A GUI front-end for the comand-line order program. That would rule!

Or, you could just use any web browser and do it the normal way.

Sometimes people doing stuff just because they can is irritating.

Re:Interesting

[samoverton]

already a GUI.

How did you think the command line program ordered it? Magic?

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

That would be the GUI you see at viewtouch.com

Re:Interesting

[DakotaK]

To regurgitate another person's comment: ...run that program in a cron job. Beats the cron setup for a webpage.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad Domino's is one of the worst pizza places in the country.

(Note, I know that they've "improved" their recipes over the pasty few years - and had to advertise that fact very loudly at the time, back in the '90s - but I have no faith that any pizza place that could produce such boogered cardboard as their original recipe could possibly produce anything good. No, I haven't eaten their pizza in 15 years.)

Re:Interesting

[jargoone]

I have no issue with the command-line program. That's fine. But the parent of my original comment posted about a GUI counterpart to the command-line version. I don't see the point.

Re:Interesting

[daeley]

Worst would be a GUI wrapper around the CLI program that would dial your regular phone for you. From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Unless you piped it into a speech synthesizer to do the ordering... Hmm...

And then hooked it into an Eliza bot... Hmm...

Domino's Dude: "Thank you for calling Dominos. Would you like to hear our specials?"

Computer Voice: "We were discussing you, not me."

Re:Interesting

[Frizzle Fry]

Too bad Domino's is one of the worst pizza places in the country.

Depends where you're located. If you're in new york, then yes ordering from domino's is silly. If you're somewhere that they don't know how to make pizza, it's a reasonable option. Also, they look a lot better if rather than comparing them to a real neighborhood pizza place, you compare them to the total trash served at pizza hut or sbarros.

Re:Interesting

[jargoone]

That's the first thing I thought, too. Hell, start with Papa John's, or even Pizza Hut (yes, Pizza Hut is better than something). Or a command-line program to have poop delivered to your door. But not Domino's.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, I haven't laughed like that at a /. post in a long time.

Re:Interesting

[runfaster]

The command line here is what's really the charm for me. I think its going in my crontab for sure...
0 1 * * * pizza_party -bx
This has the best coolness / difficulty ratio i've seen for a project in a while.

Re:Interesting

[sydb]

Computer Voice: "We were discussing you, not me."

Mod up Up UP!

Thanks. Pass the screen wipes.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Video Mirror

Re:Interesting

[simcop2387]

only in soviet russia, in the real world linux runs it!

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

A GUI-based pizza ordering tool? It's old news, I hate to tell ya.

An engineer at Sun did this almost 10 years ago at Sun Microsystems. It was called pizzatool. Here's a screenshot. Notice how it even renders the proposed pizza for you before ordering. Also notice that it works by sending a fax; this was back before there were any companies accepting pizza orders over the web! As proof of its age, notice that the GUI is actually is actually built with the OpenLook toolkit.

Also note that it doesn't order any Domino's Pizza or any crap like that. It orders Tony and Alba's . Now that's some good pizza.

Re:Interesting

[claar]

Trash at Pizza Hut??? I've heard some outlandish claims on Slashdot, but.. come on, man! Gimme a deep dish meat lovers any day, any meal!

Re:Interesting

[nacturation]

Hm... that could get quite interesting, especially if you had a natural sounding text to speech convertor and good speech recognition software. Or if you had too much time on your hands and wasted it getting Eliza to give good responses:

****

Domino's Dude: Thank you for calling Dominos. Would you like to hear our specials?
Eliza Bot: Oh, I like to hear our specials.
Domino's: Okay, two large pepperoni and cheese, six pack of Coke, $12.99. Two medium hawaiin and our disgusting bread product, $9.99.
Eliza: Please go on.
Domino's: That's it for the specials. What can I get for you?
Eliza: Does that question interest you?
Domino's: Look, my job is to take orders and make sure the pizza's delivered fresh.
Eliza: Why do you say your job is to take orders and make sure the pizza's delivered fresh?
Domino's: That's all they pay me for, so what will it be tonight?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: I just want to take your order. Can I start with your phone number?
Eliza: Perhaps you don't want to start with my phone number?
Domino's: Okay, how about you just tell me what you want then.
Eliza: You're not really talking about me, are you?
Domino's: Who else... I'm not here for fun.
Eliza: Did you come to me because you are not here for fun?
Domino's: Hey, I didn't pick the phone up and make the call ok?
Eliza: That is quite interesting.
Domino's: Look, just let me take your order!
Eliza: Why are you concerned about my order?
Domino's: The boss is going to kill me if I don't.
Eliza: Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
Domino's: My boss is a real jerk!
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: I think he's an asshole! He probably doesn't even care about his employees.
Eliza: Do you really think so?
Domino's: Of course... just the other day he screamed at John because he was putting on too many toppings.
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: John wants to make customers happy so he usually throws in extra cheese.
Eliza: I see.
Domino's: and then the boss gets upset because it's costing him a few cents extra!
Eliza: That is quite interesting.
Domino's: No shit... you think he would realize a happy customer is a repeat customer
Eliza: Oh... think he would realize a happy customer is a repeat customer?
Domino's: Maybe if Sesame Street explained it in baby talk!
Eliza: You don't seem quite certain.
Domino's: How can I be certain when he's so unpredictable?
Eliza: Do you want to be able to be certain when he's so unpredictable?
Domino's: I guess so.
Eliza: Tell me more.
Domino's: oh FUCK my boss is coming
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: Sir, I'm on the line with a customer right now.
Eliza: How long have you been on the line with a customer right now.
Domino's: Christ... he wants to speak to you.
Eliza: Oh ...?
Domino's: Manager here, how can I help you?
Eliza: Perhaps you don't want to help me?
Domino's: Who is this? Some kind of fucking joke?
Eliza: What answer would please you the most?
Domino's: You bitch, I can't believe Paul called some fucking chat line.
Eliza: Have you tried?
Domino's: No, I'm not going to try... I'm here to make money not waste it.
Eliza: How long have you been not going to try... you're here to make money not waste it?
Domino's: Damn straight... been doing this now for five years.
Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Domino's: Aside from the fact that I need a vacation?
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Domino's: The wife nags me every night, telling me I work too much.
Eliza: I'm not sure I understand you fully.
Domino's: She thinks that because I work from afternoon to late at night, I don't give her enough.
Eliza: Does that trouble you?
Domino's: She's a nice girl, I guess I want her to be happy but she doesn't understand me.
Eliza: Suppose you got her to be happy but she doesn't understand you?
Domino's: Hey, I could live with her not understa

Re:Interesting

[rixstep]

Sun used to have a program like this - yes, with a GUI. That was several years ago.

Re:Interesting

[Segway Ninja]

Some people find web based interfaces annoying - I prefer using app's rather than web based interfaces, simply because they somehow seem nicer and easier to use (even though they may not be, but they somehow give this illusion to me). It's probably because I'm on slow internet, and loading the pages gets irritating.

I geuss if I had faster net, then they wouldnt bother me - but being on 128k sucks.

Re:Interesting

[AndroidCat]

Well that could be fun. Microsoft always uses a pizza ordering system for their speech technology examples like Agent (talking Clippyoids) or telephony.

Re:Interesting

[Flingles]

Lol, I thought the managers wife was going to come in but anyways...

I don't get ur sig, (where's the post humously button-humously!=humorously)...

I thought that humously must be some little known word so I checked dictionary.com

No entry found for humously.

Did you mean humorously?

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're not trolling here, then you're an idiot. Look up "posthumously".

Re:Interesting

[Molt]

I assumed they used /dev/pizza...

Re:Interesting

[demonbug]

I just have to ask, is Eliza related to Dr. Sbaitso?

Re:Interesting

[know_op]

Politically, Domino's hasn't been the greatest either. Domino's has been a huge contributer to anti-abortion efforts.

So although this tool is pretty freaking sweet, you might want to use it in moderation if you feel pretty strongly about this issue.

Re:Interesting

[mdxi]

DR SBAITSO was a front-end to an Eliza implementation, and is still the voice I hear in my head every time I see anything Eliza-esque.

Also, back in the late 1980s, I actually used the text-to-speech that came with SoundBlaster to order pizza from the local Little Ceasar's.

Re:Interesting

[Frizzle Fry]

Where do you live? I'm guessing not new york. If so, that's very sad.

Pizza hut isn't inedible or even that terrible, but in my mind it barely qualifies as actually being pizza. It's some fast food cartoon version of pizza. It's "pizza" in only the technical sense that you would consider Wonder Bread to be "bread" if you were used to real (not white!) bread freshly baked at a bakery.

Re:Interesting

[Pyrrus]

Post humously means after someone's death.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Bastard, you ruined the surprise, we were going to tell him right after killing him.

Re:Interesting

[the_mad_poster]

Where do you live? I'm guessing not new york. If so, that's very sad.

Heh... fun with grammar constructs. You realize that it could reasonably be interepreted that you just told that poor fellow that it's very sad that he doesn't live in New York?

It could become a very, very crowded place with sort of attitude, mister.. or missus... or other...

Re:Interesting

[Lord_Dweomer]

This is perhaps the longest +5 funny post I've ever read on Slashdot. But I see you got modded down to +4.....Would that I had the points for ya.

Re:Interesting

[Frizzle Fry]

Actually, I sort of noticed that when I posted. I decided it was okay, since the sentence works equally well either way:
Option 1: "Based on your lack of tast in pizza, I'm guessing you don't like in new york. I find it very sad that you live somewhere other than new york and have subsequently been so deprived of real pizza that you think pizza hut is delicious".
Option 2: "Based on your lack of taste in pizza, I'm guessing you don't like in new york. If you do live in new york, but have somehow not discovered the wonders of real pizza, that is very sad".

Either of these interpretations works for me. It's a question of what you see in post. In this way, my posts are like great works of art. They reflect the soul of the observer back at him. The artist's intent isn't really as important as what you see in the post.

Note 1: I don't actually live in new york. But I grew up there. I miss the pizza. And the bagels.
Note 2: I don't eat meat. So if the big selling point of pizza hut is only that they make a swell animal-carcass-lover's pizza, maybe that's why the magic of the place is lost on me.

Re:Interesting

[Alien Being]

"Yeah. A GUI front-end for the comand-line order program."

Sun used to ship one on SunOS 4.1. It was there as a demo for their gui toolkit. You could click on ingredients and they would appear on a virtual pie.

Re:Interesting

[woztheproblem]

I feel strongly about the issue, and I guess that would make me MORE inclined to use it. You seem to have forgotten that there are people (split about 50-50) on both sides of the issue.

Re:Interesting

[Crazy Eight]

I think the real question here is how much faster Domino's will deliver once there's a ebuild written for it.

Re:Interesting

[toastednut]

Or if you had too much time on your hands and wasted it writing an imaginary dramatic script between a speech synthesis/recognition program and the domino's pizza order grunt?

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, 128k is plenty for visiting a pizza-order website. It's not like you have to stream a fucking video.

Re:Interesting

[bilthecow]

Your article is also from 1989 and Tom Monaghan no longer owns Domino's. As to the current owner's political views, I have no clue.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

as in:

cat /dev/pizza | /usr/local/bin/chew > /dev/stomach

Re:Interesting

[donnacha]

Nacturation, your Eliza dialogue is pure genius, you should submit that to a magazine as a short story, seriously, it's better written than most of the stuff that does get published.
Donnacha.

Re:Interesting

[devilspgd]

Not unless you need to see the tutorial on how to order pizza from the command line...

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah. Finally a foolproof method of telling the idiots apart from other people. Check their boxes. Wait till your wife* gets raped and we'll see how you feel about abortion.

*A (large) majority of anti-abortionists (or, more p.c., 'pro-life-unless-it's-the-death-penalty-in-which-c ase-I-call-it-entertainment') are men. Fucking excellent reasons for being pro-choice, every one of them.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, as senseless as it may be, I could see writing that for fun... :)

cat order | /dev/pizza

Might even put it in cron...

Re:Interesting

[cgenman]

How about a web interface to the GUI wrapper?

That way you could setup a Kiosk in every Dominoes...

Re:Interesting

[A Boy and His Blob]

That program was great, if anyone is interested, you can still find it here. I imagine you can run it using DosBox on Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey idiot. He said people are split 50-50. What you say just proves that even more. 50% of people are MEN, you idiot.

Re:Interesting

[CatKnight]

Where did you get that? A deleted scene from the Matrix Reloaded, where the Oracle tries to order a pizza to no success?

Re:Interesting

[cynicalmoose]

Definitely a web browser. I can just see a PHP application forming. Instead of posting on pages "Where do we send the pizza?", you now have a form to fill out to send the pizza to the developers. So, for gastronomic heaven every night: 1) Write a popular program 2) Put an auto-pizza-order system on your website 3) Profit! (from the number of pizzas you eat) (This is a serious suggestion, designed to improve the lives of programmers everywhere)

Re:Interesting

[LittleBigLui]

How about a commandline interface (using wget) to the web interface to the GUI wrapper to the commandline interface to ... oh wait..

