MIT Gnome Invasion 230
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 (Score:1, Funny)
Other MIT hacks (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Other MIT hacks (Score:5, Informative)
My favorites (Score:2)
Re:Other MIT hacks (Score:5, Funny)
Do the Gnomes Talk to You? (Score:3, Funny)
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.... (Score:3, Funny)
Go calculate [webcalc.net] something
This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:5, Funny)
Except us, of course.
Party on, clbyjack81!
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:2)
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:2)
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:1, Insightful)
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? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:This is Slashdot worthy? (Score:2, Interesting)
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? (Score:2)
Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome? (Score:1)
Re:Exactly how do you exterminate a gnome? (Score:2, Funny)
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? (Score:3, Funny)
(For those who don't know, you'll have to read the Harry Potter books to find out. ^_^)
HELP! (Score:5, Funny)
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! (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you, Mr Revere
Re:HELP! (Score:5, Funny)
It's the only way to be sure.
And somewhere... (Score:2, Funny)
You guys at MIT are smart and all, (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You guys at MIT are smart and all, (Score:5, Funny)
All the bases covered! (Score:5, Funny)
I think some people really need to get lives.
Re:All the bases covered! (Score:5, Funny)
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! (Score:3, Funny)
Shouldn't this be:
IN SOVIET UNION: 23 YEAR OLD GUY SEEKS YOU!
About Time! (Score:1)
GOT A GNOME PROBLEM?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:GOT A GNOME PROBLEM?? (Score:2)
phase 2 (Score:5, Funny)
Move along, nothing to see here!! (Score:1)
MIT???? (Score:4, Funny)
*click click click click click*
What's that noise??
Why it's a metrognome
I'm truly sorry for this post.
Metrognome (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Metrognome (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Metrognome (Score:2)
No, you're thinking of this gnome [hyprmynd.com]. =)
Re:MIT???? (Score:2)
scripsit Bearded Pear Shaped:
I thought it was the Ankh-Morpork School of Reflected Sound as of Underground Spirits?
Well gnomes eh?, a little story (Score:1)
HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED (Score:2, Offtopic)
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 (Score: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 (Score:1)
Who needs relational databases? (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:Who needs relational databases? (Score:2)
Re:Who needs relational databases? (Score:2)
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 (Score:3, Interesting)
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 (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
Re:Details (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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... (Score:1, Troll)
Bouncing Gnomes (Score:1, Funny)
Pshaw... Gnome invasion. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pshaw... Gnome invasion. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pshaw... Gnome invasion. (Score:2)
posted from a VAX running NetBSD...
Re:Pshaw... Gnome invasion. (Score:2)
Slashdot troll invasion (Score:3, Funny)
"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 ... (Score:2, Funny)
And that's on a good day
I am from the government and I am here to help. (Score:5, Funny)
We have proven that gnomes do not exist.
Wait.. (Score:2)
HE's not from the government-he's from MICROSOFT! (Score:2)
DON'T LOOK INTO THE LIGHT, HE'LL ERASE YOUR
<FLASH>
Confused (Score:2)
Jhonen Would Be Proud (Score:2, Funny)
Bastard gnome stole my panties . . . (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.sdplotkin.com/img/gnome.jpg
Re:Bastard gnome stole my panties . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Just kidding...
This is new? (Score:5, Funny)
Sponsored by SUN (Score:2)
Labs of Sun machines, that's why (Score:3, Informative)
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? (Score:3, Funny)
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? (Score:2)
their backpacks.
From the desk of Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf (Score:2, Funny)
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? (Score:5, Interesting)
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 (Score:3, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
"Uh, Mr. Bush... Some people call those 'soda cans'."
MIT of course (Score:5, Funny)
At long last,.. (Score:2)
Stuff that matters (Score:3, Funny)
Or could it be that if anything happens at MIT, this gets posted?
ah, the benefits of peer review...
Norway, home of the gnomes (Score:2)
gnome mirror [online.no].
Search [alltheweb.com]
Sorry
Uninspired (Score:2, Interesting)
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! (Score:2)
As a student at MIT, (Score:2, Funny)
Re:As a professor at MIT, (Score:4, Funny)
It took you years to compile GNOME? Dude, you need a faster computer.
Re:As a professor at MIT, (Score:2)
Re:As a professor at MIT, (Score:2)
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, (Score:2)
As a student at MIT, the parent is a troll (Score:4, Informative)
See for yourself - http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=stanley+blizt
There is no Stanley Blitzer (Score:2)
Re:As a professor at MIT, (Score:2)
Re:As a professor at MIT, (Score:2)
Accept it and get over it.
Re:As a professor at MIT, (Score:2)
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, (Score:2)
"...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 (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
I met Ed Codd once (Score:2)
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 (Score:2, Funny)