MIT Gnome Invasion

J. Arthur Random writes "On Wednesday, April 23, hundreds of gnomes invaded the main public computer cluster at MIT. There were big gnomes, little gnomes, even naked gnomes. A gnome army carried the GNOME banner. Fortunately, the ACME Gnome Exterminators took care of the infestation within a few days."

fr1st ps0t

[Anonymous Coward]

gnome is about as user friendly as girls are

Other MIT hacks

[Michael's a Jerk!]

The Hack Gallery [slashdot.org]

Re:Other MIT hacks

[Michael's a Jerk!]

Working Link [mit.edu]. I like the dome beanie :-)

My favorites

[www.sorehands.com]

My favorite is the 1982 Havard/Yale/MIT football game [astrian.net]. My second favorite was the police car on top of the dome [mit.edu], including donut.

Re:Other MIT hacks

[GnarlyNome]

Is this what happens when you run GnomeMeetings?

Do the Gnomes Talk to You?

[hillct]

Do you hear voices? Did the gnomes tell you to put them in the computer lab, or is this a precursor to an all-out invasion? If the gnomes don't talk to you, then you can read about all the things the gnomes tell others across this expanse we call the internet:

Top 39 Things the Evil Lawn Gnomes tell only You [keepersoflists.org]

We swear, we knew about the invasion of the lawn gnomes long before those MIT students ever got wind of their master plan (although, like anyone who knows the truth we can't prove it and no one would

Run....

[Blaine Hilton]

Better watch out for the genetically altered, gnomes with a higher gnomedex...

Go calculate [webcalc.net] something

This is Slashdot worthy?

[clbyjack81]

Is there really no news at all? Wow, astonishing!

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[SweetAndSourJesus]

In the US, it's friday night. Little news is being generated. Most people are out doing something.

Except us, of course.

Party on, clbyjack81!

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[Art Tatum]

This is the annual MIT hack. It's an old tradition that is *definitely* Slashdot worthy. My favorite has always been Buzzword Bingo [mit.edu]!

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[The Evil Couch]

it's not annual. guys at MIT do hacks all year round. [mit.edu]

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[GnarlyNome]

You mean they cain't get dates either?

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[The Evil Couch]

fair enough. at least you brought attention to the buzzword bingo. I hadn't looked that far back into the archives myself. thanks for sharing. personally, I'd have to go with the talking elevator hack. [mit.edu] there's just something about making an elevator say odd things, when usually it just goes "ding".

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[Baloo Ursidae]

It's not annual, they happen far more frequently. Please go hit up the Freshman Fishwrap's Hack Gallery [mit.edu].

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[Emperor Cezar]

Karma burn time.

With all due respect, screw you buddy. This is funny, it's geek AND tech AND linux related. If you don't like it, pack your bags, stop your b1tching and leave. I'm so tired of it.

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[Bonker]

This is news for nerds. This is stuff that matters.

This was a truly beautiful hack, and it looks like the perpetrators, may they be snickering to themselves in their dormrooms, put a hell of a lot of effort into it.

It had class, beauty, and best of all, didn't hurt anybody.

As a nerd, I am truly glad that Slashdot brought this to my attention. /salute the anonymous Gnomesters.

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[altstadt]

Umm, no.

By my count (from the pictures) this was approximately 78 little bits of plaster placed around a few computers. Aside from the painting, this is about 5 minutes worth of work for one person.

News for nerds? Maybe, if they haven't found the big blue (grey) room yet. Stuff that matters? There are people at work with bigger belini (sp) figurine collections decorating their cubes.

Re:This is Slashdot worthy?

[Hal-9001]

The truly beautiful hacks were the Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool [mit.edu] and the campus police car on the Great Dome. [mit.edu] This one was cute, but it doesn't even compare to the One Ring on the Great Dome. [mit.edu]

Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome?

[Elpacoloco]

Must you use the magic word, Kappa Delta Edward [kde.org]?

Re:Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome?

[VWswing]

Actually, wouldn't this be Kappa Delta Epislon?

