Gingerbread Computers! 191
wiggles writes "Here's a link to what is perhaps the most delicious computer ever. What else are geeks doing differently this Christmas?"
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Which'll be the first to go up in flames... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which'll be the first to go up in flames... (Score:4, Informative)
Here is another editable computer (Score:2)
Just add Slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
Server down... (Score:2)
Merry christmas you assholes. [playingwithfire.org]
yum (Score:3, Funny)
and the laptop (Score:3, Funny)
Although, at look what it's running. Only good for eating and shitting out.
Re:and the laptop (Score:3, Funny)
Re:and the laptop (Score:5, Funny)
Pure idiocy...the essence of geek! (Score:1)
C Is For Cookie (Score:5, Funny)
In accordance to the terms of my computer's warranty, I am formally requesting onsite service. Please send any and all technicians you have named Hansel and Gredel.
Sincerely,
A Hungry Witch"
Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:5, Informative)
Very cool. Thanks,
Gonna go crack a bottle of champagne now.
Love,
Kristen
Re:Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Love,
Kristen
Re:Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:2, Funny)
In reality, I am a 38 year old woman pretending to be a girl. Some days I do better than others. Getting slashdotted has made me pretty giddy; I feel about 16 today.
Love,
Kristen
Re:Stupid Dialup. . . (Score:3, Funny)
Getting Slashdotted makes me feel like...
a) getting mugged in a dark alley
b) a driveby shooting
c) a black friday sale
d) i'm a proletariat being taken advantage of by the bourgoisie
e) an iraqi in baghdad 18 months ago
f) a marine in mosul now
G) a 16 year old girl
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Re:Hmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Hmm.... (Score:2)
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Re:Hmm.... (Score:2)
What did I find? I'll leave that for you to discover . . .
Re:Hmm.... (Score:4, Informative)
Took me a while to figure out what you meant when I called it up. A plain tan jpeg didn't seem very evil to me, even if was large. I take it that inferior browsers have some sort of difficulty with it due to its size. Konqueror handled it without breaking stride.
Chris Mattern
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(There is an 18000x18000 picture that ruins people even with high-end machines using text to image.)
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Coralized Gingerbread [nyud.net].
Re:Hmm.... (Score:2)
Must be a prototype (Score:5, Funny)
Windows crashing (Score:1)
Site is dead (Score:1)
Poor blog... (Score:1)
Trivia for you (Score:5, Insightful)
This would seem to suggest it may be possible to build the ENTIRE computer (motherboard, chips and all) out of confectionary.
Re:Trivia for you (Score:1)
No obvious reason? (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, I don't think crystal oscillators are in the critical path of making computers from candy. They offer a high resonant frequency and good enough stability, but you could as well run a PC from an LC-oscillator. Yes, one cycle may be longer than
Re:Trivia for you (Score:2)
Answer! (Score:1, Funny)
We're whacking off with our left hands, rather than the usual right hand.
I'm making... (Score:2, Funny)
What else? What else! (Score:5, Funny)
Enjoying my piece of coal, you insensitive clod.
Re:What else? What else! (Score:1)
Not [stillhq.com] making another Twinkle Tux [stillhq.com], thankyou. Coal, I find, is far too crunchy.
Please, wait, slashdotting is in progress... (Score:2)
Overclock (Score:1)
MIRROR (Score:3, Insightful)
OK...WHICH ONE OF YOU DID IT? (Score:1)
I could never post a story from my own site... (Score:1)
Bah, this is the most delicious computer ever (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bah, this is the most delicious computer ever (Score:2)
I'm Jewish.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm Jewish.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm Jewish.... (Score:2, Informative)
Why not, hey why not make a beowulf cluster out of it, 9 stands for 9 computers. Make them out of P4s and you won't even need to light it, just let the CPUs spread the glow of the warmth. Perfect gift for the holidays for our brothers of the jewish faith.
