Technology has advanced a lot since you were arrested. In fact, I'm willing to sell you this 450Mhz PC with 16MB RAM for only $3,000 (monitor sold separately). What do you think?
To change the DNS IPs, you must click the grey "NO THANKS" button.
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If you try to change the DNS IPs, you have to click a greyed out button. If you click the bright yellow button, you transfer your web site hosting to verisign. I spent 10 minutes going back/forward searching for the right button before I realized it was the disabled looking one. I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of people transferred unintentionally.
her pc crashed, she made the switch, and now she's famous. meet the internet's latest it girl.
By Zachary Frechette
Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds, with one notable exception: Some guy in Holland is wearing a T-shirt with her face on it right now. Actually, a lot of people are wearing that shirt with her picture or drinking coffee from a similarly themed mug purchased on one of Ellen's numerous fan sites. After appearing in a "Switch" ad for Apple computer (www.apple.com/switch/ads), Feiss quickly became an Internet celebrity, spawning stories in newspapers from coast to coast and sparking discussion in chat rooms across the world. There was even a look-alike contest held outside Amsterdam, although most of the entrants were men. Some have argued she seems a bit too, um, light-headed in her commercial, but that hasn't stopped Leno and Letterman from trying to book her (actually, it probably helped). As a sophomore in high school, Ellen still isn't quite sure what to make of her 15 minutes, but between meetings with her agent and MTV executives, she took some time to answer questions for Post-.
How did you get involved with the Apple switch campaign in the first place? It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.
Is the story you told true? Oh yeah, it's definitely true.
What was the paper about? It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really, really good paper.
Did Apple compensate you for the commercial at all? I'm not actually sure how much I got paid because it was in installments, and the whole contract was dealt with by my parents, so I'm not actually sure. Oh, and I got an iPod. It's like the coolest thing ever.
What was the initial response of your friends and family to the commercial? They all freaked out. I called my dad while I was at the set because I had to get him to say that he was my guardian and it was OK for me to do it, and he didn't believe me that I was going to do it. So they all freaked out when they found out I got the ad.
Did you get a lot of phone calls after it aired? Yeah, a lot of old camp friends, actually.
When did you start getting the sense you were becoming a celebrity beyond the commercial itself? I was on vacation in Arizona this summer, and when I left everything was fine. It was kind of like, "Oh this is cool, I'm in a commercial," but that's it. And so we left. When we get back two weeks later, it's like a bombard, it was so big. I have like 20 messages on the answering machine from different people telling me about this, random people like people who work with my parents and all these other people. I get back and I'm in The New York Times, and I'm in the L.A. Times, and Letterman wants me on his show, Leno wants me on his show. I'm like, "I just got back from vacation!" It's funny because I get back, and the New York Times is like, "Ellen is unreachable for comment because she's supposedly on vacation," and I was like, "How do they even know this?" It was really kind of scary, actually, a little overwhelming at first.
So do you have any interest in doing Leno or Letterman? I was offered to, but I decided not to because I thought it wouldn't be so much "Who are you, Ellen Feiss?" It would be more like, "Are you a stoner?" blah blah blah. I did get other offers besides that that I'm getting into. MTV wants to talk to me. They're doing a pilot on me. The guy's going to come to my house in two weeks and interview me, and then show it to the CEO of MTV. I got a lot of crazy offers. I thought if I went on Letterman, it would be like I go on Letterman, and then I go on "Regis and Kelly," and then I go on Channel 5 News, and then it would kind of fizzle out pathetically. MTV's a little cooler.
Any idea what the MTV show would be about? No, he has no idea. He just said he liked the ads and said I was a cute kid.
Do you think this has the potential to jump-start a career in entertainment? I don't know. I also got a call from the Farrelly Brothers. They were like, "You know we really like your ad," so they wrote down my name or something. I have an agent now. This guy writes me down -- the producer of all the Farrelly brothers movies -- and he's like this kid is whatever whatever, this ad is pretty funny, so he writes my name down and he's trying to get in contact with my agent. Since I didn't have an agent at that point... well it's a kind of confusing story, but anyway, they wanted me to be in one of their movies, but since they found out how old I was they don't think I can be in one. Supposedly, though, my agent is "floating my image," quote unquote. I don't know what the hell that means.
So have you made a bunch of new friends at school? No, it isn't that weird. I get a lot of really obvious comments from people like "Did you know that there are mugs with your face on them?" and I'm like, "No I didn't; why don't you tell me about that?" Just comments like that. It's like, "Thanks for telling me about that."
Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts? Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives. I don't know, it was kind of bizarre at first. I went to my Web site but I decided not to read any of the comments because I thought it would be too weird. I heard about some of them, though, so I was like, "Weeell, I'm not going to read those."