Re:Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome?

[yerricde]

Actually, wouldn't this be Kappa Delta Epislon?

For one thing, the Greek for 'E' is "Epsilon" (s before i).

For another, "Edward" was funnier.

Re:Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome?

[RayChuang]

Try this: use a Jarvey. =)

(For those who don't know, you'll have to read the Harry Potter books to find out. ^_^)

HELP!

[JWSmythe]

HELP!

The Gnomes are coming! The Gnomes are coming!

The colo just called. They're coming through the raised floors, and just appearing inside cages and cabinets! They're overrunning us!!!!

Re:HELP!

[Oloryn]

The Gnomes are coming! The Gnomes are coming!

Thank you, Mr Revere

Re:HELP!

[Tumbleweed]

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

And somewhere...

[Chemisor]

And somewhere in a lab deep within the MIT complex, a lone scientist named Gordon Freeman just found a crowbar...

You guys at MIT are smart and all,

[Anonymous Coward]

But you guys really have to get out more.....

Re:You guys at MIT are smart and all,

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, this coming from a guy who spends friday night posting on slashdot.

All the bases covered!

[Corvaith]

Looking at the pictures... wow. Pirate gnomes! Goth gnomes! Alcoholic gnomes!

I think some people really need to get lives. :)

Re:All the bases covered!

[exhilaration]

Where are the African-American gnomes? The Arab gnomes?? The South Asian gnomes? The Jewish gnomes??

THIS IS BLATANT DISCRIMINATION - I cannot allow this exclusion of minority gnomes to stand!

I shall be filing a class action lawsuit against MIT; all minority gnomes should contact me immediately.

(Now to figure out some way to bring the DMCA into this...)

Re:All the bases covered!

[Ellen Ripley]

LADIES @ NJ/NYC: 23 YEAR OLD GUY SEEKS YOU!

Shouldn't this be:

IN SOVIET UNION: 23 YEAR OLD GUY SEEKS YOU!

About Time!

[SirDrinksAlot]

Phew, about time someone rounded all those gnomes up in one place where they couldnt do any dammage. This way we can get rid of them once and for all.

GOT A GNOME PROBLEM??

[exhilaration]

HERE'S YOUR SOLUTION [kde.org]!!

Re:GOT A GNOME PROBLEM??

[Billly Gates]

I just use Emacs.

phase 2

[cygnusx197]

Thank god it wasn't the underpants gnomes!

Move along, nothing to see here!!

[malia8888]

doesn't look abgnome-al to me!!

MIT????

[Bearded Pear Shaped]

Last time they struck the Harvard School of Eco-gnomics.

*click click click click click*
What's that noise??

Why it's a metrognome

I'm truly sorry for this post.

Metrognome

[meldon corintur]

But I thought a metrognome was a gnome that lived in the city. :)

Re:Metrognome

[Aliencow]

Insightful ? Someone had a big gnumber of beers before modding !

Re:Metrognome

[breon.halling]

But I thought a metrognome was a gnome that lived in the city.

No, you're thinking of this gnome [hyprmynd.com]. =)

Re:MIT????

[TKinias]

scripsit Bearded Pear Shaped:

Last time they struck the Harvard School of Eco-gnomics.

I thought it was the Ankh-Morpork School of Reflected Sound as of Underground Spirits?

Well gnomes eh?, a little story

[Falconpro10k]

According to legend and tall tales, the great gnome (the ones' footprint is in the gnome logo) comes to view his subjects, therefore, all the gnomes got ready for their grand king.. they even shaved their feet. In other news, was this a prank or what?

HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[circletimessquare]

slashdot editors care about fluff like this, but not that the father of relational databases passed away.

2003-04-26 00:59:52 Father of the Relational Database, Ted Codd, dead (articles,storage) (rejected)

the register story here [theregister.co.uk]

flood your submission queues until they get the idea that we care about the death of computer science pioneers as much as porcelain gnomes placed around campus. geez.

Ted Codd was a great theorcist r/o

[polished look 2]

he shall be missed.