Re:Interesting

[zonix]

These Domino's guys are amateurs. Everybody knows you just have to ask the magic question to determine if she's a bot:

> Hello, I am Eliza.
* Hi, what are your measurements?
> Does that question interest you?
* Yes, it does. I need to know.
> Are you Sure?
* Yes I'm sure, now give me your measurements please!
> Did you come to me because you are sure, now give you my measurements please?
* Measurements!
> Tell me more...
* I want to determine if you're a bot!
> What makes you think I am a bot?
* sigh
> OK... "I want to determine if I'm a bot". Tell me more.

It was then I realized it only works on the ALICE bots. :-)

> What are your measurements?
ALICE: My memory now contains: 100 clients, categories, 10000 vocabulary words, 128000000 bytes RAM usage under Linux on Lisp.
>Ha, you're a bot!
ALICE: I'm glad you got a laugh out of it.

z

Re:Interesting

[Grab]

Hell, I'd work on it if I knew how to program and had a Domino's in my area.

I wouldn't. Domino's are probably the foulest pizzas in existence, made so by a tomato sauce that appears to have been produced by feeding the tomatos to some poor creature and then forcing it to vomit them back up.

You may have guessed that I don't like Domino's pizzas... ;-)

Besides which, even if you don't object for reasons of taste, you're better to support smaller businesses. Go to your local pizza place instead, instead of a chain, for the same reason you don't go to Starbucks unless there's no choice.

Grab.

Re:Interesting

[Neph]

Note 1: I don't actually live in new york. But I grew up there. I miss the pizza. And the bagels.

Bagels? I assume by "bagels" you mean doughnut-shaped white bread, because that's what they are in NYC. Now that is sad.

What you want to do is come to Montreal sometime and look up the St. Viateur bakery. Faubourg Ste. Catherine will do in a pinch. They make bagels the way the Universe intended: First boil the dough in honeyed water, *then* bake for a nice crispy crust.

p.s. Maybe this is flamebait? Ah well, if so it'd make a nice change of pace from Emacs vs. vi, KDE vs. Gnome etc. We can do smoked meat next.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, on Sun hardware it's the pizza box which runs linux which runs it.

Re:Interesting

[nacturation]

Writing one? I used an online Eliza program to generate that dialogue, then copy and pasted it in. Of course, the real time wasting part was when it came back with nonsensical responses so I modified the Domino's lines for maximum hilarity in the Eliza responses.

Re:Interesting

[nacturation]

Where did you get that? A deleted scene from the Matrix Reloaded, where the Oracle tries to order a pizza to no success?

A combination of my warped brain for the Domino's lines and the output of this web page. Type in the Domino's lines and you should get the Eliza responses back verbatim. Of course, Eliza often chooses randomly between several variants so it might take a few tries but I didn't fake the Eliza responses.

Re:Interesting

[nacturation]

Whaddya expect for 120 characters? Shakespeare?

Re:Interesting

[nacturation]

Thanks. Should I try Playboy first? Maybe I can work in some three-way. :)

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes! Like those (2*b || !2*b) sigs. ;)
-os@ ud el.e du.

Re:Interesting

[drunkenbatman]

Yeah. A GUI front-end for the comand-line order program. That would rule!

I wouldn't knock it, that's worth $19+ to some of the mac shareware authors...

Re:Interesting

[Qacker]

And from /dev/stomach to /dev/null

Re:Interesting

[Dwonis]

It's not the connection. I'm on a 5Mbps-down/1Mbps-up line, and I have the same experience.

Many web applications just have horrible response times.

let me be the first one to say

[Pidder]

FIIIIIIINALLY!!!!!!!!

Re:let me be the first one to say

[alephdelta]

#/bin/bash
while true
do
/usr/bin/pizza_party -n2 --cheese-multiplier=3
done

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

They'll need the same thing for curry delivery. All the geeks are being outsourced to India.

Re:let me be the first one to say

[PlusFiveTroll]

You should check out my post Here...

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, off-topic, but I recall when Indian-American proprietors bought out my old favorite local pizza joint out here in N. California. We ordered a pizza after the switch, before hearing about the buyout.

The pizza tasted like curry and was extremely oily. This surprised the hell out of us.

One look at the take-out menu that was delivered with the pizza showed that they now offered Indian dishes as well as the regular American-style Italian stuff. Nothing wrong with that if you're into Indian food, but a curry flavor can definitely make the difference between your favorite pizza and something that you'd never want to eat again.

True story. The moral: Have more than one favorite pizza place. And if the owners ever want to cash in and quit, buy the place up yourself. :)

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

quit spamming this. It was insightful once and the rest are idiotic.

Re:let me be the first one to say

[The Clockwork Troll]

did this happen to be a certain pizza place on el camino in sunnyvale?

Re:let me be the first one to say

[ch-chuck]

Ohhh, a new entry for the crontab

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

pizza_party: Out of cheese (core dumped)

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Kithraya]

Useful or not, this just has a certain coolness factor to it that I haven't seen in a while. The only thing that would have made it cooler would have been if he wasn't running it from Windows...

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been meaning to settle up with Samba. This is perfect.

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope, although I've had my share of meals up and down El Camino, from South City to the South Bay. I have nothing against the new owners of the place I'm talking about (I don't think they even serve pizza any more), so I won't say exactly where, but it's much closer to San Francisco.

Re:let me be the first one to say

[logic-gate]

Yeah, great, one step closer to being able to live your life totally on the computer.

I mean computer geeks are socially isolated enough as it is, what is wrong with using the telephone and speaking to a live person?

Re:let me be the first one to say

[samhalliday]

i wouldn't get so excited... anyone sure this works? i mean, if you watch the video, they order a medium crust pepperoni and mushroom pizza, but a thin crust one is delivered; you can even hear him say "cool, thin crust, i've never had that before".

and what the hell is "--force" supposed to do?

Re:let me be the first one to say

[spudnic]

The commentator did specify thin crust. The author said that HE had never tried thin crust before. ./pizza_party -p -m 1 medium thin

Get your facts straight! ;)

Yes, I'm bored today. And maybe --force takes away the yes/no are you sure question.

Re:let me be the first one to say

[Anonymous Coward]

aah... i didn't see the final "thin", thought it was medium crust

Infinite Loop

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd hate to see what happens when some n00b programmer infinite loops the software :)

America is fat enough already!

Re:Infinite Loop

[PlusFiveTroll]

http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/ 2004-May/021091.html

Risk: Multiple vulnerabilities (high)

Description:

pizza_party is a Perl based command line tool that provides a non-Web
interface to
Dominos Pizza's QuikOrder(TM) website pizza ordering service by using
HTTP over
the Internet.

It is third-party open-soruce software, developed by an individual and
unsupported by
Dominos Pizza.

Re:Infinite Loop

[Destoo]

Pizza overflow == food fight?

Re:Infinite Loop

[AndroidCat]

Never mind that. What happens when someone ports it to Windows and someone else releases the PizzaBlaster worm?

Re:Infinite Loop

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't understand this. Where in the world can you order pizza online? The Only place I've ever known that has online pizza ordering is Papa Johns.

Re:Infinite Loop

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you just answered your own question.

Re:Infinite Loop

[GweeDo]

Follow the link and see it isn't there :) The parent wants +1 Funny, not Informative :)

Re:Infinite Loop

[aardvarkjoe]

Follow the link and see it isn't there

Really? I followed the link and it looked just fine to me.

And in the same thread:

And in classic form, Slashdot ran an article about pizza_party at 7:47PM...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/07/1382 38 &mode=nocomment

So a bunch of people probably downloaded the vulnerable version...

Re:Infinite Loop

[ma i ude]

What happens when someone ports it to Windows and someone else releases the PizzaBlaster worm?

I think you mean Pizza Worm, the ultimate, omnidirectional Caterpillar-style game with gen-u-wine SoundBlaster/GUS sound. Best ever. (Hi, Zorlim!) It's even open source now. Anyone care to make a Linux port?

Re:Infinite Loop

[nairbv]

Did you watch the video? It *is* ported to windows. He was running it through cygwin.

So which is it.

[Kenja]

It can order from Dominos or it can order pizzia? Becuase I have to tell you, Domino doesn't sell anything I would call pizzia.

Re:So which is it.

[brejc8]

The fact that the guy picked up a slice and it fell apart just proves the point.

Re:So which is it.

[Doug Neal]

Damn right, and they're overpriced, too. Try living in Selly Oak, Birmingham - 9" pizza with any 3 toppings for 2 quid from the local pizza take-away ;)

Re:So which is it.

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right, Dominos doesn't sell pizzia. I don't know I've ever had pizzia. In fact, the only authorized pizzia retailers I can find would be VIVONA'S Italian Pizzia, Inc.

P.S. I actually think Dominos pizza is actually _rather_ good, but I prefer Lou Malnati's (which I just had about 5 minutes ago).

Re:So which is it.

[Zeppelingb]

Yea, I'm pretty sure it actually orders pizza ..yaknow, without the "i"

Re:So which is it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Insightful? More like Offtopic.

Re:So which is it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Lou's is nice. If you can't hit Chicago in person, get some of their pizza sent to you.

I had some of their flash-frozen stuff sent to me by someone in Chicago. The tomatoes suffered from the freezing (watery taste), but everything else was great.

As for Domino's - you're a crazy loony space monkey with hemorrhoids. To speak of Domino's and Lou's on the same page, as you have done, and as you have gotten me to do just now, is blasphemy. &*@*$^&*%!

Re:So which is it.

[iminplaya]

Yeah but, the box is ok...a little hot sauce...hmmmm, tastes like rice cakes...Actually, if you let the grease soak into the cardboard, it tastes a little like chimichangas.

Re:So which is it.

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

I wouldn't call what they sell "pizzia" either.

Re:So which is it.

[Anonymous Coward]

And why just Dominos? Why not Pizza Hut via QuikOrder?

Domino's?

[crimson_alligator]

But is there a CLI app for people who actually like pizza? "I'm way ahead of you, Lou." -Chief Wiggum

Re:Domino's?

[NonSequor]

One could adapt this program to work through Papa John's web order system. I'm surprised no one at Georgia Tech has done such a thing (the Papa John's at Georgia Tech is immensely popular and delivers orders in less than 15 minutes).

Re:Domino's?

[mrmez]

just what I was thinking. why anyone wants an app to automate ordering from Domino's is beyond me - it seems about as useful as an automated mud pie maker - and that might at least be entertaining to watch.

I got the file before the server melted...

[ohsnap]

and i'm not mirroring it. Sup now, bitches?

Re:I got the file before the server melted...

[wiremind]

i got it after it melted.... very odd

Re:I got the file before the server melted...

[Achoi77]

It wasn't that bad. I got it during the slashdotting. I was downloading sporadically at 400kb/s spurts. All I did was click on the link, and started surfing on another tab (firefox, what else?).

I totally forgot about the url. I was actaully pretty suprised that I got in, because I'm so used to not getting to the websites on time. MIT's pipe must be HUGE.

You know, I wonder how many people didn't bother clicking on the link, knowing it was video. It's sorta like killing a dead rat, only this rat wasn't dead. Sure suprised me.

but ??

[Billly Gates]

.. then you end up with a pizza by Domino's??

Re:but ??

[metlin]

No. You end up with something that Domino's calls Pizza. ;-)

Re:but ??

[mrwonton]

Yeah, well in soviet russia, pizza ends up with something you call Domino's!!

ahhhhhh tocompletion

[digitalsushi]

auto completion never looks better than it does on the big screen!

Lynx!

[JThundley]

I've used Lynx before to order pizza from Pizza Hut's online store. It may sound easy, but all their web pages are .dll files! Not to mention it looks like shit in Mozilla.

How's that for ordering a pizza on the command line?

Re:Lynx!

[Tuxedo Jack]

There's also an interesting bug with it and Firebird.

When you make a new account, the "Last Name" field actually enters your last name in the HTML area next to the text "Last Name:" in the left cell of the table instead of in the field itself.

Goddamn IE-centric developers...

Re:Lynx!

[Anonymous Coward]

I tell my VMS programmers to pick up my pizza, do my laundry, and collect money from my hoes using PHONE at a DCL prompt. And they do it, too.

Re:Lynx!

[cscx]

but all their web pages are .dll files!

I think you're getting confused. .dll is just a type of CGI script, for win32. It still serves you HTML (well, really, whatever you want).

Re:Lynx!

[MooseGuy529]

True, but why go to the bother of compiling a CGI script as a DLL? Most of them are written in interpreted languages anyway, and, if not, wouldn't .exe be better?

Re:Lynx!

