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Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500
thanksforthecrabs writes to let us know that the Linux-sponsored Indy 500 car had a rough day at the track this weekend: it was the first car to crash on the track and finished dead last. Joost sponsored a car that came in a respectable seventh.
Oblig: Of course it crashed because of a bad driver.
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
Moral of the story: Linux doesn't have good uptimes when you run it on unstable hardware.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Are there any photos or videos available of the crash? I'm all for linux, but seeing Tux splashed all over the road should be an interesting sight.
That's impossible; everyone knows Linux can't crash. He must have been dual-booting Windows.
The penguin couldn't see over the dashboard.
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Obviously he couldn't see through his.
Everyone here's gonna post some smartass comment about it all so just have a bot go through and give everyone +5 Funny to save time as well as valuable mod points.
I like basketball!!1!
we must be gracious and magnaminous and say, damm i hate it when that happens.
now we know how Bill Gates feels
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's hard to find drivers for Linux.
Poor driver support as usual.
That reminds me when Sun Microsystems fielded the only yacht to have ever sunk in the Americas Cup. Sun had this tongue-in-cheek orientation video with a "thrill of victory / agony of defeat" section that showed the video clip of their yacht, with the Sun logo prominently emblazoned on the side, going to Davey Jones' Locker.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Everyone, try not to Panic!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them...
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
A penguin walks into an auto repair shop. "There's oil all over the motor and I have to add oil every day," she says. The mechanic says it will take an hour to check out so the penguin leaves.
It's a hot day, and not being an African penguin doesn't like the heat and decides to get an ice cream cone to cool off.
Of course, hot as it is it drips all over her chest. An hour later she goes to check on her car.
"Looks like you blew a seal," the machanic says.
"Oh, no," laughs the penguin, "That's just ice cream."
I blame the WINE.
People are panicking? Why are they panicking, is something wrong? And why say "TRY not to," is it so bad that panic is almost a certainty? FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT AREN'T YOU TELLING US?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Balmer can now "honestly" say that Linux is the first to crash.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yudhishtira#Drona.27
...is not the year of Linux on the Racetrack.
Considering it didn't have windows.
There was a slashdot story about it, so you have no reason to complain HERE about not knowing about it.
Actually, there almost wasn't a story here; out of about twenty or twenty-five submissions that I saw cross the firehose on various days, only one was not written by a complete fucking idiot.
Some had the URL only in the submitter's name. Some had no links; some of those had the URL in the text, and some didn't. Most of the rest had stupid pithy comments about linux. Some of them had people whining about how it hadn't appeared on the front page yet.
This is the standard state of affairs. It turns out that slashdot isn't actually a more intelligent group than any other bunch of people who like computers and have web access; probably 90-95% of the story submissions suffer from the same problems. There would be a lot more stories on the slashdot front page if the majority of people who submit them weren't dumbfucks. The sad thing is that a lot of the submitted stories are quite interesting, but a leet-speaking myspacecase would do a better job with the submission. At least kids know how to make links in HTML.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
This is Grand Prix racing, not a bunch of hicks with tractors from NASCAR. You know, super expensive cars, handsome drivers with fancy European names like "Dario", silken ascots worn under tight-fitting racing uniforms, sponsorships by barely profitable Internet firms . . .
OMFG! IT'S 1999 AGAIN!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Obviously Linux isn't ready for the race-track ;)
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...that the suspend operation worked flawlessly and throttling handled by hardware monitoring was handled to perfection.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
...this proves that no matter how bad your drivers are linux will always keep you on your feet
Sadly, yes. I have been spending quite some time in the firehose myself, and it is pretty terrible. IMHO, the firehose needs some additional options besides just a thumbs up/thumbs down.
This submission should be on the front page.
This submission is terrible but the subject should be posted on the front page.
The subject is terrible.
The linked-to article is obviously stupid/hoax/idiotic, but merits some discussion anyway.
This submission is on the same subject as (identify another submission)
This way, the editors could see, "Hey, this block of 20 submissions were all identified by firehosers as being of the same subject, and the subject is considered important, I'll look at a few of the submissions and cobble together something."
Well, this is what happens when your pit crew scoffs and tells you to "RTFM" when you pull-in for a pit stop.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
I'm not sure I understand exactly what this story is about. Can someone maybe post a car analogy for me?
Concatenation of the discussion between my brother and I immediately after we heard about the crash:
At first, it appeared to be a problem with the IndyCar extensions to X, given the user was able to take it down to a console-based tow truck (it wasn't pretty, but it at least got a controlled shutdown). However, further investigation showed it was definitely a hardware issue, as the system couldn't get back on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway network after a full restart of the engine. Most probable cause was a network collision.
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
Next time try: /etc/init.d/brakes restart
and paste results here.
Thanx
Who's Joost?
Just imaginge RMS in a GNU car in the race.
He will forget the race and heads straight toward reporter's station when one of them calls his car, linux car, by mistake.
Be like shadow in the light or darkness.KMZ
The irony is surreal...
No sig for you! Come back one year!