I greatly respect and admire the man. He achieved a good deal.

Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[Blacklotuz]

Yah, I have to agree with you, that should be news. The gnomes were mildly amusing but I wouldn't concider them front page material.

Who needs relational databases?

[fm6]

Certainly not Slashdot, which is based on MySQL.

Re:Who needs relational databases?

[WindBourne]

MS does, as supposedly their next Filsystem is based on sqlserver

Re:Who needs relational databases?

[fm6]

Jeesh, nobody has a sense of irony any more. In fact, fans of MySQL consider it a relational dbms. It has relational features, but they don't work all that well.

I find it easy to understand why the Slashdot editors (and probably most readers) are uninterested in Codd's life or death. He did come up with the basic ideas that make modern databases work. But nowadays people take these ideas for granted.

You see the same thing in math. Everybody knows how to prove that there's no largest natural number, but

More bummers

[fm6]

Hm, Von Neumann's role as a computer science pioneer is controversial [vt.edu]. He did forsee the coming dominance of "stored-programming computers" -- but contrary to popular belief, he didn't invent the model.

Now, Turing has some claim to being the very first computer scientist. His attempts to explain mathematical logic in terms of mechanistic abstractions predates the computer revolution by a couple of decades. And when actual computers did start to appear, he was one of the first to deal seriously with what w

Re:More bummers

[Simon Brooke]

But here's another bummer. It seems pretty obvious that the security bozos murdered Turing because they couldn't stand the idea of faggot with all those state secrets in his head. I should emphasize that this is my paranoid theory, not Hodges's -- as a UK citizen, he could get in trouble just for suggesting the possibility.

Speaking as a UK citizen, I think your theory is a load of codds. Turing had just been forcibly castrated by court order for the heinous crime of being homosexual, and his private lif

Details

[fm6]

Turing had just been forcibly castrated by court order for the heinous crime of being homosexual,

You're misinformed. (Internet rumor? Read Hodges's book.) Turing had been forced to undergo hormone therapy that was supposed to "cure" his sexual orientation. Barbaric, but not enough to destroy him, either psychologically or sexually. He was well past that stuff, and even sexually active again, when he died.

Re:Details

[Simon Brooke]

You're misinformed. (Internet rumor? Read Hodges's book.) Turing had been forced to undergo hormone therapy that was supposed to "cure" his sexual orientation.

I have personally worked with two people who worked with Turing and knew him well. I didn't of course know him myself because he died before I was born. You're right that he was castrated by chemical injection. It doesn't make it any better and it doesn't change the psychological impact it had on him. Yes, that's rumour, but it's rumour told to me

Re:Details

[fm6]

You seem to be in love with the word "castrated". Getting your libido suppressed by drugs is a long way from having your genitals mutilated. The fact is, most older men go through similar hormonal changes (I'm going through them myself). They're unpleasant and undignified and embaressing. And in Turing's case they must have been particularly bad. But they're still quite different from becomming a eunuch.

You're making inferences about Turing's state of mind based on what you think he went through and how y

Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[jpkunst]

2003-04-23 19:52:28 Edgar Codd dies at 79 (articles,news) (rejected)

NY Times story (registration, etc.) Edgar Codd, Key Theorist of Databases, Dies at 79 [nytimes.com].

Like you, I couldn't care less that my submission was rejected, but this should have been on the frontpage of /. one way or the other.

JP

Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[Ben Hutchings]

Likewise: 2003-04-21 03:01:12 Inventor of the RDBMS Dies (articles,news) (rejected)

I found the news on alt.folklore.computers [alt.folklore.computers] where they actually care about the history of computing.

My submission linked to the San Jose Mercury News obituary [bayarea.com] and Codd's original paper on the relational model [acm.org].

Next thing...

[baywulf]

KDE gear invasion!

Bouncing Gnomes

[Anonymous Coward]

Were any of the gnomes bouncing and throwing flowerpots? [jardinains.com]

Pshaw... Gnome invasion.