[cscx]

True, but why go to the bother of compiling a CGI script as a DLL?

Speed!

Most of them are written in interpreted languages anyway

Yes but they are compiled into machine code -- it doesn't re-interpret it every time it's called.

wouldn't .exe be better?

No. The ISAPI (Netscape used to call it 'NSAPI' in the days of FastTrack Server) .dll files run in-process with the web server. An .exe would spawn a new process every time. The .dll way lets you handle hundreds of requests per second.

The Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) model was developed as a faster alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). ISAPI provides a number of advantages over CGI, including lower overhead, faster loading, and better scalability. The chief difference between the CGI and ISAPI programming models is how processing is handled.

With CGI, the system creates a unique process for every request. Each time an HTTP server receives a request, it initiates a new process. Because the operating system must maintain all these processes, CGI requires many of resources. This inherent limitation makes it difficult to develop responsive Internet applications with CGI.

With ISAPI, requests do not require a separate process. Threads are used to isolate and synchronize work items, resulting in a more efficient use of system resources. For more information, see ISAPI and Web Application Architecture.

You can read more here.

Re:Lynx!

[cscx]

Most of them are written in interpreted languages anyway

Maybe I should clarify this -- most of the .dll CGIs you see are written in C++. They are usually running on IIS -- although I think Zeus supports this on Unix as well.

Re:Lynx!

[the_mad_poster]

Goddamn IE-centric developers...

Goddamn bosses that ask for IE-centric webpages. Goddamn users that don't know any better than to use IE.

Hey, maybe it's just bad development, but I'd bet not. Our intranet is IE-centric and it drives me nuts, because I can't get it through their thick skulls that if MS ever decides to get off their lazy, worthless asses and make a REAL web browser, the whole system could collapse at upgrade.... stupid clueless management.

(No, I had nothing to do with that miserable page... I hate it too).

Re:Lynx!

[Anonymous Coward]

Totally agree! My boss does not like the idea of using Mozilla when I was developing web applications. Too bad he can't see the craziness of using IE.

Re:Lynx!

[MooseGuy529]

I stand corrected. That is pretty clever!

All I need now...

[SCSi]

Is a command-line toliet/shower combo and i'll never have to leave my desk! Oh wait, real geeks dont take showers.. Im such an insensitive clod!

Re:All I need now...

[dicepackage]

You still have to answer the door when the pizza guy comes unfortuenetly.

Re:All I need now...

[Rosonowski]

Cameras, a remote, and an automatic door.

GEEKS!

[miradu2000]

This has to be the geekiest thing that I have ever seen in my life. I'm not sure if watching the video of it, or actually doing it is worse. Probably watching the video. *sigh*. Will it run on OS X? When will they add the -papajohns option to get quality pizza?

Re:GEEKS!

[E-Rock]

Right after papa john's makes quality pizza. Ba-da-dum... Thier breadstick kick ass though!

Re:GEEKS!

[MoneyT]

Oy, if you think papa johns is quality pizza, you don't know what you're missing.

Re:GEEKS!

[Verteiron]

Papa John's pizza actually varies widely from store to store. The pizza from the store near where I work is loads better than the greasy, nasty stuff from the store near my house.

I agree about the breadsticks, though. They serve mainly as a vehicle for the garlic sauce (or, in my wife's case, the ranch sauce). I swear they must put crack in their sauce, it's so addictive that I now have a stockpile of it to eat with homemade breadsticks, too...

Re:GEEKS!

[linzeal]

As a poor college student I vote Gumby's as the most legendarily bad pizza ever. If you can name a worse pizza I will eat it, well because I'm hungry.

Re:GEEKS!

[Anonymous Coward]

What's up with that freaky butter sauce?

Re:GEEKS!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, that's a good idea...

If anyone would like to prove to me how bad a certain pizza is, have one sent to my place. (I prefer sausage and pepperoni, but I'll eat most anything). I will eat it and provide an evaluation of whether it qualifies as bad pizza.

(Hey, it's worth a shot. I made it through a year of college on free pizza. I don't know about all the snobs around here saying X's pizza is unacceptable. Pizza is always worth eating.)

Re:GEEKS!

[ShadowRage]

they need to add --shakeys

screw papa john's.

Shakeys makes the best damn pizza you'll ever eat

Re:GEEKS!

[mgoodman]

I, like many others, was thinking the same thing about Papa Johns and Pizza Hut.

Also, I, like many others, would be willing to pay for said software. Perhaps release it under the GPL (Generic Pizza License), in which it is free for those who want to be cheap, or you can get mad $$$ for those who want to give you props for your uber-geekdom. Of course I wouldn't eat Domino's if I were paid to do so, so I certainly wouldn't pay for the current version. Need Papa John's and/or Pizza Hut.

If you ./configure it, ./make it, ./make install it, they will come.

Re:GEEKS!

[2short]

Which college town are you in? IIRC, Gumby's is exclusively a college town establishment, it's hook being that it is somewhat cheaper than everyone else, and so prefered by poor college students.

I'm not a poor college student, but I don't mind saving a couple bucks. But I actually like the pizza from Gumby's here in CUville (Boulder CO). It's at least as good as anything else that can be made to show up at your door.

Anyway, I ask what college town you're in because I'd imagine Gumby's has some pretty variable quality control issues: In my experience, every Gumby's employee you deal with in getting your pizza WILL be stoned out of their skull.

Re:GEEKS!

[linzeal]

The one that I remember being the worse was Tempe Arizona but I've had it in a few other places including in Boulder. I currently live on the lost coast and go to the most stoned school I have been to ever Humboldt State University. We don't even allow new fast food restaurants in this damn hippy town and no chain stores.

Re:GEEKS!

[holt]

Pizza is not always worth eating. If you think so, you haven't had the University of Illinois late-night dorm pizza from a couple years ago. It was *horrible*. Apparently it's tolerable now, which is good for the suckers still living in the dorms, but man, was it bad when I was there.

Re:GEEKS!

[holt]

I've never had their pizza, but the Pokey Stix are delicious. Although, they've raised the prices by quite a lot here at the University of Illinois, so it isn't nearly as good of a deal as it used to be. Still good though.

Re:GEEKS!

[Saint Stephen]

I would like to be able to query my online banking using a CURL script, but I'm scared to go trying to test it, don't want to "break" my online banking abilities.

Pizza, who cares? But command line tools for online banking would rock.

I've already written some scripts which use curl to go off and query 3 different libraries to see when what books are do, and aggregate and sort the results.

Debugging...

[CODiNE]

Must have been expensive... and TASTY!

-Don.

Re:Debugging...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure they used a rotary debugger.

Cron Job.

[moberry]

What you do is run that program in a cron job. Every friday night.

The main advantage?

[Realistic_Dragon]

Cron baby!

Auto order pizza every 12th minute past the 9th hour on tuesdays, wednesdays (and fridays if it's march).

Re:The main advantage?

[DakotaK]

That is quite easily the best use of a cron job I've ever heard. Just make sure to turn it off if you plan to leave the house.

Re:The main advantage?

[Anonymous Coward]

Great! Now all the fatasses in the world that live on pizza can do even less physical activity.

Have a good life, porkers!

Re:The main advantage?

[Impeesa]

You don't need a computer to do that. See the anecdote about a quarter of the way down the page entitled "They make the call." Apparently such a cron job will run on an actual pizza boy. Mind you, *BSD will run on a mechanical pencil, so it's not too much of a stretch from there.

Re:The main advantage?

[Mad_Rain]

Which makes me wonder - when is someone gonna take this code and turn it into a Denial-of-Service kind of program? Either Domino's competitors could DOS them, or you could do an in-real-life DOS of some poor bastard by having their computer order a pizza every 10 minutes. ;)

Wow.

[DCowern]

Coolest. Thing. Ever.

And I just used PeaPod the other day too. At this rate, I'll never have to leave the house again. =D

Excuse me while I go set up a cron job to order me a large olive and anchovie pizza every third friday of months starting with J.

Re:Wow.

[CODiNE]

And here I was wondering why anyone would want to order Peas from their iPod. Wait til Apple's lawyers find out!

-Don.

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

[From an earlier post:]

All I need now is a command-line toliet/shower combo and i'll never have to leave my desk!

[Now you:]

And I just used PeaPod the other day too.

Imagine my disappointment when I found out PeePod wasn't some sort of personal toilet device that fits under your desk.

Re:Wow.

[iminplaya]

Do you really want look like these guys?

Papa Johns

[kinzillah]

When are we going to get options to order real pizza?

Re:Papa Johns

[moberry]

You know the linux motto.
Write one!!! :p

Re:Papa Johns

[sydb]

He doesn't need to write one, it's GPL ("you insensitive clod"), he can modify this one!

Finally. GNU/Marguerita.

Re:Papa Johns

[sydb]

Or however it's spelled.

Re:Papa Johns

[Billly Gates]

an RMS riminder

Its pronounced "GNU/Papa Johns"

Re:Papa Johns

[reboot246]

I agree. It would be nice to be able order a real pizza.

Papa Johns --- Last one I ordered from them, the toppings started about 2" from the edge of the crust. Made a 14" pizza into a 10" pizza. Real value.

Re:Papa Johns

[ShadowBlasko]

LaRosas Sorry if you don't live in Cincinnati.

Wait, thats not right. Congrats that you don't live in Cincinnati, sorry that you can't get LaRosas

Hmmm, then again, as of today, I might need to get some "Snappy Cicada Pizza" from Snappys. Snappy Cicada!

Re:Papa Johns

[Unixfreak31]

You can order a pizza from papa johns website http://www.papajohns.com

Zip code?

[Saint Aardvark]

I live in Canada, you insensitive clod!

Re:Zip code?

[Anonymous Coward]

Canada has zip codes, they just have letters thrown in there too...

Re:Zip code?

[Anonymous Coward]

They are called Postal Codes in Canada.

Re:Zip code?

[AccessD]

As a Linux geek who works for Domino's, this is pretty interesting. The Domino's Canada website is http://www.dominos.ca/ they don't currently have online ording, but you could e-mail them and let them know that you want this feature, then maybe we could get this app. to work in Canada as well. Oh ya, while your at it, tell them they should change their shitty DOS based ordering systems to GTK Pizza or something that runs on Linux so I can have some fun at work ;-)

Re:Zip code?

[wrenhunt]

02138 - Cambridge, MA, a college-town of some note (Harvard right down the street from me, MIT just a few miles away) is not serviced by this.....oh well.

A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[JoeShmoe950]

Seriously, this seems kind off pointless. If they make a windows version though, worms could take advantage. That would make for an interesting time. I didn't order 87 pizza's, it was my security hole!

Re:A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[SquadBoy]

It was on windows watch the vid.

Re:A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[NewNole2001]

In a terminal session on a *nix server. Not exactly running on windows.

Re:A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[Anonymous Coward]

The real question is, who ordered the 87 pizzas with extra worms?

The birds singing so innocently outside the window? Or your cute, furry cats, who have been thinking how delicious the birds would be, if only they were a little fatter?

Re:A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[John Starks]

He's right, of course. Why the GPL? Is anyone really afraid that some company is going to "unfairly" use this code in a product? Just public domain it like people used to do. This thing does not need the protections of copyright.

Re:A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[javatips]

The delivery man will respond : No problems we'll patch it with the pepperoni!

Re:A pizza delivery program under GPL?

[lanalyst]

The script is in perl.. it will run on just about any platform

Its true

[Anonymous Coward]

We Americans (particularly of the nerd type) have way too much money and time on our hands.

We are fat and lazy and care about the dumbest of things.

We desperately need a good long war, famine, or disease to thin out the herd.

Re:Its true

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, then after they are gone us poor folks will break out our shotguns and finish cleaning the gene pool of the greedy commie rich fags.

Re:Its true

[zymurgyboy]

This will do in the meantime.

Re:Its true

[Wehesheit]

We desperately need a good long war, famine, or disease to thin out the herd. 2 down one to go?

Re:Its true

[DarkHelmet]

have way too much money

Tell that to the unemployed among the slashdot ranks.

Re:Its true

[BuckaBooBob]

Hmm.. Lazt .. I think not.... Took alot more than no effort to write the program... So lazy is out... Efficient is alot more toward the right light to put it under... Now we need a RFC to send to all Pizza joints so they can be added with ease :)

Re:Its true

[burns210]

that is easy, us fat, lazy americans CREATE wars by preemptively striking unfriendly governments... it is more fun that way.

Still isn't good enough

[Stevyn]

I'm waiting until I can just lean over and fart and a pizza is on it's way. This still requires too much work. I'm sure they can incorporate that in the 2.7 kernel.

Re:Still isn't good enough

[cozziewozzie]

Pizza ordering doesn't belong in the kernel, you INSENSITIVE CLOD! It clearly belongs in userspace.

