date +%s Turning 1111111111 574
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initsix writes "Break out your party hats. According to http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm , Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111 on
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT
That's only 1036372537 seconds from 2^31 (ie Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:08 GMT)!!"
Eh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eh... (Score:5, Insightful)
k-thx-bye
Re:Eh... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Eh... (Score:3, Insightful)
Big 00000000 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Big 00000000 (Score:2, Informative)
At 8:00 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT) April 9, 2005 +$H turns 60000! [nemug.org]
I win!
Re:Big 00000000 (Score:5, Funny)
You couldn't be geekier if you were actually standing there with a Dungeon Master's Guide in your hand.
-The old Dungeon Master's Guide or the new one? Because the new ones are swwweeeeeeet!
I stand NOT corrected.
[/Get Fuzzy]
=tkk
Re:Big 00000000 (Score:3, Funny)
0xDEADBEEF
party till its 1999 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:party till its 1999 (Score:5, Funny)
Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Woohoo! (Score:2)
Don't you mean 946684799? Or did you mean 11111001111?
Re:Woohoo! (Score:2)
Did you mean Time to party like it's 946684799 [corz.org]
ObPedantic (Score:5, Funny)
I hereby lay claim to at least 00000100 of fdrake76's geek points, preferably in the form of Funny or Informative.
Re:ObPedantic (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ObPedantic (Score:5, Funny)
No, you won't.
Re:ObPedantic (Score:3, Funny)
Is ``miffed'' the new euphemism for ``dead''?
Ahh, but I can! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
people with way too much free time on their hands (Score:5, Funny)
Re:people with way too much free time on their han (Score:5, Funny)
-- quoth the Slashdot poster.
It gets better ! (Score:5, Funny)
don't forget people you can see the following amazing sights on your home digital clock without modifications !!
11:11:11
01:01:01
00:00:00
12:34:56
please feel free to add your own
what clock (Score:3, Funny)
send it back!
Re:what clock (Score:3, Informative)
(Yes, I know that you were joking)
Re:what clock (Score:5, Informative)
23:59:59
00:00:00
00:00:01
makes more sense, at least if you're used to it.
Re:what clock (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
Only if she's 5'3"!
Re:It gets better ! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:5, Funny)
I haven't been able to get anything other than:
Re:It gets better ! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
There should be prizes for things like that.
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
That's not a clock, you're actually looking at your cellphone, and your signal went from 4 to 3 bars:
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Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
-Jesse
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
Hey man, thanks. You're pretty tleet too.
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:binary is all the rage (Score:3, Informative)
Absolute-precision decimal math. No crufty repeating-binary rounding errors. Go ahead, try to store 1/10 as an absolute-precision binary number. Can't be done, because it's a repeating binary: 0001100110011100110011....
Fixed-point BCD stores it precisely. 0000000000010000
BCD is pretty popular where precision fixed-point decimal math is important...like finance. A few hundredths of a penny here, a few hundredths of a penny there....multiply times about a billion transact
Egad! (Score:2, Funny)
Dumbest! (Score:2, Funny)
Financial news: Candle sales skyrocket! (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:2)
Wait, what the fuck is so special about 11:11:11?
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
here come the consultants! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, this scares me.... has anyone actually looked into the Y2.038205K crisis?
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:3, Funny)
Unless we get a brain tumor and die first. That would suck.
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:4, Funny)
We? We're all going to get the same brain tumor?
I imagine that -would- suck.
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:2)
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:2)
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:3, Funny)
Only a (Score:2, Funny)
This must be quite a party (Score:3, Funny)
Here's the process... (Score:3, Insightful)
2) Bored Unix programmer sees that this is equivalent to just a little while from now.
3) Bored Unix programmer tosses around a few more numbers and submits the story to Slashdot.
4) Story becomes Slashdot front-page news.
Re:Here's the process... (Score:2, Funny)
6) PROFIT!!!!
Okay, I can't believe I posted that
-oh well,
om
Here's the meta-process... (Score:5, Funny)
2) Bored websurfer notices another lame story on the frontpage.
3) Bored websurfer posts uninsightful comment about how lame story submissions are produced.
4) Bored websurfer gets modded up as +1 Insightful.