[Torgo's Pizza]

Hundreds of Gnomes couldn't take down the MIT computer labs, but Slashdot does it with one story submission. Is there anything that can stop the Slashdot army?

Re:Pshaw... Gnome invasion.

[Tyler Eaves]

Sure, an OC3 and a cluster of FreeBSD machines.

Re:Pshaw... Gnome invasion.

[awx]

nah man, didn't you hear? BSD's dying.




posted from a VAX running NetBSD...

Re:Pshaw... Gnome invasion.

[cooldev]

http://www.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]

Slashdot troll invasion

[arvindn]

In related news...

"On Wednesday, April 23, hundreds of trolls invaded the front page stories at slashdot. There were long trolls, short trolls, even goatse trolls. A troll army carried the spiralx [dyndns.org] banner. Fortunately, the moderators took care of the infestation within a few hours."

You think you have problems ...

[WillASeattle]

here in Fremont [fremontartscouncil.org], Center of the Universe, we have parties with trolls, goblins, and other creatures [pbase.com], a Giant Troll which lives under our bridge [pbase.com], and space aliens on our Space Needle [pbase.com].

And that's on a good day ....

I am from the government and I am here to help.

[www.sorehands.com]

I am from division 6 of the Homeland Security department. There are no gnomes, all you saw was a group of midgets through a cloud of swamp gas.

We have proven that gnomes do not exist.

Wait..

[Adam9]

Are you actually the Iraqi Information Minister [welovethei...nister.com]?

HE's not from the government-he's from MICROSOFT!

[wowbagger]

Look out! He's not from the government, he's from MICROSOFT !

DON'T LOOK INTO THE LIGHT, HE'LL ERASE YOUR

<FLASH>

.....

Confused

[Herkum01]

I thought that the Gnome Invasion had something to do with the Gnome Liberation Front [fsnet.co.uk], and I just could not understand why Slashdot would be interested in them.

Jhonen Would Be Proud

[DarKrow]

Look! It's one of Zim's Lawn Gnomes! [mit.edu]

Bastard gnome stole my panties . . .

[pariahdecss]

It does not take a mensa grade detective to notice there are no female gnomes at the MIT Athena cluster. Those wacky MIT natives and their cunning stunts - Whatever happened to panty raids at the local girls college - Thongs and bras hanging from the girders of the Athena cluster white room
http://www.sdplotkin.com/img/gnome.jpg

Re:Bastard gnome stole my panties . . .

[mizhi]

The lack of female gnomes in the Athena cluster are representative of the general student population. :-)

Just kidding...

This is new?

[LongJohnStewartMill]

So the computer lab is filled with hairy little men. What's so great about this? You should see my friends at a LAN party... Woohoo! Hack! =)

Sponsored by SUN

[masonbrown]

Look through the pictures. Several of them have the Sun Microsystems logo prominently displayed.... Looks like a grassroots marketing campaign led by the Gnome population of Massachusetts.

Labs of Sun machines, that's why

[green pizza]

Look through the pictures. Several of them have the Sun Microsystems logo prominently displayed....

That's because most of the computers in the Athena clusters ("computer labs") at MIT are Suns.

There are also many linux boxes and SGIs as well. MIT's Athena network is un*x only.

ACME?

[Dunkalis]

Bah! ACME Gnome Extermination has, in my experience, been a waste of money and time. I prefer calling in the...

KDE Extermination Service. Their superior technology and leadership has led them to victory against the GNOMEs time and time again. Their great Konqueror crushed the Gnome legions before, and can do it again. Even the mighty Gnome Republican Guard fall when faced with the awesome power of the Konqi Special Forces!

Fear the Gear!

Now, I await the Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf joke.

Re:ACME?

[aat]

According to a person on the scene, the Gnome Exterminators had "KDE" written on
their backpacks.

From the desk of Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

[Anonymous Coward]

There are no Gnomes, we have butchered them all! They have no foothold in MIT, we have pinned them down at community colleges!