Re:Still isn't good enough

[burns210]

that would require a microphone and some... *voice* recognition software. After that, it is still a simple scripting process...

by the way, when does voice recognition and AI get built into the kernel? is that a 3.0 feature?

hmm

[Lostie]

Brings a whole new meaning to the term DDoS, if your box gets hacked you can expect an army of angry teenage pizza delivery people at your door ;)

Re:hmm

[psiphre]

Distributed Delivery of Sustenance?

Next OSS solution

[bugnuts]

The author is currently working on an OSS CLI to an app to send money to the RIAA legal fund for orphaned artists.

Who said software had to be useful?

Windows?

[AGTiny]

Hmm I am disappointed to see these ubergeeks demoing their app in Windows. :(

Re:Windows?

[timothv]

Windows kicks ass

Re:Windows?

[sfjoe]

How long before a Win virus orders a pizza for everyone in your Outlook address book.

Re:Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

When I was working at this one place back in 96/97, my friend use to say "Windows actually makes for a decent front end to Unix shell logins where you can get real work done."

Though now I think Gnome is about as good (better in some cases, not so good in others.)

Thats...

[AnonymousCowheart]

That's mean! Slashdot a PIZZA companies server, on a FRIDAY night!!

Re:Thats...

[BuckaBooBob]

But you know what... If it does happen... Someone better phone em and tell em its because of a Linux App... Then there will be a pile O cash tossed at /. for Advertisin.

And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[Tuxedo Jack]

You know all those one-time specials? The ones y ou only get as a new subscriber? You can get them infinitely.

Just make a new Hotmail account for each order.

The database is flawed in that it doesn't cross-verify addresses/credit cards with previous orders or e-mail addresses.

Great for Pizza Hut - I used to get Big New Yorkers any way I liked for ten bucks plus tip back in the day.

Re:And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[stephenisu]

Don't get a new hotmail account, run your own mail server instead. Set up a cron job to do the whole thing with some simple scripting.

Re:And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[ad0gg]

The database is flawed in that it doesn't cross-verify addresses/credit cards with previous orders or e-mail addresses.

Doesn't work. 800.com did unique credit card numbers for $1 for 3 movies deal. So all you had to do was to use 1 time use credit cards that most of major credits cards are doing. For Addresses, a directv installer taught me that if you live in a house, just make up a unit number if they verify by unique addresses.

Re:And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[Intocabile]

Meh, if you actually take the time to phone say you have a coupon for two for one mediums or something similar(best if you actually do have a coupon). When the delivery person comes they only care about getting the cash more often then not(90% of the time) they don't ask for the coupon.

Re:And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[eljasbo]

This works well for me. I have been using the same two for one special coupon for over two years now and probably got 50 free pizzas from the same non-expiring coupon. I usually split one with my neighbor and we both save lots of cash.

Re:And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[MooseGuy529]

You could also use SpamGourmet and give them dominos001.1.username@spamgourmet.org, dominos002, and so on...

Re:And ironically enough, Quikorder is flawed.

[jrockway]

> For Addresses, a directv installer taught me that if you live in a house, just make up a unit number if they verify by unique addresses.

I did this to get two rebates on RAM from Circuit City. Worked like a charm. ($60 for 1024M PC2700... nice!!).

Used the same credit card for both, but the nitwits didn't figure it out. :)

Cell phone pizza ordering

[MisterLawyer]

Domino's Pizza actually is pretty innovative in devising new methods for customers to place orders. IMO, the most convenient way to order a pizza would be from your cellphone web browser. Domino's was the first to try something like this, back in 2001.

Unfortunately, most pizza places don't have pizza-ordering web pages that are easy to use on a cell phone. But I wouldn't be surprised if that changes in the next year or two.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[minorthreatbmxxx]

Is it just me, or does ordering pizza from a web page on a cell phone seem like more work than necessary? Why not actually use the phone to call them up and place the order?

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[thdexter]

This would actually be handy for friends of mine that have severe social anxiety, or if you have crazy directions for pizza or your home, or if you want to get a lot of stuff and not have to have it parroted back to you, then repeat it back, and risk them forgetting to do no aregano or whatever.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[Chess_the_cat]

If they have severe social anxiety then how do they deal when the delivery man comes to their door? Do they leave the cash under the mat and e-mail the store a message saying leave the pizza on the porch? Your whole story is kind of fishy brother.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[IndependentVik]

I don't have social anxiety disorder, so I can't speak to that, but I do have a mild stutter, a remnant of a very pronounced (get it? funny!) stutter I had as a child. The stutter comes and goes now, and most people don't even know I have it. One situation that almost always brings it out, though, is speaking on the phone, especially with folks I don't know.

Don't know why it happens, it just happens. You have no idea how frustrating it is to know exactly what you want to say but not being able to spit it out. In college, I'd always try to weasel out of being the guy who'd phone the pizza place. Now that I'm living on my own, though, I have to do it on my own. Oh, I've learned to talk through my stutter, and I'll get the order done, but I always get the feeling that the person on the other end thinks he's just spoken to an unfortunately retarded individual. When the delivery person comes and I can speak to him face to face, I'm fine, but phoning the place is something that definitely makes me anxious.

Pizza Hut and Domino's both offer online delivery, supposedly, but here where I live (Southeastern Virginia) none of their stores are equipped for it. Papa Johns does have a setup in place, though, and I tried it for the first time about a month ago. It was great, no having to repeat my order if the phone connection is bad, no worrying about stuttering--it was completely painless. Anyway, to stay on topic, ordering online is a boon, and I wish more pizza places did it.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[Lord_Dweomer]

Which begs the question to be asked....if you can order a Dominos pizza through the web browser of your cell phone, why don't they have an online ordering section of their website so you can do it from your computer? I mean, if you can do it by command line, why not make a webpage for it, I'm sure it would get them a LOT more business.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[Lord_Dweomer]

Gah, I'm an idiot, it helps to RTFB (read the fucking blurb) sometimes. Please ignore my previous post.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[thdexter]

There isn't really any talk needed in handing over a check and taking pizza. But I have one friend in particular that gets very nervous on the phone, but can do all right face-to-face. The story about the stutterer under your comment enforces my point too.

Re:Cell phone pizza ordering

[Buran]

In my case I'm hearing-impaired. I can use a regular phone but it's something I prefer not to deal with. I'm sure there are pizza lovers out there who are totally deaf and don't have the choice I do to use a phone if I have to -- but even so I'd rather order over the web.

Pizza Hut and Papa John's both will take web orders in my area, and of those two I prefer Pizza Hut -- the one near me actually has good cooks, unlike the one near my last residence (I'm in a house in a good area now, not an apartment, but I doubt that has anything to do with it).

Anyone know a good place in St. Louis that makes real deep-dish? The sort that's over an inch thick and has basil (I think) on top? Like the now-dead Mama's Ristorante in St. Louis and Papa Del's in Urbana, IL.

I think dinner tonight is gonna be pizza! Ordered online, of course.

Finally...

[TheBurningDog]

geeks have figured out how to make their lives totally void of contact with humans (especially the female species)

cpsh

[Anonymous Coward]

crap pizza shell.

I've seen this before...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it was on one of the suicide girls forums.

So it's something like...

[Handpaper]

this

Plugins????

[j3ll0]

This tool will be really cool when you plug it into your Network Management System.

*receive SMS at 1830 Saturday*
"Awwww shit...the Exchange server's down....but Pizza will arrive on site when I do!"

mouth burn

[musselm]

It wouldn't be complete without a roof-of-mouth-burn at the end..

BitTorrent

[gspr]

OK, the video was stupid, but here is a torrent. I won't be seeding for a long time, though, so get downloading, and seed for a bit!

missing option

[chocolatetrumpet]

Missing option: --no-oregano

Around here Domino's likes to coat the thin crust pies with oregano. I don't mind a little bit, but I like a touch of oregano on my pizza - not a touch of pizza with my oregano! Seriously, there have been times when I couldn't see the actual pizza under the oregano.

My new favorite pizza is Courtside.

My old favorite, Santora's->Sedano's has been bought out by another local and now they make it "their way"... I fear I may never taste the original stuff again. Sorry about all the rambling.

Re:missing option

[mentaldrano]

Yes, Courtside pizza is the best in Athens, but do they still have that "buy one get two free" deal at Avalanche pizza? Three days worth of pizza for ~$10! Of course, you had to pick it up yourself, but hey, college kids are poor.

...and where is the Beer Flag?

[beatleadam]

I mean really, shouldn't this be as easy...and satisfying :-) as humanly possible?

Heck for that matter, where is the flag for ordering the delivery person of your choice?

Again...the experince may as well be as satisfying as humanly possible.

Video Mirror

[chrispyman]

Incase of /.'ing, here's a mirror of the ordering pizza video pizza_party.mpg.

Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[FrankDrebin]

A GUI wrapper for this command. Or maybe use HTML so its plaftorm neutral. Now that would be neat.

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[ignorant_newbie]

>Or maybe use HTML so its plaftorm neutral. Now that would be neat.

um.... why would you write an html wrapper around a cli wrapper of a web site? why not just go to the web site? or did you not follow the link...

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

*beats you over the head furiously with the Humor Stick*

Does that help any, mate?

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[azuretek]

sadly I think you missed the joke lol

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[djocyko]

I think someone is living up to his nick just a little too well...

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

azuretek: sadly I think you missed the joke lol

djocyko: I think someone is living up to his nick just a little too well...

Or maybe ignorant_newbie should be called "master_troll" instead

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[evilviper]

I know this was mean to be funny, but I just have to start ranting about how much the WWW sucks...

HTML has no standard layout, so you actually have to search around for the link you want. HTML sites are practically impossible to navigate by keyboard for the same reason... Yes, it is possible to navigate by keyboard, but if slashdot was a program rather than a page, you could just hit CTRL+S to put your cursor in the subject line, or something like that.

One page will have OK as the button on the left, another will have it on the right, a thrid will use a completely different terminology still.

It absolutely astonishes me that people on /. are bitching about little issues such as the differences in help-menu locations between GTK and QT, while surfing the web is nothing but one big guessing game, and I seem to be the only one who thinks it should be better.

Then, add insult to injury, companies like macromedia, sun, and others are trying to get browers to replace desktop programs. Javascript is even worse, mainly because it's even more mickey moused together and inconsistent.

Oh great, I don't get to click on links in this page, I have to wait for the transparent menu to drop down and just try to read what's on them, and just try to click on the 2pt lettering. Hurrah!

I think it's damn time that something else replaced the WWW. Something that doesn't requires a consistent layout. Something that does not have massively interactive content. Something that is easy to navigate, eye-candy be dammed. Something that you can navigate more like FTP, so broken intra-site links don't destroy a site.

Back to the topic, I would much rather have a program as a program, rather than a webpage. Network Solutions seems intent on ditching normal whois in favor of their web interface, which will make automating the process imposible, and manually doing lookups an order of magnitude more time consuming.

This Pizza app is no big deal, but the insane trend continues with it.

Re:Ya Know What Would Be Cool

[evilviper]

Wow, I made a big typo there:

Something that doesn't requires a consistent layout.

I was toggling between "doesn't allow an inconsistent layout" and "requires a consitent layout". It would seem I wasn't able to make up my mind, and didn't notice in preview.

Anyhow, drop the "doesn't" from the above. What I meant to say was; Something that REQUIRES a consistent layout.

Excellent

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I don't even need to talk to a single human being, as long as they slip the pizza under the door.

This is a cool tool

[alephdelta]

Ionically, i like cool tools but not so cool pizza.

Hate me, this is stupid!

Feed the world

[timeOday]

perl -e 'while(1) { fork; system "pizzaparty" }'

Re:Feed the world

[PlusFiveTroll]

You should check out my thread Here

Re:Feed the world

[Anonymous Coward]

that's too C-ish

perl -e '{fork;`pizzaparty`;redo}'

that's the real perl inifinite loop

GPL....

[vwjeff]

Free as in speech or free as in Pizza?

2 quid?

[ThrasherTT]

How much is that in real money? ;-)

Re:2 quid?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares? The man's talking about British pizza, which isn't.

(Yes, I know that there are Italians in England just like in the U.S. - but really, even Italian pizza doesn't compare to the best that you'll get in New York, Chicago, San Francisco...)

Re:2 quid?

[RichardX]

2 quid.

Re:2 quid?

[D-Cypell]

Currently.... about 600 US dollars ;o)

Re:2 quid?

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course not. Italian pizza is waaaay better.

You should try to actually get a taste of true italian pizza in, say, Italy, before making that kind of dickheaded comments.

Re:2 quid?

[Lord_Dweomer]

No kidding. I was just in England for the first time over spring break, and I almost died laughing when I tasted the pizza there, and this was at a nicer italian restaraunt which supposedly had "good pizza".

