How to Make a Starship Enterprise out of a 3.5" Floppy 538
Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today, so you get to enjoy this little gem:
Here are some simple instructions for making an Enterpris from
a 3.5" floppy disk. Remember those? Before CDRWs cost next to nothing?
Thanks to Ant for digging this one up. Update Removed the link when the original content was removed.
Haha (Score:5, Funny)
That's about all floppy disks are good for anyway
Re:Haha (Score:5, Interesting)
We need a "post to journal" feature (Score:3, Interesting)
I personally think every story posted should go into a users journal.
That way people can develop fan clubs and post good info all day long instead of being shot down by the editors.
Sites slashdotted.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Sites slashdotted.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Which raises an interesting question: Should
Re:Sites slashdotted.. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't belive that people should have to get permission to link to another site, in general. If you put something on the Web without putting a password on it or whatever, you're explicitly allowing others to link to it -- at least in my opinion.
...but not to worry. It is the proverbial 'Does the tree make a sound in the woods' question, every answer is right and wrong :) good read, wish you hadnt posted as AC so more would see it linked here [kuro5hin.org].
umm... (Score:5, Funny)
yes somewhow, it seems to be sickly intriguing.
damn.
i must be a geek.
Re:umm... (Score:4, Funny)
Not only is it wrong, it's downright illegal and violates the DMCA to do this. You're circumventing a copy write-protection device (the plastic case and tab). Nyuk nyuk nyuk. I'm here all week, try the veal.
Light and sound... (Score:5, Funny)
But the grinding of the server's harddrives as we slashdot them only travels at the speed of sound
Cheers
Mirror! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Mirror! (Score:2)
"Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters, asciipr0n.com is offline until further notice. Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to..."
I feel so awful, since I didn't link to the site...
Oh wait...
Meh.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Meh.. (Score:5, Funny)
You should have told earlier. I already used all of my CAT 5 when building C-3PO.
Re:ERm? (Score:5, Funny)
The new CAT-5 never claws your drapes, and eats DOG-1 for breakfast.
Just in case... (Score:5, Informative)
chaz6.com/enterprise/ [chaz6.com]
Re:Just in case... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Just in case... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Just in case... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Just in case... (Score:3, Insightful)
Slashdot so naughty. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Slashdot so naughty. (Score:4, Insightful)
You can't please everyone. BTW no body expects to be
Links are what the internet is about (Score:5, Insightful)
Comment removed (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot so naughty. (Score:5, Funny)
You mean, like this [oldcalculatormuseum.com]?
Re:Just in case... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is just idiotic. You have to realize that not everyone who puts up a website expects to have that kind of traffic. Nor should they. The other aspect to this is the folks who put up a website that may have some appeal on Slashdot, but don't really realize that. Maybe they are hosting it on an NT4 Workstation running Personal Web Services. Should they be expected to be able to withstand the onslaught of a Slashdotting? Do we ask the people who put flyers on cars in parking lots to publish on four color glossies? Would we expect them to? No. This is no different. Slashdot needs to consider these things. They should first ASK a site if it's OK to post their URL. Slashdot should then offer sites that WANT Slashdot exposure, but may not have the bandwidth or hardware to support a Slashdotting, the option of caching their site. All of this could be done very easily if the folks at Slashdot were to create an internal Slashdot site for themselves where they just point and click for this to be an automatic process.
And for all you idiots who keep ripping on CmdrTaco for not being a "journalist"... get a fucking clue. Slashdot has NOTHING to do with journalism. It's basically a very advanced blog. That's it. They can't be held to any journalistic standards or accountability ebcause they are not a news source. That would be like asking a company who puts out a newsletter to fact check everything before it goes out to the staff. NO COMPANY truly does this. So to all you people who cry about journalistic integrity: get fucked.
Re:Just in case... (Score:4, Insightful)
If you can't have enough sense to create a webpage that detects a spike in visits, and handles it approprietly, then tough tits.
Should CNN mirrors sites it talks about?
what happens to reporting if people have to ask before they can report something. If you are driving a hot pink cadilac, do I have to ask you before I point and laugh at you with my friends?
you are SO asking for it... (Score:5, Funny)
If one more IRC fuck-stick uses /me again I'm gonna hunt them down and bitch-slap them.
/me hands btlzu2 a trout
Nothing good to post??? (Score:5, Funny)
It's not like that's ever stopped them before. Heck, they could always post a dupe.
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Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:2)
Thanks to a glimpse into the mysterious future I know that he nearly did. This [slashdot.org] story was about to give a repeat performance. Someone must have warned him...
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:2)
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:5, Interesting)
From the story: Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today
It can't be offtopic now.