These Gnomes shall burn the the stomach of a Beowulf Cluster Allah willing! I repeat, there are NO infidels with funny hats and beards in MIT! I shall take you there myself to show you, we are butchering the invaders as we speak! The LAN will flow with their non-beleiver blood! I blame Slashdot, they are the IT Media for the community colleges. Be assured. MIT is safe, protect

Where is the laughing Gnome?

[G3ckoG33k]

I was walking down the High Street
When I heard footsteps behind me
And there was a little old man (Hello)
In scarlet and grey, shuffling away (laughter)
Well he trotted back to my house
And he sat beside the telly (Oaah..)
With his tiny hands on his tummy
Chuckling away, laughing all day (laughter)

Oh, I ought to report you to the Gnome office
(Gnome Office)
Yes
(Hahahahaha)

CHORUS
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Said the laughing Gnome

Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine (Burp, pardon)
Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne
Carried his bag and gave him a fag
(Haven't you got a light boy?)
"Here, where do you come from?"
(Gnome-man's land, hahihihi)
"Oh, really?"

In the morning when I woke up
He was sitting on the edge of my bed
With his brother whose name was Fred
He'd bought him along to sing me a song

Right, let's hear it
Here, what's that clicking noise?
(That's Fred, he's a "metrognome", haha)

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"

(Own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right, haha)
"Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?"
(No, we're gnomads)
"Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school?
you look like a rolling gnome."
(No, not at the London School of Ecognomics)

Now they're staying up the chimney
And we're living on caviar and honey (hooray!)
Cause they're earning me lots of money
Writing comedy prose for radio shows
It's the-er (what?)
It's the Gnome service of course

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, oh, dear me

(Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me")

(One more time, yeah)

Blatantly from Teenage Wildlife [teenagewildlife.com], David Bowie fansite. Oh yes, he wrote the song, back in 1968 or 1969.

Recycled joke

[mao che minh]

Much to the contridictary behest of the Labor Party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced that he fully supports the military actions of GNOME. Despite swelling support within his own ranks to "allow the KDE inspectors more time", Blair has decided that it is in his nation's best interest to support a full, all out GNOME invasion against the rogue college. Early reports from the battlefield place the GNOME armies at the steps of the MIT intelligence officials' walls just days after initial operations began. It is said that a jubilant crowd erupted from at least two dormitories from the North Eastern MIT desert.

Iraqi intelligence quickly refuted the claims on Abu Dhabi and Al Jazeera, claiming that the imperialist GNOME crusaders have been meeting swift ends well before reaching the university level. "We have already plunged the burning spear of Allah deep into the hearts of thousands of infidels. KDE shall prove victorious"

Re:Recycled joke

[evilviper]

"They have aluminum centerfuges," Bush said, "that they are using to make atomic weapons."

"Uh, Mr. Bush... Some people call those 'soda cans'."

MIT of course

[ChrisGuest]

They've all gone there to meet Gnome Chomsky.

At long last,..

[E1v!$]

Finally a new story worthy of Slashdot!!!

Stuff that matters

[den_erpel]

I am just wondering of these kinds of student jokes are news for slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, yeah, that applies for this news item, yes it does, it has changed my life!

Or could it be that if anything happens at MIT, this gets posted?

ah, the benefits of peer review...

Norway, home of the gnomes

[GQuon]

Norway [visitnorway.com] is full of nomes [aksjon.fix.no] allready. (Well it is really more like a -1 Troll, or -1 Flamebait, but whatever).

gnome mirror [online.no].

Search [alltheweb.com]

Sorry

Uninspired

[dnoyeb]

I am not impressed. Where is the skill? Where is the "how did they do that?" factor?

Maybe if the gnome had been *inside* the 'alarmed room,' that would have been something.

You know, guys throw toilet paper across trees all year around at colleges, is that news worthy? Oh, maybe if its at MIT?

No Gnomes!