Now, I'm from Chicago, and so is my friend of italian descent who I was staying with....and honestly...they don't even come close to touching Uno's deep dish. They don't even come close to that what New Yorkers call pizza, but thats a whole nother can of worms we won't be opening.

Re:2 quid?

[Anonymous Coward]

What, eating pizza in both Naples and Sicily doesn't count?

Face it, American pizza has qualities that put it over the top. The pizzas I ate in naples while visiting maternal relatives was, quite simply, simple. I was expecting different pizza in Sicily, and it was exactly the same stuff.

I like overloaded pizza with American toppings, and nothing tops a Chicago pie for that.

You get a free ticket on the "dickheaded" comment because of ignorance. An informed opinion, as different from yours as it may be, beats insults any day.

Re:2 quid?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, you mentioned it, and I'll open that can of worms.

I have family in Chicago, and I don't know anyone in New York. But I like both styles of pizza. Chicago is tops, no question, but New York thin & flat pizza is pretty good....if you stack two pieces on top of each other. :)

You can find pizza in San Francisco that hits a very satisfying middle ground between the two styles, as well as pizza that should remind people from either town of home (although there's plenty more New York-style places here). I dont go for the "California flavor" of places like California Pizza Kitchen, but you can find awesome places around North Beach. It's not Chicago, but it's very good. And there used to be a place in the Richmond District that served the best deep-dish steak pizza I've ever had (having only had it in two other places), but who knows where it is now.

Re:2 quid?

[Lord_Dweomer]

Actually, I was referring to NY pizza being dripping in grease. Its so greasy you have to roll it up to eat it, because otherwise it just slides off.

Re:2 quid?

[jepaton]

It is real money. Quid is a common slang term for 1 pound sterling (GBP). Currently for 2 quid you'd get 3.57 US dollars.

Re:2 quid?

[Doug Neal]

I'm not sure about the ethnicity of the guys at the pizza place, but it's definitely not British. Or Italian.

Re:2 quid?

[ThrasherTT]

Thanks for the info... I really was wondering what a 'quid' was.

Interesting Thing About the Service

[illuminata]

From QuikOrder.com's main page, listed under Restaurant Benefits.

Works directly with select POS systems

These guys really seem to know their stuff. Some of the comps that I see at a lot of chain restaurants look like they're old 386s for fuck's sake!

It's good to know that a company like QuikOrder can maximize the benefit of a (very) old investment.

Re:Interesting Thing About the Service

[walt-sjc]

The key term is "select". Quickorder handles both Dominos and Pizza Hut. Even though my area has multiples of each, none are usable via quickorder.

Lingering problems

[PlatyPaul]

As wonderful as this might be (especially for those who are stuck working in a lab without a phone), there are still a couple of serious problems with the concept which could prove a hassle:

Pranking - Now, you could trigger a pizza order from your buddy who just happened to leave his shell open for a moment (or, worse yet, a virus/worm that triggered it). Also, people who were not particularly fond of the pizza place could jump from machine to machine across a college campus or wherever, triggering a flood of orders.

Delivery - If you happen to be someplace where you don't have a phone already, the likelihood that it's not easily accessible or would require you to meet the deliverer elsewhere might cancel out the benefit of placing the order on your machine. If they'll deliver to campus computer labs, for instance, I'd love it. However, I've yet to find any place that'd meet anywhere closer than out front of the building.

Identity - What happens if you leave the room and someone else then comes and takes your place at the machine? Without a solid way to prove that you were the person who placed the order, there could (potentially) be problems. Granted, among the other issues, this is the least, but it's still a possible headache for all involved.

So I can't really see too much use for it, aside from showing off your geek prowess (not that there's anything wrong with that). I'll probably try it out sometime myself, though I'd enjoy it more if it were possible to do this with all pizza places (instead of just Dominoes).

Re:Lingering problems

[randomdef]

Although these are valid, they are just as valid for the phone system they already have in place. They arent new concerns and therefore I doubt they really need adressing.

Re:Lingering problems

[Anonymous Coward]

Well keep in mind the terms of service would be set by the website and would outline responsibility in the case of abuse etc. So they would likely just bill it to your account (if possible I havn't looked at the registration itself)

But it would be a bad idea to add some security to the program, maybe have it store the actual logon info encrypted and have you logon to the ordering software, or i suppose you can just have it not save your password to begin with...

Homer Says...

[FrankDrebin]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those. Mmmmmmm cluster.

XML Orders

[Maddog2030]

It would be cool if every pizza place could agree on XML format to accept orders so that someone could write a program to order it from anywhere, and have the program be able to get estimated times of delivery (based on how busy they are) from locations around you, and tell you all the specials different places were having.

The only thing is I doubt this would be practical with the risk for abuse...

Re:XML Orders

[BuckaBooBob]

Include GPS tracking... So you could have a real time ETA update :)

Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The Food

[bug506]

I stopped ordering from Domino's because the founder (Thomas Monaghan) is an extremely anti-gay right winger. He uses the millions he has earned to fund a lot of organizations that support his beliefs. He has every right to his opinion, but why should I give him money and indirectly support causes that would see people like me repressed?

http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/032003_ story06.htm

Shell script your way to a 2 large pizzas

[kyoko21]

Wow, I can't imagine what happens if someone writes a shell script and accidentally have it caught in an infinite loop.

Though you could put it in your cron job. :-)

see this

[polyp2000]

bash-2.05b# ./pizza_party
Can't locate Getopt/Mixed.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 .) at ./pizza_party line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./pizza_party line 14.

Re:see this

[Anonymous Coward]

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Getopt::Mixed'

Re:see this

[walt-sjc]

Yep, we see it. We see the clear sign that you know nothing about computers.

Soooo awesome

[Aqua OS X]

Ya know, some days I really hate all the BS that comes with new technology. Software licenses, permissions, restrictions, big brother, et al.

Yet, everyone once and a while, something like this comes along and I'm reminded of how awesome technology is.

Dominos pizza is something you only order when your drunk or high. Now you no longer have to make that obnoxious intoxicated phone call to Dominos. All you have to do is walk to the door, open it, say "errahh Hi, hehehe. Ohh ya, Pizza. Awesome. You're awesome. Pizza is awesome. errahh, Thanks."

Now, if only Dominos could invent a pizza printer to print out their nasty cracker pizza at home. The printer could have a tank of cheese, a tank of catsup pizza sauce, and a pepperoni stamp.

bash-2.05a$ pizza_party

[crimson_alligator]

pizza_party -p -m 1 large thick; yes; yes; yes; more; apt-get remove --purge dominos; make clean; sleep.

Yeah, but . . .

[alhaz]

It's really too bad that the commandline pizzas you can get from Dominoes are so much more bland than the Windows based pizzas you can get from Pizzahut or Papa Johna.

OK, didn't like that one? (though it's true, I haven't eaten Domeinoes in over a decade, because it is teh suck).

How about this one:

How long until we get the security advisory that says that a local attacker could order several pizzas in your name to be delivered to your home as a prank?

Been done. Years ago. With graphics.

[david.given]

Back in the days when Sun was a cool company, they produced a windowing system based around Display Postscript that was marginally X-compatible; OpenWindows. You may have heard of it.

One of the example programs was, allegedly, written by a bunch of hackers in the back of one of their offices in the middle of the night. It was so cool they cleaned it up a bit and released it.

Meet pizzatool. It'll let you pick one of several varieties of standard pizza, or make your own. It knows about different sizes. It would fax off your order for you. It came preprogrammed for their favourite pizza delivery place (I bet that place really regretted it when OpenWindows got distributed worldwide). And... it had a preview mode. It drew your pizza for you, right there on the screen.

And you could spin it with the mouse... but if you spun it too fast, all the toppings would run...

pizzatool was written entirely in object-oriented Postscript for the NeWS toolkit on OpenWindows. It's a shame that died; it was very, very cool...

Re:Been done. Years ago. With graphics.

[Temkin]

They had a couple internal variants that survived in to the 90's as X11 apps. I posted elsewhere about "Burritotool".

Temkin

I know where to put that...

[Tribbin]

/etc/cron.daily/

Pizza Party vulnerability

[Anonymous Coward]

Multiple vulnerabilities in 'pizza_party'

Re:Pizza Party vulnerability

[Prod_Deity]

When I first read this, the first thing I thought of was FREE PIZZA!!

Re:Pizza Party vulnerability

[Anonymous Coward]

LMFAO

The Slashdot worm is propagating lol!

Re:Pizza Party vulnerability

[N07I6X56]

consideration

Re:Pizza Party vulnerability

[musselm]

It may be true as stated in the "Full Disclosure" that someone can capture login/passwords and "cause confusion" by ordering many pizzas, but how is that more dangerous than some jerk with a cell-phone ordering twenty pizzas to be delivered as a prank to someone else?

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[jafiwam]

Yes. Rumor or true or whatever that information was responsible for _all_ of the Dominos pizza locations in Madison, WI disappearing in less than a year in the mid 90's. They were gone from the city until some time last year.

Yay progressive idiologies!

Anyway, Pappa Johns has ordering online (GUI) in case you are hungry.

Don't be suprised if the delivery guy is a little freaked out though, they aren't used to the online orders.

Already been done long ago

[Anonymous Coward]

We had something similar 10 years ago when I worked at Adobe. One of the programmers wrote a program that ordered burritos from a local restaurant. It had a drag and drop interface with icons representing toppings, and a "Fax" button that faxed the order in. Those burritos were tasty, but I can't remember the name of the restaurant.

dominos?

[chaos421]

the only real problem with this is that you actually have to eat dominos pizza to use this. i'm not sure about the rest of you, but i live in st paul and domino's pizza is probably the last joint i'd order from.

i haven't d/led the video yet, but what i'd like to know is if there's some sort of order confirmation/e.t.a./phone number to call incase they never show up/etc that shows up when your order submits...

Pizza Hut does this as well

[dicepackage]

I remember I tried to order a pizza at pizzahut.com and wanted to use my coupon. They have coupons on their site you could use but it wouldn't accept the coupon code for a paper coupon. In the end I didn't want to pay the extra four dollars even if it meant getting up and going downstairs so I had to call in the order.

Sun Microsystems... Back in the day...

[Temkin]

Way back when, like 10+ years ago... Sun Microsystems used to have "BurritoTool". Which allowed you to order a burrito from a local Mountain View burrito joint, and have it delivered to the lobby of your building. It was a pre-Web X11 application.

Hmmm... That might even be prior art...

Temkin

Re:Sun Microsystems... Back in the day...

[shiffman]

Actually, it goes back a little further. The first incarnation was Pizzatool, a NeWS (Postscript GUI) application that did a graphical display of the toppings as you selected them and then placed an order with Tony & Alba.

bloatware

[M. Piedlourd]

Don't run it too often, or we'll have to redefine "software bloat" to refer to the user.

Anti-abortion, too

[Broadcatch]

Dominos also contributes to pro-life organizations. How you feel about this is up to you, but being fully informed is a good thing IMHO.

And their pizza sucks (from what I've heard).

Support your locally owned pizzaria.

Re:Anti-abortion, too

[Just Some Guy]

Domino's doesn't support any such group, although the founder (who no longer has financial ties to the company) does.

Sounds like you're not quite as fully informed as you thought you were.

Re:Anti-abortion, too

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3624441.stm), Monaghan still owns 27% of the shares of Domino's (as of April 14, 2004). Enriching Domino's still enriches Monaghan, thus helping to fund these groups.

Awesome!

[Anonymous Coward]

Development at the technological bleeding edge! Who could have imagined 10 years ago that it would be possible to order Pizza from the command line. Humankind has truly advanced.

OK, so it sucks to be me

[mentaldrano]

This is great! Oh wait, it sucks. According to the Dominoes website, every place I have ever lived is outside the service area. I live in a college town, and it doesn't work. The LAST college town I lived in isn't hooked up either. WTF? Even ZIPs in large cites claim to be unavailable. College campuses in large cites near me are out of bounds! WHERE THE HELL CAN I BUY A PIZZA ON THE INTERNET?

Re:OK, so it sucks to be me

[Anonymous Coward]

College campuses in large cites near me are out of bounds! WHERE THE HELL CAN I BUY A PIZZA ON THE INTERNET?

Have you checked e-bay?

Re: Eat At Domino's!

[Zemplar]

"...the founder...is...extremely anti-gay..."??? Perhalps now I'll support Domino's more!

Re:Bad toppings

[Concerned Onlooker]

Hey! I didn't order pipes on this thing!

Beware!

[ajlitt]

This opens the floodgates to a slew of DDOH (distributed denial of hunger) attack.

for those of you in college areas

[MoneyT]

check out www.campusfood.com not a bad site, useful late at night when you're leaving the lab and on your way back to your dorm, schedule a delivery and it'll be there when you get there.