5) Meta-reply gets modded up as +1 Funny or -1 Presumptious
also interesting - 2038 (Score:5, Informative)
(by that time, we will all have at least 64-bit systems, but still a cause for concern, read the link)
Re:also interesting - 2038 (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:also interesting - 2038 (Score:2)
Didn't you see the bitchfest about Debian considering dropping support for the smaller architectures?
Some
Y2K (Score:5, Funny)
Slow news day (Score:3)
Oh well, since I am at GMT - 6, I guess that means it will be Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:58:31 CST for me. I'll have to set my alarm clock.
Next Party (Score:5, Informative)
Looks like the next big day will be @ 1234567890 which happens to be: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT
Guess we better celebrate this cause we'll have to wait quite awhile for the party!
Re:Next Party (Score:2, Funny)
It will, just not on the computer you're using right now :-)
Re:Next Party (Score:3, Insightful)
One place the unix timestamp has made it into literature is in Vernor Vinge's "Deep" books: A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in the Sky. In the latter, there are a number of uses of a "day" onboard their starship that is 100,000 seconds long, and was based on a semi-mythical OS on early computers 8,000 years earlier, back before humans left their original planet and spread out into the galaxy. They routinely use kiloseconds as the main div
Re:Next Party (Score:3, Funny)
Not much closer, but closer.
Title? (Score:2)
date +%s Turning 1111111111!!!!lllloneoneonebbq?
On all Unixes? (Score:5, Funny)
And do we get to sacrifice a virgin when the time comes? Or would sacrificing a non-virgin make more sense in this crowd? : )
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:3, Funny)
You have to catch the virgin first. Sadly, this should prove very difficult for those reading this article.
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:5, Funny)
How so? I figure stringing up a fishing net over the cubicle next door should take care of this. I just hope he doesn't get the same idea first...
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:2)
Fake Nerds (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:2)
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:5, Funny)
nauganerds
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:3, Funny)
I nominate "fnord"
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:3, Funny)
You need a web-site to tell you that? (Score:2)
Thu Mar 17 20:58:31 EST 2005
it's a unique enough occasion (Score:2)
Well, 2222222222 is Sat, 02 Jun 2040 03:57:02 GMT
Ugliest submission ever (Score:3, Funny)
ah HA! (Score:5, Funny)
Wear your propeller beanie and a t-shirt that says "Kiss Me I use Unix".
Yeah, but in hex... (Score:4, Funny)
...it's 0x423a35c7, which isn't particularily meaningful.
Wake me up when it's 0x42424242 or something, okay?
Yaz.
I can't wear a party hat... (Score:2, Funny)
Lucky 7's! (Score:2)
What happens in 2038? (Score:5, Interesting)
I ask because once I get my time machine going (which runs on Unix), I want to be able to go farther into the future than 2038. I'm serious... Seriously.
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:3, Interesting)
This is going to be another Y2K, in that those who are concerned with the flaw will have worked out the problems years in advance, and the press will have a heyday of Doom-and-Gloom reports telling everyone to stack up on baseball bats with nails in them, football pads, and "juice" for the coming apocalypse brought on by the proud and ignorant computer "experts" we were all trusting.
When the moment comes and goes without incident, they'll proclaim it a victory for the n
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:5, Insightful)
[PutsOnNostradamusHat]
The only reason that the y2k computer problem was such a media event is because the year 2000 was such a media event. People were expecting the world to end, the y2k computer bug fit neatly into that hysteria.
There is nothing about 2038 that will grab media attention. So no boob tube watchers will ever know anything about the date rollover problem.
Then, because there will be no public panic about it, it won't be taken seriously by the PHBs and no matter how much the coders scream about it, no money will be given to the project and it will end up being a much bigger problem than y2k turned out to be.
[\PutsOnNostradamusHat]
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:5, Funny)
I've got this all worked out (Score:5, Funny)
In 2038, I will be 64 years old. I design and write all of my software explictly so that it will break (badly) in 2038. I hope all of my peers do so as well. Everybody who works for me does.
The plan is, about 2033, people will start going insane over the Y2038 problem. I will be able to leverage my experience as a Senior UNIX Systems Programmer with a core strength in C to grab all kinds of consulting money. Then, in 2037, I'll do some hard-code hacking (i.e. enter deep hack mode for about 6 months) for some really high-end clients (whoever has the most cash on hand), and throw a bunch of money in the bank.