[Cruciform]

There are NO GNOMES in MIT. Or in Baghdad. If there were, we would destroy the infidels! - The Iraqi Information Minister

As a student at MIT,

[Tall Rob Mc]

It is 11:20pm on a Friday. I am sitting in the cluster in question. It feels like it will take me years to create and compile all of these modules. It started out as a class, but grew into a final project and I will keep coding until I reach critical sleep deprivation levels. It has taken me well over 4 hours to get this far. The hardest part of doing it is resisting the party nearby. Screw it. Beer time.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[GrouchoMarx]

It took all of us (literally) years to compile and create all of these gnomes.

It took you years to compile GNOME? Dude, you need a faster computer.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[Arandir]

No, not to compile it, but to find all the dependencies hidden about the web...

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[FFFish]

Then please answer a question: what's so "hack" about this?

Is there something special about this facility? Did it require Mission Impossible stunts, hanging from wires and redirecting the laser detectors?

Or did some doofus just walk in through an unlocked door, scatter a bunch of gnomes around, and walk out?

On the face of it, it doesn't seem as impressive as putting Beetles on flagpoles.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[ortholattice]

There is no "Stanley Blitzer" at MIT. You guys have been had.

As a student at MIT, the parent is a troll

[Frac]

Don't mod someone up just because he claims to know what's going on.

See for yourself - http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=stanley+blizte r [mit.edu]

There is no Stanley Blitzer

[jdreed1024]

If there is a Stanley Blizter at MIT, he doesn't exist in the Faculty Directory, nor does he have an Athena Account. The parent is a troll. Whoever modded it up to 5 is an idiot.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[GiMP]

This hack was done in my senior year of high school with plastic, green army men. There were a thousand of them.. I wouldn't doubt if the school still has them floating around on top of lockers, underneath gym bleachers, on top of award trophy cabinets, etc.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[sg_oneill]

Dude, everyone gets stories bounced from time to time. Ive had one accepted and two bounced. Shit I'm even a journalist by trade, so you'd expect it. But everyone gets bounced.
Accept it and get over it.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[@madeus]

I think your missing the point of why people complain about article rejection here on Slashdot...

Slashdot editors regularly and frequently (not just 'now and then', but frequently) reject interesting stories by many people, then, days, weeks or months later repost the same story (often with a worse writeup) *several times*.

I've seen it happen many times, and read other people's write ups that they got rejected, as well as have it happen to me.

*That's* what pisses people off. It's illogical and annoying.

Re:As a professor at MIT,

[ortholattice]

"Funny, it seemed rather real to those of us sitting in the Athena cluster this week"

"...rather real..." "...those of us..." Oh, the humanity! Spare me while I puke. So the photos were taken there, so what? You were terrorized by a couple of hundred (if that many) toy figures? What's next, Wellesley College's computer center invaded by Barbie dolls? Gimme a break. So you freshman had your lame little laugh, this is nothing compared to my day.

Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[circletimessquare]

i don't care about my story ego.

just do this: mentally compare the story value of the passing of a computer science pioneer to that of plastic gnomes on campus.

by being the submitter of the story, i was privy to the contrast when my story on his passing got rejected at the same this gnome story got posted.

the contrast got me miffed.

i don't have anything against gnomes or funny stories! great!

i don't care if my story gets rejected! happens all the time.

i just want SOMEONE to get this story posted, anyo

Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[Tumbleweed]

Hardly a new trend - the same thing happened when I submitted the story about when the author of ping died, and various other 'important' stories. Trying to predict whether a story would be accepted on slashdot is an exercise in futility. I've officially stopped trying.

I met Ed Codd once

[hughk]

and Chris Date. Both were presenting at a conference about distributed databases a loonng time ago. Codd & Date are essentially reponsible for the theory behind much of what we are using on a daily basis.

I don't see planting a bunch of gnomes in the computer room at MIT of any significance at all. Vaguely amussing on a slow news day, that is all. Of course I know about gnomes and Gnome, but wtf is this doing here. Good tech hacks like CCC's blinkenlights yes, but otherwise, sorry no!!!!

Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED

[Anonymous Coward]

This is slashdot, remember? You have to wait at least 48 hours before information like that can be posted. Then it will be posted twice in the same day.