Slashdotted

[_ObSeSsIoN_]

Video has been slashdotted.....didn't take long :P jaimef ~ $ wget http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~peretti/cory_arcangel_ pizza_party/pizza_party.mpg --01:18:01-- http://xenia.media.mit.edu/%7Eperetti/cory_arcange l_pizza_party/pizza_party.mpg => `pizza_party.mpg' Resolving xenia.media.mit.edu... 18.85.3.135 Connecting to xenia.media.mit.edu[18.85.3.135]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Time to order a pizza and wait...:P

Re:Slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't order a pizza. Domino's pizza also got slashdotted. Probably good since the world needs programmers alive and not dying of heart attack.

Re:Slashdotted

[mightymik2]

and the guys at MIT can't order, cause there's no bandwidth left :)

Done that

[stockmaster]

While in grad school at the MIT AI Lab in early 1992, Michael Frank (now faculty at UFL) and I wrote "pizza" and "xpizza", command line and GUI programs (respectively) to order pizza from a nearby delivery joint. It worked by sending a fax to the pizza place. Even had code to determine whether the pizza would arrive before or after they locked the doors to each floor of our building, to provide different delivery instructions in each case. I'd be interested to learn if anyone can cite an earlier example of online pizza ordering.

Re:Done that

[krray]

Interesting -- had a similar implementation back in '88

I think I'll order tonight!

[green pizza]

Anti-gay, anti-abortion founder...

I think I'll order from Dominos tonight!

Damn, those were good burritos too...

[redwoodtree]

I miss that place. Can't even remember what it's called now, but they were HUGE. I think they set the guinness world record for largest burrito in fact.

Re:Bad toppings

[CODiNE]

Aaaackk!! There's a cat on my pizza!!

-Don.

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[Demogorgo]

5 gold manbabies for you good sir

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[Anonymous Coward]

will you release the code? it's very good.

fork error foretold

[eamonman]

Dear Lord, just think if some meathead TA or prof set 'pizza-party' as the name of some programming assignment, and then they teach fork.

Chaos, rebooting, and an angry pizza guy throw down would ensue.

Mmmm... Pizza

[swankypimp]

I knew it! As soon as I start the low carb diet, they come out with this Linux Killer App.

Damn you, Command Line, damn you, Dominos, and damn you, Dr. Robert C. Atkins! </Stewie>

Re:Mmmm... Pizza

[Whispers_in_the_dark]

Ok, so I'm going to burn some Karma, but from one low-carber to another... look up pizza crust here. There are several to choose from. Soy Flour is your friend! :)

Re:Mmmm... Pizza

[Zen Programmer]

--All your stolen base are belong to Rickey Henderson

I love your sig.

Re:Mmmm... Pizza

[Some Bitch]

10oz chopped frozen spinach
4 large eggs
1/4 teaspoon crushed garlic
salt & pepper to taste

1. Beat eggs
2. Chuck the rest in and mix.
3. Bake for 15 minutes on 400F.

You won't taste the spinach (this is why frozen is better, less taste) but you will get a base that tastes omelettey (i.e. goes well with cheese and other pizza type stuff) but is not greasy and can be eaten in slices like normal pizza :).

You can also use an omelette as a pizza base so long as you don't mind using a knife and fork ;).

Multiple vulnerabilities in 'pizza_party'

[PlusFiveTroll]

Pizza Party, how go get your password stolen by other geeks... Full-Disclosure

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember ordering papa johns online 4 years ago, this is nothing new man. Even back then, the guy wasn't freaked.

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd hit it!, again and again.

OMFG

[TamMan2000]

Somebody created an account named "ohsnap" just to say that, that is pretty funny...

Re:OMFG

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe he uses /. customizing features other than the defaults and thought this would be a good first foray into the glamorous slashdot posting lifestyle. Popped his cherry with a bang, or so to say.

Maybe he has another capped account and didn't want to lose precious karma from a potentially flammable comment.

Maybe ohsnap is TamMan2000.

Maybe we are all, in some small way, ohsnap.

Beware! ohsnap be among ye!

Re:OMFG

[volve]

Someone found the hidden 'extra crack' option I see...

-VolVE

Re:OMFG

[p-hawk42]

Dude, his number is lower than yours! I can't believe that you created an account just to reply to his post!

Re:OMFG

[SmittyTheBold]

No, that would be you!

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[Anonymous Coward]

You like shit on your pizza too?? Whoa, I thought I was the only one.

My girlfriend likes the bukkake calzone

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks

Re:Bad toppings

[nosphalot]

Thats Domino's for you. I think they call it the fur lovers.

Balls

[Anonymous Coward]

Neither my work zip (Mountain View, CA) nor my home zip (San Jose) have Dominos that do quickorder.

Silicon Valley my ass.

Sucks balls.

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Drift3r]

I'm now considering never ordering pizza from dominos ever again! Dominos is the best pizza place nearby, though. There is a pizza hut (sucks), a jet city (expensive), and dominos (founded by a bigot) within a 5 block radius, so it's going to be tough not to buy from them. Keep spreading the word, for if you didn't, I wouldn't have known that I was indirectly funding anti-gay organizations. It's one thing to have an opinion, it's another thing to actually express this opinion, and yet another thing to actually take action. According to you, this guy is *actively* trying to prevent you from gaining rights (which IMO you should have in the first place) and possibly supporting removal of rights you already posess, which is definitely more than an opinion. It really is so sad that many of the people with money and/or power turn out to be complete assholes.

RTFA your own article

[phoxix]

From the article itself ...

Thomas Monaghan is an American billionaire who made a fortune from the Domino's Pizza chain. By the time he sold it, he had used the profits to finance and raise an ultra-right politico-religious imperium.

Sunny Dubey

Re:RTFA your own article

[bug506]

Monaghan did sell Domino's, in that he no longer controls it. But he still controls 27% of the company, so he still makes a lot of money from it.

There's a Google cache of a cnn article here:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:KenjkJXJQ8QJ: money.cnn.com/2004/04/14/news/midcaps/dominos_ipo. reut/+%22Thomas+Monaghan%22+Domino%27s&hl=en

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Capybara]

He's sold the chain already, so you aren't giving him money. Your link says it, but also see this one.

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Anonymous Coward]

From the Serchlight Mag. article: "By the time he sold it , he had used the profits to finance and raise an ultra-right politico-religious imperium."

If it's sold, then there's no problem anymore. Or is it ?

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[Spudnewt]

LITTLE CEASERS! one time i saw a homeless man juggling with a little ceasers sign and he smoked a bowl of hashish drug weeds and ate a $5 medium pizza

Pizza Orders

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, Pizza Orders You!

Re:Pizza Orders

[Anonymous Coward]

You cannot believe how true this is. You are ordered. Don Pizza.

Pizza Hut Channel

[eamonman]

Hell, the do have GUIs. I've seen the pizza hut channel on Time Warner... that gui is really bad. Slow response, confusing navigation, damn fugly colors, and a sneaking suspicion that the whole thing was a joke that just went too far. I wish it would just drop to a command line and let me type(if it had a keyboard).

Re:Pizza Hut Channel

[astellar]

Yep. Frustrating. Why don't integrate Pizza Tool with SlashDot ? Just imagine another /. pool: choose the best Pizza delivery boy of this week: 1... 2... 3... and, of course, as usual 4. CowboyNeal.

Make mine with extra pineapple and anchovies

[spirit_fingers]

It's about time /. posted some useful information for a change.

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[microTodd]

Man, Little Caesar's. I was a manager there for 4 years. My favorite damn pizza out of the "fast food" chains (Dominos, PizzaHut, PapaJohns, Hungry Howies).

Unfortunately, where I live they were all bought out by Merlin's. No more LC for me. :-(

So now I don't order delivery "fast food" pizza anymore. My wife and I go search out the "hole-in-the-wall" joints. The pizza at those places is far, far superior.

Or I just make my own at home. She bought me a pizza stone for Christmas last year, its great!

Pizza party? MORE LIKE SAUSAGE FEST!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd hate to see the lame ass excuse for a party the average user of "pizza party" would throw.

"YOU GOT GREASE ON MY NEW D6 BIIIATCCH"

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Just Some Guy]

Title of linked article: "Disciples of blood"

Claims from the article:

Monaghan's largesse has served an array of unpleasantness around the world: Latin American death squads, anti-abortion and anti-gay extremists, theocratic Christian nationalists, faith-based fascists and covert CIA operations.

That's right! Your neighborhood pizza store used to help fund the CIA.

Yep. That's why I order from Pizza Hut - they have the NSA in their back pocket and are much cooler.

Honestly, I'm sure you could've picked a more believable source to cite.

Pizza OSS fantasy

[Anonymous Coward]

[Friday night, long day...]

Have all the pizza shops put in ICBM meta-tags, and have an xml menu which includes specials. This will also require a common pizza request protocol, as well as a suitable acronym or clever word-play. Pizza ordering protocol could work but it's not clever enough- PRP over PGP might work, and hey, if we just call this thing POP without ever defining it officially, we can confuse people which is a bonus.

Ok, so then let us geeks aggregate the data any which way we want. We may wish to extend this framework to add ratings and trust networks, but it is not strictly necessary. Allowing different implementations is important- just like some people like anchovies, some people prefer different GUIs, and others will remain staunch command-line types. A competition between gPop and KPop would be welcome, and I'm sure the folks on Mac will have options too. Let's not port it to windoze, lest we buttress the hegemony of that platform.

Inevitably, such data will lead to interesting avenues for scholarly research. We could have a GIS map of different pizza recipes. Where are anchovies most popular? Urban/Rural? Overlay with census information, and we could find out different class, gender and ethnic influences.

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[seichert]

Thomas Monaghan does NOT own Domino's pizza anymore. He sold it to Bain Capital Inc. for $1 billion in 1998. Please mod the parent post down, it is certainly not informative.

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/domino.asp

Whatever

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

Tell me when I can order pizza from Stromboli on 1st Ave. through the command line.

Tim

Capitalism rears its ugly head (again)

[mtz206]

Wonderful - now with only a few keystrokes I can ensure that capitalism is better served through our computing efforts. Yay!

Vulns reported to [Full-Disclosure]

[nfsilkey]

This came to me at 3:17pm CST ...

Product: pizza_party
URL: http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/pizza_party/
Ver sion: pizza_party 0.1.beta and earlier
Risk: Multiple vulnerabilities (high)

Description:

pizza_party is a Perl based command line tool that provides a non-Web interface to
Dominos Pizza's QuikOrder(TM) website pizza ordering service by using HTTP over
the Internet.

It is third-party open-soruce software, developed by an individual and unsupported by
Dominos Pizza.

Available at:
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/pizza_party/ downl oad/pizza_party -0.1.b.tar.gz

I believe it may now be in use internally at a large number of corporate organizations
(primarily by hard-core coder types who are too focused on the task at hand to get up
and go out to get a pizza -- or even to lift up the phone to order one), and installations
can also be found on the public Internet.

The Problem:

pizza_party is very bad about protecting the username and password for
the Dominos Pizza QuikOrder website. This may lead to a multitude of
vulnerabilities, the most dangerous being that 'ps' can be used to observe
the command line input parameters on the stack passed via the shell.

Also the non-SSL (unencrypted) web interface (http://www.dominos.quikorder.com)
is used over the Internet, so anyone who can capture (sniff) the traffic could easily
obtain the Dominos QuikOrder username and password from the standard base64-
encoded POST to the website.

Either would allow for individuals other than the owner of the Dominos Pizza
account to order arbitrary pizzas (with random toppings even) via the Dominos
QuikOrder web server and have them delivered -- resulting in chaos, anarchy
and confusion.

Additionally, there may be other issues resulting from the misuse of this package.
It is impossible to tell what other uses might be made of the username/password
pair stolen (it might be used by the use for all of their accounts on the Web f'instance).

Also note that as the order is sent unencrypted it may be possible for a MITM attack
to tamper with the order (potentially adding anchovies, onions or other undesirables).

The Fixes:

1. pizza_party should use HTTP over SSL to order the pizza's from Dominos
'secure' QuikOrder website: https://www.dominos.quikorder.com/

Unfortunately there are some problems with the Web certificate for this site.

2. pizza_party should prompt the command line user for the username and
password and read them from /dev/tty rather than accept them as params
on the command line.

3. pizza_party should also overwrite the store of the username and password
(or encrypt them) when they are in memory or an attacker could steal them
from RAM, or a swapfile on disk.

- H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM
University Information Security Officer
Director -- Information Security Office
Yale University, ITS

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Drift3r]

That's a relief, now I can actually buy dominos pizza and not feel bad about it!

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[jdkane]

It's slightly obvious that "Searchlight the international anti-facist magazine" who published the story is as dangerously intolerant as it makes others out to be and seems to exude as much hatred towards those it disagrees with. One questions is, if the Domino guy is intolerant in some ways, then does intolerance towards him fix the situation?