For those who don't know what one is check check this out. [jewishvirtuallibrary.org]
Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas and for those who happen to be on the road this year, remember that it only takes one lose nut in a car to crash it... so keep you he
Ooh (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like their server is made out of gingerbread.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
But does it run Linux?
I think I'm getting the blue frosting of death.
Step 1: make computer out of gingerbread
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
But is it kosher?
I'd hit it!
Re:Ooh (Score:1)
In Korea only old people eat computers...
or
In Soviet Russia Computer Gingerbresds YOU!
Re:Ooh (Score:2)
Yum indeed (Score:1)
Nobody thinks about the /. victim (Score:1)
I don't know what the joke is about for slashdotting their bread server and turning their phone line into butter.
But.... (Score:1)
a WORKING gingerbread computer (Score:4, Informative)
Christmas!? (Score:1)
I celebrate the Winter Solstice [atheists.org] you insensitive clod!
nyud.net mirror (Score:1, Insightful)
Gingerbread CPU huh... (Score:1)
Run! gingerbread-man, run! (Score:1)
The lack of comments... (Score:2)
IMAGE MIRROR (Score:3, Informative)
Re:IMAGE MIRROR (Score:4, Informative)
What else are geeks doing this Christmas? (Score:1)
don't take it to lan parties, (Score:1)
digitally signed...... (Score:1)
Half life 2 cookies (Score:2)
Re:Half life 2 cookies (Score:2)
go on. laugh.
Ginger, the Gingerbread Village Server (Score:1, Redundant)
Hmmm (Score:2)
Server is not dead (Score:2, Informative)
Our 8 megabit DSL nearly melted down, but the kindness of (mirroring) strangers has helped out quite a bit.
I'm chuffed that the little server we run is surviving a
Re:Server is not dead (Score:2)
IMB Thinkpad 20M (Score:2, Informative)
Last year, IMB created Thinkpad 20M [itmedia.co.jp], special model celebrating its twenty million shipments of Thinkpads. Its development concept is, in contrast to normal Thinkpad, to make bulky, thick Thinkpad with half-day warranty. It's made of nearly 100% natural materials and tastes good.
Note: linked article is written in Japanese.
Yeah it's nice and all (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yeah it's nice and all (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, what you need to worry about is the SANTA RAID. Please remember to back up your data to a non-edible format.
Doing something different..... (Score:1)
Taking a shower, and going out socialising!
I kiiiiid, I kiiiid
Season's Beatings (Score:5, Funny)
I thought this story would be sweet, but it is so overdone.
I've heard of brownouts, but this is ridiculous!
So if I run Firefox and refuse cookies, does my computer explode?
I don't know if I have a virus, or food poisoning.
I'm partial to the Mary Ann mod.
I'd like a new video card, but I don't have enough bread for that.
Thank you, thank you - I'll be here all week. Or until the booze runs out.
Looks delicious.... (Score:1)
Gingerbread cluster (Score:1)
OMG (Score:3, Funny)
Unbelievable.
rorriM (Score:2)
Pic 2 (Full) [drirc.net]
pepperkake penguins (Score:2)
check it out [yahoo.com]
pepperkake recipe [recipecottage.com]
Computers are people !?!? (Score:3, Funny)
My favorite comment on the article's blog: (Score:2)
It's funny. Laugh.
Great! (Score:3, Funny)
What else are geeks doing differently? (Score:2, Funny)
i'm planning on bathing.. i thought it'd be something neat to try around the holidays... what the heck, you know?
Gingerbread Apple IIgs (Score:2)
If you were fortunate enough to be attending Vanderbilt University [vanderbilt.edu] at the time, you could have seen it displayed at the Vanderbilt Computer Store (now out of business).
Rare... (Score:2)
Cool, but will it run Doom 3? (Score:2)
Re:This isn't funny guys. (Score:1)
But.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:More importantly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What else are geeks doing this Christmas? (Score:2)
I mean ... (Score:3, Funny)