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Working iPod Halloween Costume
Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"
As the site's dead and mirrordot hasn't pulled a copy of it, I managed to mirror it:u /~jwinick/Halloween2004/
http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/www.eecs.umich.ed
Hey numbnutz, there's nothing with his sentence.
They conjugate funny on the other side of the pond
is all.
Were that I say, pancakes?
Yeah, but the submitted story guy's iPod costume actually works!
coralized link to eecs server is working.
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
The server may have survived longer if the images had been actually resized. Many are 500KB - 1MB each, html resized to 800x600. I'm trying to make a mirror of the mirror and use true resized images but I'm getting about 500 bytes/sec.
It looked to me like a lot of work for a pretty shity looking costume.
I need this box to do my project work and you submitted it to slashdot?!?!
/.ers as it is much too small, put your shit onto caen's boxes
Please don't ever put eecs up to the
- I am made of jelly. Do you see?
- I think you will find you are just inside a jelly.
English is easier said than done.
Chicago is the font Apple uses on the iPod (but not on the iPod Mini). Back in the day it was the font for all the Mac's menus and dialog boxes, later replaced by Charcoal and--today--Lucida Grande, IIRC. Here is a scan of my iPod's screen so you can see Chicago in all its glory.
There's more info about Apple's fonts on Wikipedia, but for some reason Slashdot won't let me link to it. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_fonts
I think it's related to "St. Paulie Girl" brand beer.
they brought the server back up but http is down. Only grad students have shell accounts to eecs. so all of us in the labs here are pissed as hell at him. If he'd put it on his engin space they would have just laughed at the spike, but eecs is a research server that's quite tiny (I don't know the specs off hand)
I'd say rm -rf ~/* under his name and delete the account. A whole lot of us are stuck up here working without access to course websites.
What you posted is a commonly held myth. The only connection between the pagan rituals of europe and halloween is that christians dressed up as demons, ghosts out of fun and to mock the formerly held superstitions of Europeans. Some neo-pagans might think they are "reviving" old paganism but what they believe in bares little resemblance to old pagan religions.
Stop blaming christians for the invading germanic tribes wiping out the celts.
Samhaim had nothing to do with people dressing up like red devils with pitch forks or as witches or the dead. http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm Yes, halloween was instituted to make light of various pagan rituals/beliefs.
Bonfires were common among the pagan cultures of northern europe and are not unique to Samhain.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
"retardation"?
Um, why? Because it's a Microsoft OS? Have you used one?
My TabletPC has been very useful since I bought it in January of 2003. Have I been brainwashed, not realizing that I've actually been taking notes for almost 2 years on an Etch-A-Sketch? Powerful FUD indeed!
What if the Hokey-Pokey really is what it's all about?