There was something good in the bin:
* 2003-04-04 17:19:21 Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists (yro,usa) (rejected)
Since it's a slow news day, you might want to read that article in my journal [slashdot.org]:
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:3, Insightful)
We're going on and on as a country about just how crappy it is to live in other countries, with just cause.
But when did we get so damned coddled as a country that stopping our SUVs from getting through a street is the worst thing that can happen to us? I've been listening to some of the counter-protestors on my campus, and they seem to be the most thin-skinned reactionaries I have ever met. I'm not an avid anti-war person (though I oppose it), but I'd be embarrassed to
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:4, Insightful)
Only in a military dominated dictatorship does the minority make the rules. The United States is a Democratic Republic.
Actually, we're not. As you may or may not have learned in 9th grade civics, the US is a Constitutionally Limited Republic, precisely to prevent the majority from making rules that screw over an unpopular minority.
We have a process in which to 'listen to the damn people.' It's called elections.
In your little world, I'm sure that's how change always happens. However, that's only one way in which the populace can effect change. Remember little things like the Boston Tea Party? That involved disrupting the operations of a major shipping port. Perhaps another tiny little non-electon event called the American Revolution? At some point, the populace may wake up and find that their "representatives" are not. The votes in the houses of government already bought and paid for by corporate interests successfully buying legislation to keep money exactly where it is and out of your pockets.
When the choice presented at election time is between two individuals who have already sold their integrity to the highest bidder, other means of expressing dissatisfaction are needed.
That's different from shutting down a city or country until the government does what you want.
Your inability to get a super double latte caffiene injection at the Starbucks of your choice and having to go around three blocks does not constitute "shutting down a city". Hyperbole won't help your argument any more than the strawmen you've been erecting.
However, it [the minority] does not have the right to cause mass violence or economic hardship.
That's a couple of rather disparate items to be throwing into the same list. I mean, it's almost as if you're equating your personal inconvenience with violence. Do you know anything about the protests you're objecting to? The only time I've heard of there being violence is when some group of your "correct thinking" friends picks a fight with them. You'd do better to object to the cost of those lattes that you're unable to get from your favorite chain shop than the protestors preventing you from getting there.
The "American Way" that you so jingoistically claim to defend *is* the first amendment, where protest, including protests that block traffic and shut down freeways is very much a part of. At some point, my only remaining observation to a nimrod like yourself is that if you really want a police state where those annoying people complaining about things below your radar don't get to interfere with your day-to-day life, why don't you move to China where they've already got all of that?
Personally, I'd prefer the US moved the other way, i.e. get rid of Tom Ridge and his neo-police state Homeland Defense organization. Put more limitations on the police in reaction to new technologies instead of less. But there isn't anyone on the ballot who represents that view, is there? So I guess that exhausts all of my options according to you...
Regards,
Ross
You've reached the end of the internet... (Score:5, Funny)
Really, go outside or read a book.
DVDs? (Score:4, Funny)
With some duct tape and an old towel MacGyver could make a gun!
Re:DVDs? (Score:2, Insightful)
Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait a minute (Score:2, Funny)
Lovely! (Score:5, Funny)
What are Mac useers supposed to do? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, right. I forgot.
Masturbate!
Re:What are Mac useers supposed to do? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What are Mac useers supposed to do? (Score:2, Informative)
Hrmm (Score:5, Funny)
no contest...
raise shields mr sulu!
oh boy (Score:4, Informative)
but im going to get slashdotted to hell and back
768/136 dsl
but here it is: mirror [no-ip.com]
Re:P2P network URN mirror (Score:2)
/.ed (Score:5, Funny)
I think this proves once and for all that Star Wars really is better.
Re:/.ed (Score:2)
Go back in your aristocratic universe filled with fluffy and funny creatures, where kids govern planets and blow up invinceable space-ships
MIRROR in case slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
by bonnie
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Step 1: take an old 3 1/2" floppy disk
Step 2: sneak into Viacom's and Paramount's studios
Step 3: ???
Step 4: save confidential Word
Step 5: ???
Step 6: blackmail.
Step 6: profit!
Step 6: buy star trek franchise
Step 7: fire everyone
Step 8: keep the starship enterprise
oh come on now... (Score:2)
Re:lol no it's not (Score:4, Interesting)
In one of the cases, this trick seemed to have actually worked; the parent comment had a legitimate non-goatse link in it, and it had moderation of 70% troll and only 30% informative. Apparently most of the mods were too timid to check it (guess they hadn't heard of Lynx).
Thanks for the write-up anyway, xintegerx. It was quite amusing. (Not really, but I am trying to keep this slightly on-topic.)