Did you hear about the look-alike contest in Holland? I did! I saw the pictures, too. It was really funny.
Did you have a favorite picture? The toothless old man was hands down the best, but no one actually looked anything like me.
Has Apple tried to contact you since all this happened? They contacted me to supposedly advise me. They were like, "We don't really want you to take this anywhere," but I decided to get an agent anyway. I went to Macworld in July. It seems like the kind of thing where if you're not in the biz.... I thought it was the most boring thing. I got shuttled down to New York, and I got VIP seating, and I was like, "Wow, I'm at the Oscars or something," but then I was like, "No, I'm at Macworld." I met Steve Jobs. He called me by my first name -- clever, huh? It was brief.
Do you have a favorite switch ad besides your own? Probably Hamilton, just because I know him, and I saw him make it. It was so funny. Me and Hamilton have decided that our new nemesis is Jeremiah Cohick. He's our age, and he's trying to steal our limelight! We decided we don't like him. We're out to get him.
Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial? It doesn't really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial -- I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That's why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me.
Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude? No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.
Don't know about a project of that size but here's the data for a 60,000 line project:
Annually I receive 1 email per 17 lines of total code. This includes all bug reports, suggestions, general support and general business related to the software. It does not include spam or personal email.
The RISKS Digest is a mailing list and usenet newsgroup that describes all kinds of situations where technology has gone wrong. Many of the stories involve programming errors.
An "expert" guest on one of the news channels tried to link the sniper's "I am God" message to God mode in videogames. It makes me wonder if the "experts" in areas I know nothing about are bullshitting just as much.
Stories about wardialing are popping up everywhere now. So how do you prevent unauthorized access to your wireless LAN? I have 128-bit encryption enabled. Is that enough to prevent bandwidth stealing/snooping or is there something else?
Most importantly 2 & 3. Document, document, document. Some might suggest open source, which is fine, but clear, comprehensive documentation is essential.
Does internet radio really need to go out of business? Is it impossible to exist without broadcasting the same copyrighted music that everyone else broadcasts? There are lots of independent bands that would love to have their music played without royalties. There's probably a lot of talented people who could do talk shows and news as well. Wouldn't this avoid any royalty payments? Surely someone in internet radio can produce original programming!
GM corn is the least of their worries. Zimbabwe was not starving until Mugabe started killing the white farmers and confiscating farms for his incompetent friends. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/ 20020723/ap_on_re_af/zimbabwe_politics_4
They also have a little problem with rape gangs. One gang broke into a farm house and tied up a husband and his wife. They raped his wife and then urinated on him. Mugabe is using these gangs to intimidate whites. If you fight back, you go to jail.
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The apple, on the other hand, had simplicity on it's side: one keyboard (maybe even a mouse) and a single flashing cursor on the command line. The concept that impresses people is that with this one continuously flashing entrypoint into the computer (awaiting input) is that even if you left it on for 2,000 years you had the idea that the machine was waiting patiently for your input - the concept that you were communicating with a machinentity that was trying to understand you.
I love this part. After 20 years of the "experts" telling us how evil the command-line is, we're now told that it's a good thing. It's a little like nutritionists alternately telling us that certain foods are healthy/unhealthy. Eventually you just get exasperated and tune them out.
However, what about the losing streaks? There seems to be another level where everything seems to go wrong, and I have to quit and try later.
This is caused either by lag or by cheaters. When I'm losing, I first check the latency. If it's over 150, I'm losing because of lag. If it's under 150, I'm losing because my opponents are cheating.
But if you can't beat the cheaters, join them. I find that accusing people of cheating can be very helpful. Often they will give me the URL where they got their cheats. Unfortunately though I still can't find the file area at goatse.cx.
deja.com, the usenet archive, is hardly ever mentioned as a programmer's site even though it holds the answers to nearly any programming question you might have. I use it more often than any other site. Search for a problem and you'll find that a dozen people have experienced it and solved it already.
The research found that Linux systems in the firing line typically deployed open source third-party applications, certain versions of which contained well known vulnerabilities which are not being patched fast enough and are continuously exploited by hackers.
A lot of people have complained about patches not being included in the kernel fast enough but it seems app patches are slowing down as well. What's going on? Maybe this is affected by school schedules.
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Technology has advanced a lot since you were arrested. In fact, I'm willing to sell you this 450Mhz PC with 16MB RAM for only $3,000 (monitor sold separately). What do you think?
Looking at it now I see the button is actually blue. Same idea though.
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"YES, SWITCH MY DNS" is the WRONG button.