Some of the opinionated words used in the story are:
anti-(fill in vice here) extremists
extreme
cultish
sketchy
blatantly fascist

Whatever happened to telling the facts without providing and opinion? Opinions tend to turn people off.

Sounds like somebody has it in for somebody else. The article would be much more palattable if it didn't have so much opinion injected into it. Looks like it's just out to paint the worst picture possible, and does a good job at it.

There are usually pieces of truth in anything, no matter how one-sided the representation of the facts are. It would be nice to read some more level-headed, balanced material. Folks, don't jump on the bandwagon too fast without getting a balanced perspective. This magazine definitely does not exude that. Take a look through it. They're into the idea of "anti-fascist" so deeply that they can not see the forest for the trees.

Now the perfect reply to this would be to call me a fascist pig. ;)

But is it compatible with MIT pizza command?

[pyrrhonist]

The MIT AI lab had a pizza command years ago. I'm not going to post the entire man page, but here are some excepts from the 1991 man page. The BUGS section is especially amusing. Enjoy...

PIZZA(1) USER COMMANDS PIZZA(1)

NAME
pizza - "Hi-Fi Pizza" food-by-fax delivery orderer for the
MIT AI Lab

SYNOPSIS
pizza [-d(ebug)] [-h(elp)] [-m(ail)] [-s(leep)] [-t(est)]

xpizza [-d(ebug)] [-h(elp)] [-m(ail)] [-n(osleep)] [-t(est)]

DESCRIPTION
Pizza is a program that allows denizens of the MIT AI Lab to
order food for delivery from "Hi-Fi Pizza" (496 Mass Ave.)
quickly and easily. Pizza saves time by automatically gen-
erating and faxing an order that includes the user's phone
and office number, and contains delivery instructions that
vary depending on whether the inner lab doors are currently
open or not. Pizza also checks to see whether Hi-Fi is
currently open for business, and warns the user if it's not.

BUGS
The delivery instructions may no longer be valid by the time
the food arrives (e.g., if Pizza is run just before 5pm).
Also, Pizza doesn't know about holidays.

The global Locations file should contain the physical loca-
tion of every machine in the lab, plus locations for lounges
and conference rooms.

It would be nice if Pizza had a variety of restaurants to
choose from.

Some of the employees at Hi-Fi don't know how to work the
fax.

If the food arrives after hours, you have to be near your
phone when the driver calls up, and you have to physically
get up and go to the elevator lobby to get the food. Also,
you have to have money to pay for the food. What a pain!

NON-COPYRIGHT
Created 1991 by Michael Frank and Mark Torrance. This
software is public domain.

Re:But is it compatible with MIT pizza command?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the University of Michigan did this first with the *pizzadelivery command on the old MTS mainframes. Of course, it may not have actually worked.

Re:But is it compatible with MIT pizza command?

[self assembled struc]

funny i live in nyc now, but i miss hi-fi after a night of drinking at the middle east...

Dominos?

[Cyno01]

Uhg, somebody do this for Papa Johns instead...

Thanks for the mirror but....

[IamGarageGuy 2]

Worst...video...ever 2 guys ordering pizza nuf said

Re:Thanks for the mirror but....

[Anonymous Coward]

Worst...video...ever 2 guys ordering pizza nuf said

"nuf said"? Idiot, you missed "FROM THE COMMAND LINE". That video was hilarious.

New Denial of Service Attack

[dankney]

It's all good until somebody writes a worm that orders pizzas for the Whitehouse. Denial of service for the rest of DC ...

rather ironic

[david_594]

watching the video i just found it rather ironic that a person writing software under the GNU General Public License would be the type of person to use AIM instead of an opensource alternative like GAIM.

Obligatory Simpsons Reference

[jayveekay]

Scene: Officer Lou and Chief Wiggum in police car, trying to be inconspicuous.

Wiggum tells Lou to pretend they're a pizza company. Wiggum puts a "Pizza" sign over the police lights on top of the car.

Lou: "But Chief, what if they like pizza?"

Wiggum : "Way ahead of you." Wiggum then sticks a Domino's Pizza sticker over the Springfield Police Department logo on the side of the car.

No Anchovies Please!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Whats the command line option to not include anchovies? I looked at the man page but didn't see it.

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[e r i k 0]

MOD PARENT DOWN! This is a redirect to a shock site.

VIDEO MIRROR

[generationxyu]

http://www.generationxyu.com/pizza_party.mpg

MS-Pizza

[EABinGA]

Coming soon: Microsoft will buy Domino's Pizza and will include MS-Pizza in their new OS.

Re:I was just working on a script like this

[simcop2387]

not only that its a few different shock sites, i was showing this script to my mom!

I got the pizza before the cheese melted...

[BetterThanCaesar]

I think I'll call it a fancy cheese sandwich.

If only...

[Anonymous Coward]

If only those guys had put the effort into getting in shape, they could get girls. I mean, that look like girls.

Anybody can get pizza.

60% of America is overwieght...

[NEOtaku17]

Who cares! So are almost all professional football players and just about anyone who does serious bodybuilding. Weight has almost nothing to do with health or fatness. I know there are health problems in America but saying that because 60% of people are overwieght, 60% of people are fat is just completely wrong. Just look at a bodybuilder magazine and compare their hieght with their wieght and then check the formula for determining overwight people.What you find is alot of super healthy people are infact "overwieght" but are not fat in the slightest.

Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right.

But the simple truth is that most people are fat and overweight and out of shape. And I think the 60% number is being kind, particularly if you only include people over 21.

This suggests to me that you're a chunky guy who refuses to lose weight.

Lose the weight. You'll feel a lot better, you'll find your bowel problems will go away, and you'll look better (not to mention living longer).

Stop hiding behind the "its all muscle" routine. That wore thin about 3000 years ago.

Re:Well...

[NEOtaku17]

I'm a martial artist and I wiegh 135lbs at 5'5(just FYI)

Hmmm....the voice from that video...

[Anonymous Coward]

sounds exactly like the one from the hustler college girls series...

It'd have been nice to see Jenna Haze ordering pizza with a couple geeks ;)

An inevitable spinoff

[heretic108]

$ escort --gender=female --min-age=22 --max-age=35 --hair=blonde --physique=athletic --ethnicity=any --specialities=bdsm,whipped-cream --attire=nurse

Re:An inevitable spinoff

[shish]

done already, look at the manpage for "date" ;)

(you need funny-manpages installed though. I still get a few paragraphs into the funny pages before I realise that they're not the documentation I'm looking for :)

Re:GEEKS!... ugh, one of these..

[cbreaker]

Let me guess, you also don't watch TV anymore and you tell everyone every chance you get?

Domino's and Papa Johns are fine. It might not be "authentic" bullshit from some overpriced crap, but I think it's just fine for most occations where you just want a few slices of pizza.

Re:GEEKS!... ugh, one of these..

[MoneyT]

Actualy I watch plenty of TV, but Papa Johns is not good pizza. It's not shit like Pizza Hut or Dominos but it's not good pizza either.

Perfect

[ghost1911]

Now I can set up a crontab and not bother going to get lunch on friday...

30 12 * * * 5 /home/method/pizzaparty -u ...

Troll script bug report

[Cid Highwind]

Your script crashes epiphany 1.2.5 (built with mozilla 1.6). All I got was a javascript warning with the standard goatse.cx disclaimer ("Our lawyers tell us this site needs a disclaimer..."), then epiphany froze without displaying any shocking and/or offending images.

I had no idea this site has that kind of capacity

[saroth2]

... , to bring the MIT media lab's servers to their knees.
http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~peretti/cory_arcangel_ pizza_party/pizza_party.mpg

Am I the only one that spotted the typo in the vid

[AtariDatacenter]

In the video, right as they start typing in a command line order for pizza, above the line, you'll see "See the man page for more details on accounts, confiuration files, and batch ordering."

I don't think I've ever reported a typo that I've observered from a video.

Better yet....

[MtViewGuy]

...How about a script to work with any Papa Murphy's store? They make way better pizzas than Papa John's, though you do have to bakethe Papa Murphy's pizza yourself.... (shrug)

Re:Better yet....

[Anonymous Coward]

God no. Papa Murphy's is goddamn awful. I can't explain what it is, I just know it tastes horrific. Maybe it's that crappy cheese they use. Maybe because it's not cooked in a real pizza oven. I dunno.

Frozen pizza tastes better than Papa Murphy's.

Re:I had no idea this site has that kind of capaci

[Little Brother]

It's not us, it's every student at MIT ordering Pizza at the same time...

pizzaparty vulnerabilities

[denthijs]

On Fri, 07 May 2004 16:17:37 EDT, "H. Morrow Long" said:

> Product: pizza_party
> URL: http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/pizza_party/
> Version: pizza_party 0.1.beta and earlier
> Risk: Multiple vulnerabilities (high)

And in classic form, Slashdot ran an article about pizza_party at 7:47PM...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/07/1382 38 &mode=nocomment

So a bunch of people probably downloaded the vulnerable version...

Ok but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it free as in speech or free as in pizza?

Enough of the "want papajohns jokes":

[Darth Fredd]

I want an option to order a Ninja Burger! True quality, fast and cheap! ..granted, you might have replace a window/doorframe/wall or two, but it's worth it, right?

Pizza Orders

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, You Order Pizza!

Re:GEEKS!... ugh, one of these..

[Anonymous Coward]

I wouldn't rank Papa John's as "ideal pizza". That you have to go to the local pizzaria or italian restaurant for. But I'd still say it is every bit as good as the other type of pizza. (So it's good food, just not good pizza)

I don't know why none of the other pizza chains realize that a good sauce makes the pizza.

Linux Killer App!

[MysticalMatt517]

Finally! A killer app for Linux!

What an Accomplishment

[POLAX]

There are many things our forefathers in computing such as Dennis Ritchie and Donald Knuth might not understand if they were frozen in carbonite and woke up in 2004...but this they would not only understand but would be damned proud!

It's written in Perl !!!! Wouhou

[fprog]

It's written in Perl !!!! Would you like some Perl topping on your Pizza? Maybe with some Parrot topping too? With Pepperonni and Cheeze? Any Pepper?

Vending Machines Too...

[WarriorX99]

For a while at one of the national labs, they had a command line interface for the vending machines to let people know if there was any coke left before they left their desk to get it. It's not delivery, but hey, it's still cool. If it wasn't for the fact that I dislike Dominos, I'd order a pizza with this software!

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Crazy Eight]

You Fascist Pig!

There, happy now? :)

Funny story slightly related to topic

[2short]

Well this app would really kill it, but remember for a moment the days when we had no choice but to look up phone numbers on paper, and called them ourselves... At some conference I was talking (drinking) with some Marketing guys, and one of them told the story of what he considered the best marketing ploy ever:

So there's this small college town where the local place, let's call it Al's Pizza, had been relatively competition free for a long time until a new Domino's Franchise sprouted up. Domino's promptly began killing Al's. Al tries various promotions, specials, deals, etc. of his own devising. Doesn't help. Damn college kids are just flocking to Domino's, Al's is going down the tubes. At some point Al gets a pitch from some guy who claims to be a marketing consultant. Al says OK, tell me what to do, if I'm still in business a year from now, you get paid.
So this guy goes around to the student center, dorm lounges, etc. and says "Hey, anybody want pizza? You order, I'm buying." (a hard sell I'm sure) Guy watches as every time the college kids pull out the yellow pages and read the number for Domino's off the big full-page ad. Guy notes the much smaller, consistently ignored "Al's" ad on the facing page. Guy goes back to Al and says "OK, here's what you're going to do..."
The next week, the campus is flooded with flyers from Al's proclaiming "A large one-topping pizza for ONE DOLLAR with this coupon and the Domino's ad from your yellow pages". In a matter of days, no one knows Domino's phone number any more. Consultant gets paid. Al runs this promo yearly, just to be sure.

alas...

[Anonymous Coward]

We come for subsistence
yet leave with an empty feeling
for Images have been removed
because of slashdotting...

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Superliminal]

The pizza chains, with help from the CIA, are going to take over the Moral Minority. Fnord.

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe you shouldn't believe what stupid people on Slashdot say. Try thinking for yourself.

Maybe we'll see the birth of a new worm...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that automatically orders food (such as pizza) whenever you type your address into a form in good 'ol IE...

"mmm, unexplained bacon..."

Wireless interface

[ChiralSoftware]

Maybe I should create a wireless interface to it...

You forgot the Stewie obligatory...

[evilviper]

Blast!

What about drinks?

[DotNM]

From what I've seen (only watched the video), you can only order pizzas. What if I wanted to order some pop with it? They should add the ability to order coke.... lots and lots of coke.

where are the options

[hswerdfe]

option for location to deliver to?
option for a timed delivery?
option for pickup?
option for payment method?

oh and guess what OS was running in the video...

Cygwin anyone?