This is really great, because I don't have a retirement plan, and I'm sure the old age pension will be bust by the time I'm 65. So, after having watched a bunch of COBOL/CICS/etc guys get rich in the late 90s, I want to do the same thing in my early sixties. The best part is, I watched the Y2K crap roll out, and I know how to play the management types that get stuck with clock problems... so I can suck them into weeks and weeks of meetings at huge consulting rates. Maybe I'll be able to bill $1000/hr by then!
Most programmers older than I will be long gone. Most programmers younger thank I won't be able to understand the problem, due to brain infestations of the of the Microsoft and Java variety.
There will be few old-sk00l UNIX hats running around. I will be one of them. Hopefully, by then, I will be able to grow a grey beard, so I can really look the part. My skills will be in supreme demand. I'll get rich off the problems I helped to create, and retire in comfort.
Don't forget to ntpdate. (Score:5, Funny)
(Germany always seems to work best for me for some reason)
Account for your GMT offset and THEN watch the numbers turn.
Otherwise, you won't feel that disturbance in the force as 1000s of geeks go "Ahhhh"
If you felt that force 4 minutes before the turnover, it's just all those Astronomers going "Ahhhhh" because they converted to Sidereal Time.
Parity On Dudes!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
What about 0x42424242? (Score:5, Informative)
Now 0x42424242 is on Thursday, March 24, 2005 04:29:54 UTC, and depending on your timezone, that is around the beginning of Good Friday. 42 as you know represents the meaning of Life, etc., which is interesting given it occurs around Easter.
In Base2, it is 1000010010000100100001001000010,
which looks better than 1000010001110100011010111000111 or 0x423A35C7.
BTW. 42 has always been the correct answer.
Capture the history (Score:3, Funny)
while [ $(date +%s) != 1111111111 ]
do
echo "Not Yet!"
done
echo "Unix Time"
date +%s
echo "on `date`"
echo "so we captured the history!"
Re:Dang (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
Google Cafeteria Lunch Menu (Score:5, Funny)
* Sweet Potato Jalapeno Bisque with corn
* Creamy Cauliflower Parmesan
Salads
* Warm Southern Chicken Salad tossed in a spicy buttermilk dressing with toasted pecans, corn, green onions and tomatoes
* Tortellini Primavera salad organic tortellini mixed with organic zucchini, yellow squash, tomato sweet peas, pesto vinaigrette
* Organic mixed greens
Entrees
* Grilled Petite New York Sirloins seasoned with Creole spices served with a Crescent City steak sauce and crispy organic onion rings
* Organic Tofu Mushroom Ragout domestic and wild mushrooms, vegetable stock, leeks and tomatoes
Sides
* Roasted Organic Red Potatoes seasoned with New Mexico Chile powder
* Steamed Organic Bluelake green beans
Desserts
* Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake
* Vegan Chocolate Mousse
* Fresh Fruit
Re:Oh dear. (Score:2)
Re:Oh dear. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"Interesting" numbers (Score:5, Insightful)
I like the number 219. There isn't anything special about it -- It's just happens to be one of my favorite ascii characters. (The solid block one.) I stayed in hotel room 219 just yesterday and felt good about having that room number.
Lot's of people attach meaning to the number 42. There isn't anything wrong with that.
Some people find powers of 2 appealing -- imagine driving route 256 -- how cool would that be?
Gamblers may have some attraction or aversion to the numbers 7 and 13 -- some might get a good feeling seeing hte number 21.
Finding an old girlfriends phone number can be nice -- it let's you remember.
I don't know if you have any numbers that are significant in your life -- But I know I do! I don't think I'd want it any other way.
You have to learn to enjoy those small meaningful things -- or you'll miss the whole point of living -- I don't mean the meaning of life, mind you, but the meaning in life.
Re:"Interesting" numbers (Score:3, Insightful)
At this point I'd like to make some witty rejoinder about embrace and extend, but it's just not worth the effort.
Re:"Interesting" numbers (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:to watch it Happen... (Score:4, Interesting)
count down
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