To change the DNS IPs, you must click the grey "NO THANKS" button.
If you try to change the DNS IPs, you have to click a greyed out button. If you click the bright yellow button, you transfer your web site hosting to verisign. I spent 10 minutes going back/forward searching for the right button before I realized it was the disabled looking one. I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of people transferred unintentionally.
I thought college in the UK was like on the Young Ones.
...slashdotted! hehe
the apple of apple's eye: ellen feiss
... well it's a kind of confusing story, but anyway, they wanted me to be in one of their movies, but since they found out how old I was they don't think I can be in one. Supposedly, though, my agent is "floating my image," quote unquote. I don't know what the hell that means.
.... I thought it was the most boring thing. I got shuttled down to New York, and I got VIP seating, and I was like, "Wow, I'm at the Oscars or something," but then I was like, "No, I'm at Macworld." I met Steve Jobs. He called me by my first name -- clever, huh? It was brief.
her pc crashed, she made the switch, and now she's famous. meet the internet's latest it girl.
By Zachary Frechette
Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds, with one notable exception: Some guy in Holland is wearing a T-shirt with her face on it right now. Actually, a lot of people are wearing that shirt with her picture or drinking coffee from a similarly themed mug purchased on one of Ellen's numerous fan sites. After appearing in a "Switch" ad for Apple computer (www.apple.com/switch/ads), Feiss quickly became an Internet celebrity, spawning stories in newspapers from coast to coast and sparking discussion in chat rooms across the world. There was even a look-alike contest held outside Amsterdam, although most of the entrants were men. Some have argued she seems a bit too, um, light-headed in her commercial, but that hasn't stopped Leno and Letterman from trying to book her (actually, it probably helped). As a sophomore in high school, Ellen still isn't quite sure what to make of her 15 minutes, but between meetings with her agent and MTV executives, she took some time to answer questions for Post-.
How did you get involved with the Apple switch campaign in the first place?
It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.
Is the story you told true?
Oh yeah, it's definitely true.
What was the paper about?
It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really, really good paper.
Did Apple compensate you for the commercial at all?
I'm not actually sure how much I got paid because it was in installments, and the whole contract was dealt with by my parents, so I'm not actually sure. Oh, and I got an iPod. It's like the coolest thing ever.
What was the initial response of your friends and family to the commercial?
They all freaked out. I called my dad while I was at the set because I had to get him to say that he was my guardian and it was OK for me to do it, and he didn't believe me that I was going to do it. So they all freaked out when they found out I got the ad.
Did you get a lot of phone calls after it aired?
Yeah, a lot of old camp friends, actually.
When did you start getting the sense you were becoming a celebrity beyond the commercial itself?
I was on vacation in Arizona this summer, and when I left everything was fine. It was kind of like, "Oh this is cool, I'm in a commercial," but that's it. And so we left. When we get back two weeks later, it's like a bombard, it was so big. I have like 20 messages on the answering machine from different people telling me about this, random people like people who work with my parents and all these other people. I get back and I'm in The New York Times, and I'm in the L.A. Times, and Letterman wants me on his show, Leno wants me on his show. I'm like, "I just got back from vacation!" It's funny because I get back, and the New York Times is like, "Ellen is unreachable for comment because she's supposedly on vacation," and I was like, "How do they even know this?" It was really kind of scary, actually, a little overwhelming at first.
So do you have any interest in doing Leno or Letterman?
I was offered to, but I decided not to because I thought it wouldn't be so much "Who are you, Ellen Feiss?" It would be more like, "Are you a stoner?" blah blah blah. I did get other offers besides that that I'm getting into. MTV wants to talk to me. They're doing a pilot on me. The guy's going to come to my house in two weeks and interview me, and then show it to the CEO of MTV. I got a lot of crazy offers. I thought if I went on Letterman, it would be like I go on Letterman, and then I go on "Regis and Kelly," and then I go on Channel 5 News, and then it would kind of fizzle out pathetically. MTV's a little cooler.
Any idea what the MTV show would be about?
No, he has no idea. He just said he liked the ads and said I was a cute kid.
Do you think this has the potential to jump-start a career in entertainment?
I don't know. I also got a call from the Farrelly Brothers. They were like, "You know we really like your ad," so they wrote down my name or something. I have an agent now. This guy writes me down -- the producer of all the Farrelly brothers movies -- and he's like this kid is whatever whatever, this ad is pretty funny, so he writes my name down and he's trying to get in contact with my agent. Since I didn't have an agent at that point
So have you made a bunch of new friends at school?