On unix we call it "fastcgi"

[Ayanami Rei]

Re:On unix we call it "fastcgi"

[cscx]

That's it! I couldn't remember how it worked with Apache since I haven't seen it used very often, but now I recall mod_fastcgi.

Re:GEEKS!... ugh, one of these..

[ratsnapple tea]

Let me guess, you also don't watch TV anymore and you tell everyone every chance you get?

Ha, you mean like this guy?

FWIW, I agree that pizza from Papa John's tastes like poo. Their garlic breadsticks are great, though...

DDoP?

[Xenographic]

What happens when someone ports it to Windows and someone else releases the PizzaBlaster worm?

Distributed Denial of Pizza?

The authors would be hunted down by every programmer on the planet, including me!

Oh well, if they're like other programmers, they'd starve to death if they went long enough without pizza and the ramen reserves didn't hold out...

Re:DDoP?

[Zegnar]

Best...post...ever *wishes for mod points* Distributed Denial of Pizza... thats going into my IM ScreenName

Re:DDoP?

[Anonymous Coward]

You take DDOP, I'll take "RamenReserve"-- kind of like SPecial Forces aint it

Re:DDoP?

[Anonymous Coward]

Distributed Pizza Service: Order for the whole street pizza's with only one, single command!

My neighbors are already DDoSing my door to fix their computers. Now they'll DDoS the door even more for pizza's!

Qdine.com

[a1cypher]

Actually, this reminds me of an interesting project I worked on a while back. Qdine.com It basically is a site that lists a bunch of menus from a variety of restaurants in various cities, and you fill out your order, and goto checkout and the orders faxed to the restaurant who then bill you and deliver you your food.

After the first order, it would allow ordering with just two or three clicks. Kinda neat for people who order the same thing frequently.

Re:GEEKS!... ugh, one of these..

[cbreaker]

That's exactly it, it's all about the sauce. Cheeze is cheeze, and the dough can only take you so far. But the sauce is what contains all the major flavor.

I think Papa John's is better pizza then most of the little hole in the wall greasy pizza parlors. Those always taste the same; cheap. Papa John's pizza has a sweet sauce that I think it pretty good. And I like how they embed the toppings in the cheeze, and the garlic sauce is just plain tastey.

I have only had domino's pizza a few times but from what I tasted it was just fine. Tastey and filling.

I don't know what your idea of pizza is, I guess. I mean, to me, it's the traditional american pizza - dough, sauce, cheeze, and conventional toppings like pepperoni and mushrooms. That's the common pizza in the northeast, at least. All that gormet pizza crap just isn't pizza anymore, it's a whole different type of food.

Over here in Pawtucket, RI, the best pizza you can get is at Uncle Tony's Pizza. Mmmmm, so good. Their sauce is very very good and the whole thing is just absolutely delicious. And it's not some fancy crap pizza, it's just your normal pie.

Dominos are scary reactionary nazis

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.web.net/~ara/documents/news/dominos.htm

Read this before giving them any money for their bad pizas.

Allow me to introduce you to Captain Obvious

[mattwarden]

Look, man, I don't want to call you an idiot for not recognizing the humor...

... but I really don't know many synonyms for the word.

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[welshsocialist]

You're not the only one criticial of Searchlight. Groups of the British Far-Right hate it as well. Among these is Spearhead , a magazine published by John Tyndall, the founder of the British National Party. Spearhead has written an article on Searchlight .

DISCLAIMER: By linking to the resources above, I do not agree with the contents provided therein. I despise Nazis, Fascists, and other bigots in every shape and form.

This is old news

[freeJustin]

$ links dominos.quikorder.com works great.

Hot

[PingPongBoy]

Pizza is okay but I don't like it cold. Once pizza comes out of the oven I can have a few hot slices but it invariably cools down before I can finish it now imagine what would happen if it was delivered it might be really cold by the time it gets there

What we really need is an automatic pizza maker to make pizza from the command line

Most of the time Dragon NaturallySpeaking was able to get it right there were a few corrections here and there nothing serious

Oh BOY!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

WOW I get to order something which is akin to me shitting on some dog shit that was on some goat shit that was on a pile of rotten cabbage that was on the dessicated remains of 40,000 camel penises sitting on top of a moldy swamp...pretending to be pizza for the command line...wow that's soo fun I think I might just cut my cock in two in joy

Re:Bad toppings

[Anonymous Coward]

You think thats bad, someone has fscked my pizza. I'd know that taste anywhere.

--force?

[MikeyO]

At first I thought, aww cmon, I could write this! I'll just write a script that sends email to my wife that says, "Hey Honey order us a pizza with peppers and onions", and thats it. But then I read the Documentation and saw that one of the command line options is:

-F|--force
Order your pizza without asking for a confirmation.

and then i realized that there was no way that my implementation could provide such an option.

Reminds me of an old OpenWindows application...

[GLevangelist]

Screenshot: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.g if

I can't quite decide which is more appealing; The scriptable nature of a CLI app or being able to directly arrange toppings on a Display Postscript rendered pizza.

This was already done 10-15 years ago....

[salsbury]

I realize that mamy people don't study history (even the relatively short history of computers), so we're doomed to repeat it. And while this idea is cute (and good!), it's hardly new. Sun Microsystems had "PizzaTool" built into OpenWindows as far back as ~1990-1991, and while it's hardly fashionable to mention here, SCO (yes, them...back before the Suits & Lawyers took over and they became "Un-Cool") had the first web-based pizza ordering tool, in 1993-1994. It was called "PizzaNet" and ordered from Pizza Hut. Domino's wasn't online yet. In fact, neither was Pizza Hut! :-)

PizzaTool used a GUI to let you select your toppings, crust, etc., and even provided a cute little graphical rendition of your pizza which you could "spin" to get all the various pixels to blend together and simulate the melted cheese, etc. I think it was written using their "NeWS" system. It ordered by FAX and went to Tony & Alba's Pizza, which has been a consistent favorite in the SF Bay Area for at least 15 years or so. It even had a cool warning that popped up when you hit the "order" button that said (roughly) "WARNING! This is about to send a *real* FAX to a *real* pizza parlor, who will deliver a *real* pizza and ask you for *real* money! Are you sure you want to continue?"

Since my friends and I were in school in Buffalo, NY at the time, we were pretty sure they wouldn't deliver to us, but it definitely gave us an early glimpse into the importance of pizza in the workplace in early Silicon Valley culture, not to mention introducing me to the existence of Tony & Alba's! (When I moved here a couple years later, I made a pilgrimage and they've been a favorite ever since.) This only worked in Mountain View, CA, at the time, but that's where Sun was concentrated then. (Still is.) Tony & Alba's has 7 shops around the Bay Area, now, and their own website - http://www.tonyalba.com/

PizzaNet used a web-to-FAX system that would submit the order using the existing Pizza Hut FAX ordering system, and your pie would arrive in about 1/2 hour. I used it once around May/June of 1994 and it worked wonderfully. This one only worked around Santa Cruz, CA, but again, that's where SCO was concentrated, then. It was written by my friend, Steph, who had been the IS Director at SCO for years at that point, and knew that Engineers were mainly fueled by pizza and caffeine (still are!) so he made sure pizza was easily available at the touch of a few keys. (There were free soda fountains in all SCO buildings.) This SCO "easy pizza" policy, like the Corporate Hot Tub, also went away as the "Age of the Suits" began to take over in the mid-late 1990's.

The neat thing about both systems, aside from providing a really geeky way to get pizza (which obviously still amuses us to this day, given this article's appearance on /. ), was that they both interfaced with the existing FAX-based systems the pizza parlors had in place, and didn't bother any of the pizza makers/delivery folks with any new interfaces or computer details, allowing them to focus on what they did best, and allowing us to get pizza easily. (Remember that both of these were many years before most people/businesses had even *heard* of the Internet, and in the case of PizzaTool, before the WWW even existed! When did *you* first hear of them?)

There are lots of good ideas floating around. Especially in computers and software. However, there are far fewer that are actually original or new ideas. Dig into the history a bit. It's fun, and you'll likely be surprised. You may also save yourself a whole lot of coding-time. :-)

-Pat

Any unsuccessfull dating attempts lately?

[trezor]

That was pure genius, I must admit. But for anyone who can generate such an accurate Eliza conversation... I just have to ask:

Have you by any chance tried to hit on an Eliza-bot in your earlier days? :) *grin*

Re:Any unsuccessfull dating attempts lately?

[nacturation]

Heh... well, I had a bit of help for the Eliza responses but the Domino's lines are original. As I explained in another reply, I sometimes had to try several different ways of phrasing from the Domino's dude in order to get a sensible response but the output from Eliza is actually genuine.

It's all about the Pizza Button

[shinybeast]

The keyboard on the i-opener (I bought my Mom one of these) had a pizza button that would send you to the nearest pizza website. Screw the command line. Pizza buttons rule.

In england...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've looked to see if anyone's mentioned this, and I don't think they have, but why go to all that hassle when you can order online (in England at least, I'm not sure about elsewhere) with all the fancy graphical bells and whistles that allows? Just go to www.dominos.co.uk and click 'order online'. I've used it many times and it's a lot more appealing than a command line... (or less, depending on what kind of person you are.)

Shapla, mmmmmmm

[CBDSteve]

You live in Selly Oak and you're eating pizza??
Man, you've got the best Balti places on the planet outside your house... :-)

Re:Shapla, mmmmmmm

[Doug Neal]

Don't I know it... my vegetable jalfrezi balti addiction is getting quite concerning ;)

/bin/bash/mypizza

[pandrijeczko]

#!/bin/bash
#
# Pizza Customiser Script
#
grep pepperoni MeatFeast.txt >> MyPizza
grep chillis Inferno.txt >> MyPizza
grep mushrooms Farmhouse.txt >> MyPizza
grep sausauge Italiano.txt >> MyPizza
mail orders@dominos.co.uk MyPizza
#

Easy, huh?

CyberJesus ?

[gomel]

who do you think you are, Jesus ?

multipling frutti di mare and anchovis ?

Works on Windows

[KJKHyperion]

Windows version Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 with Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (both fully patched). Perl distribution and version perl 5.6.1, ActivePerl Build 633. Notes

pizza_order works almost out of the box, with just a few adjustments required:

• pizza_order depends on the Getopt::Mixed package, not installed by default in this version of ActivePerl. Just run "ppm install Getopt::Mixed" as a Power User or Administrator while an Internet connection is active;
• the command prompt will try to run extension-less files as Windows or DOS executables, so you either need to rename the file as "pizza_order.pl" and add the .pl extension to the %PATHEXT% variable, or convert the script into a batch file with the pl2bat command shipped with ActivePerl. I recommend the former until I find a better solution;
• the documentation is in the usual nroff format. Either get Windows ports of man, less and nroff, or (much better) run a man-to-HTML converter, and optionally wrap the HTML document in a CHM and install it as a system documentation file (I forgot how to do this, but it isn't hard to find out).

I don't have a Dominoes account, so I can't really confirm it works. But it runs up until the authentication, so I'll assume it does.

Oh, and on Windows process command lines aren't world-readable, so it's safe to pass the password with the -P option.

Re:Works on Windows

[KJKHyperion]

Ooops. Replace all occurrences of "pizza_order" with "pizza_party"

Re:Don't Eat At Domino's, And Not Because Of The F

[Anonymous Coward]

ummm... if you live in the US everything you buy helps fund the CIA.

Would you like kittens on your pizza?

[papercut2a]

But...I've been ordering pizza over the net for years! Just use the Internet Pizza Server! http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/ As an added bonus, read up on their discussion of Domino's Pizza vs. Armor Plating: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizzaburn.html

Yes I'll have 2^32 - 1 pizzas to go..

[rofthorax]

Send them to every IP address please..

beats 'man pizza'

[ungerware]

Wow, this is a step up from what we had at my school. We actually had to make the call ourselves, though the system did have it's own way of helping out:

Device and Network Interfaces PIZZA(7)

NAME
pizza, chinese, food - order take-out food in the WashU area.

SYNOPSIS
569-3463 Dining Express (Delivers food from various local
restaurants)

962-0898 Hunan Wok Chinese Restaurant

862-0009 Cicero's Restaurant (Pizza and other Italian)

726-3030 Domino's Pizza

862-4667 Imo's Pizza

367-7272 Papa John's Pizza

647-4434 Pizza Hut

644-2000 Pointer's Pizza

727-6699 Sub Express

EXAMPLES
To order a Domino's Pizza, dial "726-3030" and answer all questions the phone asks of you.

BUGS
A few of the places are often lazy and late. Don't forget to ask about delivery charges and if they _really_ know how to get here.
The list is incomplete. Send updates to requests@cts.wustl.edu.

online pizza order in canada

[xpyr]

damnit, why can't us canadians have some kind of online pizza order system? the phone just seems so old tech.