Slashdotted (Score:2, Redundant)
Here are some simple instructions for making an Enterprise from a 3.5" floppy disk
Slashdotted already... like served from a floppy disk
pointers on ship design (Score:2, Funny)
2. Careful when you place that warp drive and the dilithium crystals inside. Don't want a warp bomb.
3. Keep force fields on full frontal;helps survive nasty Klingon phasor attack.
4. Attach Romulan cloaking device.
5. Isnt the bridge supposed to be detachable from the rest of the ship?
Oh, and if you misplace your starship enterprise, by the Ferengi rules of acquisition otherwise known as "Finders keepers; loosers weepers", I get them. "Ahead Warp
Re:pointers on ship design (Score:5, Funny)
<ComicBookGuy style="nerdy.pedantry" tongue="in_cheek">
Oh, I've wasted my life...
</ComicBookGuy>
Re:pointers on ship design (Score:3, Funny)
good hunting today!
Be honest now... (Score:5, Funny)
-S
Re:Be honest now... (Score:2)
I don't know where you're from, but I don't remember floppies in the 90s that worked more than once either.
Re:Be honest now... (Score:3, Funny)
"Captain, the nacells have been sheerd off from the force of the [TECH]!"
Truly... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's exactly the antidote to a morning of reading the news from around the world...
woohoo (Score:5, Funny)
URL (Score:2)
Thanks to Ant for digging this one up.
Did anyone else notice the url starts with www.asciipr0n.com ? Imagine a colony of ants transfering ASCII pr0n, char by char
Oh, shut up!
News for Nerds ... (Score:3, Funny)
Uh...
It doesn't work on all floppys (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It doesn't work on all floppys (Score:2)
Slashdotted? Retaliation! (Score:5, Funny)
<body>
<center><h6>SLASHDOT SUCKS</h6></center>
</body>
</html>
OK, this was an amusing method of dealing with the Slashdot Effect.
Competely offline now.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I think they really, really, really didn't like finding out about the
Great! (Score:4, Funny)
Its still not a patch on putting cd's in the microwave and making pieces of art out of the interestingly patterned results.
(I would make a comment about shoving the enterprise in the microwave and ion storms here, but thats going a bit too far)
Main asciipr0n.com site... (Score:3, Interesting)
Ouch!
And the link from the article just reads "Slashdot Sucks"
Thats what i get for reading articles i guess.
Nooo! Not asciipr0n (Score:2)
Anyways, wouldnt you think a text-only site would have more of a chance of surviving slashdotting after only 8 comments!
Well they're not too happy. (Score:2, Interesting)
OT: Complaining about getting Slashdotted (Score:2)
Now, I can understand that a site would get brought down if it were serving out huge files (like music or movies) but I'm perplexed by all these sites that are brought down just by serving out small static pages. My site was slashdotted once, and the web host [ninthwonder.com] had n
Missing a Step (Score:3, Funny)
Shouldnt the first step should be "back up your data"? Be forewarned - I lost a year of important financial statements by trying this stupid little "trick".....
Seriously though, looks like all the Mac and (soon)Dell users are SOL on this one.
Escape Pod out of a USB Pen Drive anyone?
Linked without permission? (Score:2)
What, do these guys work for the Dallas Morning News?
Fun For A Lazy Sunday (Score:2)
These instructions could probably use improvement (for instance I was thinking snipping the neck where the saucer section attaches at the front might make it fit on better). Anyone feel like reworking the design a little, or providing more clarity?
Also, if anyone has ideas as to how one would make a Bird of Prey from the same parts, that would be appreciated.
Wow...guess I don't need a floppy drive (Score:2)
NCC-1701-D out of a floppy (Score:5, Informative)
Well first don't remove the media from the medal disk thingie.
When the ship is assembled the media will cover the nacelles so just trim the saucer into an off-center oval with the metal disk thingie to one side.
If done somewhat correctly the saucer section will now be in somewhat accurate proportions to the hull.
As soon as I remeber where I put my camera, I will post some pics.
Quoth the website: (Score:2, Troll)
Methinks they don't appreciate the attention.
What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyways, I think it is funny that these guys act like
-Sean
Re:What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
Imagine going down to your neighborhood park and finding 500,000 people jumping up and down. Sure, it's a public place, but it wasn't designed for that. It was designed for 50 or 100 people to hang out for a bit, and move on.
If you think about it a bit more though, this is like someone's back yard. This guy has to pay for bandwidth. He's got a sign saying "sure, come in, sit down for a bit". It'
Re:What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
The problem is that the web isn't someone's backyard. It is something quite different. 1) It takes very little effort for someone to visit the site and 2) the concept of linking is very different and enables this activity so easily a website should expect this.
I do think however, that there could be a way to opt out. Perhaps something equivalent to the robots.txt file? Either the linking body
Re:What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
(Looks like the social skills of
There is a responsibility associated with putting something online. You should be able to deal with such issues as lots of traffic, being sued, slander, etc. If you can't, don't put it online. Some people seem to think that because t
Not work safe (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot should embrace P2P (Score:3, Insightful)
This story [slashdot.org] presented a good way for ISOs to be distributed.