No, it isn't that weird. I get a lot of really obvious comments from people like "Did you know that there are mugs with your face on them?" and I'm like, "No I didn't; why don't you tell me about that?" Just comments like that. It's like, "Thanks for telling me about that."
Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts?
Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives. I don't know, it was kind of bizarre at first. I went to my Web site but I decided not to read any of the comments because I thought it would be too weird. I heard about some of them, though, so I was like, "Weeell, I'm not going to read those."
Did you hear about the look-alike contest in Holland?
I did! I saw the pictures, too. It was really funny.
Did you have a favorite picture?
The toothless old man was hands down the best, but no one actually looked anything like me.
Has Apple tried to contact you since all this happened?
They contacted me to supposedly advise me. They were like, "We don't really want you to take this anywhere," but I decided to get an agent anyway. I went to Macworld in July. It seems like the kind of thing where if you're not in the biz
Do you have a favorite switch ad besides your own?
Probably Hamilton, just because I know him, and I saw him make it. It was so funny. Me and Hamilton have decided that our new nemesis is Jeremiah Cohick. He's our age, and he's trying to steal our limelight! We decided we don't like him. We're out to get him.
Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial?
It doesn't really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial -- I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That's why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me.
Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude?
No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.
Soldier2671: a/s/l?
Don't know about a project of that size but here's the data for a 60,000 line project:
Annually I receive 1 email per 17 lines of total code. This includes all bug reports, suggestions, general support and general business related to the software. It does not include spam or personal email.
It does include:
1 bug report per 120 lines of total code.
1 suggestion per 214 lines of total code.
The RISKS Digest is a mailing list and usenet newsgroup that describes all kinds of situations where technology has gone wrong. Many of the stories involve programming errors.
Google's RISKs Archive
An "expert" guest on one of the news channels tried to link the sniper's "I am God" message to God mode in videogames. It makes me wonder if the "experts" in areas I know nothing about are bullshitting just as much.
Thanks for the tips.
BTW, don't why the message was moderated as a troll.
Stories about wardialing are popping up everywhere now. So how do you prevent unauthorized access to your wireless LAN? I have 128-bit encryption enabled. Is that enough to prevent bandwidth stealing/snooping or is there something else?
Now that's some spin!
Most importantly 2 & 3. Document, document, document. Some might suggest open source, which is fine, but clear, comprehensive documentation is essential.
This was happening before GWB took office in Jan 2001.
Does internet radio really need to go out of business? Is it impossible to exist without broadcasting the same copyrighted music that everyone else broadcasts? There are lots of independent bands that would love to have their music played without royalties. There's probably a lot of talented people who could do talk shows and news as well. Wouldn't this avoid any royalty payments? Surely someone in internet radio can produce original programming!
Yeah, like the infamous whitehouse.com porn site.
I like the ILoveClaireAlways domain in the picture. I guess that little affair lasted as long as some of the lifetime free email accounts.
GM corn is the least of their worries. Zimbabwe was not starving until Mugabe started killing the white farmers and confiscating farms for his incompetent friends. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/ 20020723/ap_on_re_af/zimbabwe_politics_4
They also have a little problem with rape gangs. One gang broke into a farm house and tied up a husband and his wife. They raped his wife and then urinated on him. Mugabe is using these gangs to intimidate whites. If you fight back, you go to jail.
Exactly!
I love this part. After 20 years of the "experts" telling us how evil the command-line is, we're now told that it's a good thing. It's a little like nutritionists alternately telling us that certain foods are healthy/unhealthy. Eventually you just get exasperated and tune them out.
Ah you got the joke. :-)
This is caused either by lag or by cheaters. When I'm losing, I first check the latency. If it's over 150, I'm losing because of lag. If it's under 150, I'm losing because my opponents are cheating.
But if you can't beat the cheaters, join them. I find that accusing people of cheating can be very helpful. Often they will give me the URL where they got their cheats. Unfortunately though I still can't find the file area at goatse.cx.
How to download music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
Doesn't the NYT report on everything from births to marriages to arrests and don't they have archives going back decades? Seems a bit hypocritical.
How to download music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
deja.com, the usenet archive, is hardly ever mentioned as a programmer's site even though it holds the answers to nearly any programming question you might have. I use it more often than any other site. Search for a problem and you'll find that a dozen people have experienced it and solved it already.
How to download movies, music and pictures from newsgroups while you sleep.
The research found that Linux systems in the firing line typically deployed open source third-party applications, certain versions of which contained well known vulnerabilities which are not being patched fast enough and are continuously exploited by hackers.
A lot of people have complained about patches not being included in the kernel fast enough but it seems app patches are slowing down as well. What's going on? Maybe this is affected by school schedules.
How to fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.