Everyone and their grandma is looking for a way to "legitimize" P2P sharing without involving music.
Why doesn't slashdot start a P2P mirror. Simple gzip the page that's cool to look at, and host it via bittorrent or kazaa. Bandwidth gets shared among the slashdot community, and no site gets hit too hard (except google, which will invaribly be linked to by people who insist on posting google cache links in nearly every discussion
You know it's a really slow day when... (Score:2)
You KNOW it's a really slow
Grandparent: Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today...
Parent: How exactly is it different from other days at
Re:You know it's a really slow day when... (Score:2)
Re:You know it's a really slow day when... (Score:2)
Re:You know it's a really slow day when... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You know it's a really slow day when... (Score:2)
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You are a geek.
Welcome to the club; Geek Club.
The first rule of geek club is you do not talk about geek club.
The second rule of geek club is that you do not talk about geek club.
There is no third rule
The fourth rule of geek club is that you find all Monty Python references funny beyond belief
The fifth rule of geek club is noo poofdahs.
the sixth rule of geek club is you do not whine about your user id
Re:You know it's a really slow day when... (Score:2)
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
Your answer is: Anytime you don't know if you should wash you hands or not, wash them. Teach your kids this, too.
Re:Slashdot uses it's power unresponsibly (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Slashdot uses it's power unresponsibly (Score:4, Informative)
Most major news sites will ask you before posting an article with a link to your site. I know this, because I've gotten asked by major news sites several times. (The exception to this rule was MSNBC, but go figure.)
Site owners budget their hardware and network capacity to handle the traffic they expect (or empirically determine). If they can afford to budget for a traffic spike of three orders of magnitude, they may do that. But the "little guys" obviously do not necessarily have the funds to do that.
With sufficient warning, the site owners might have been able to make arrangements in advance of the posting so their site could have survived.
A mirror sounds like a perfect idea, and wouldn't even suffer the artificial problems presented in the FAQ if you did it right. All you need is Apache configured to be a caching HTTP proxy and a regular web server at the same time. Using the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives, it would appear to users like any other mirror, except it'd be using HTTP caching rules to specify what can and cannot be mirrored/cached. So long as sites are using good cache-control policies, they'd never get Slashdotted...
Slashdot editors are just lazy.
Re:Slashdot uses it's power unresponsibly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:LOL (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:LOL (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, and when the level of traffic spikes one day because of a Slashdot posting, and it makes your server and/or network link unable to service those requests, people will be unable to come and see it.
put up a password site and only let in those that you want in.
Or use an Apache::Throttle-type technique and limit the traffic to what your server and bandwidth is capable of. In this situation, they more or less did that (by hand), just by blocking the content that was being requested by the Slashdot readers. The rest of the site is up to service requests for "real" visitors.
slashdot should mirror the pages - but that in itself is nearly as retarded as the first complaint.
How is that retarded? It allows their article to remain available to Slashdot readers in the event the origin server is no longer able to serve it. Do you want an article with lots of interesting comments about a topic, or do you want an article with a bunch of comments saying "slashdotted!" A mirror would solve this problem. (A mirror can be created that doesn't suffer from the artificial problems discussed in the FAQ by combining a caching HTTP proxy with a web site front-end. To users it would appear as a mirror, but the server would treat it as a proxy, so it'd always be following HTTP caching rules and the site owner couldn't/wouldn't ever have grounds to complain.)
Re:slashdot cache (Score:5, Informative)
The "we don't wanna cache" reasons given in the FAQ are mostly artificial. There's no technological reason behind their decision not to mirror sites.
HTTP is designed such that resources can be cached. If they were to exploit that HTTP caching functionality and stick a mirror-like front-end on it, they could effectively cache most of the content and even preserve the ad-serving functionality of the target. (Assuming they had their cache-control headers set up properly.) To the site owner, they'd see a handful of their pages requested by the proxy, and a bazillion requests for their advertising (since that probably wouldn't be marked as cacheable). This is HTTP at work.
Something like this has been suggested for a while, and nobody's ever really explained why this isn't workable. IMO, the Slashdot editors are just lazy/insufficiently staffed. (For the record, most major news sites will inform you when they're about to link to you.)
Re:slashdot cache (Score:3, Informative)
If you're publishing a document through HTTP, you are implicitly agreeing to allow your document to be redistributed as the HTTP specification designed. If your web site is providing a document, and providing cache-control headers that indicate that document will not change in the next 5 minutes, you are implicitly allowing for servers acting as caching HTTP proxies to cache that document and