Crushing Experience

sp00 writes "The Tsunamii.Net Crush Server is currently online live from the Millbank Gallery in London! Watch as the webserver counts itself down before it activates the industrial crusher attached to it, bearing 150-tonnes of brute force onto itself and terminating its existence. Check out the details on the Tsunamii.Net website or visit the webserver directly at http://195.195.81.5."

/. first

[Anonymous Coward]

/. will crush it first.

(-1 redundent to the other 300 posts saying the same thing)

If it were a Windows machine...

[Woodmeister]

it would be poetic justice. But they are crushing a Linux box. Why the unjustifiable violence?

cool..

[Suppafly]

Thats a cool idea.. I've often had similar ideas while running the cardboard box crusher at work.. It'd be nice if the webserver had more info than just a counter tho.

A positive application for the /. effect!

[unorthod0x]

Watch as slashdotters from around the world bring the web server to its knees and save the poor server from extinguishing it's own life!

Re:If it were a Windows machine...

[ramzak2k]

But they are crushing a Linux box. Why the unjustifiable violence?
because it might crash before the counter goes down ?

Yea...

[di0s]

...it's got to be running Linux, because if it was running IIS on Windows, the 150 ton hand of the BSA audit department would crush it in no time.

Save Linux!

[KalvinB]

We only have till the 12th to hack the server and save Linux!

For great justice!

Ben

Re:art? Hardly.

[Ooblek]

Nah, its not art. Its "Just Another Useless Thing To Do With The Internet (tm)"

At least they could have put a decent picture of the thing there. You can't even see it well.

Re:cool..

[cscx]

Don't tell me you work in a box factory! [snpp.com]

Save the web server!

[Tim Browse]

To save the server, just turn off Javascript in your browser - the clock immediately stops! Hurrah!

Together, we can rebuild^Wsave it!

Tim

Re:Why time based?

[Tablizer]

If I was trying to do this, instead of making it time based (waiting for a clock to count down) I'd have made it page view based.

I think this feature is unintentionally built into NT.

(I know, I know, bashing NT is a sleazy way to get mod points. Sue me if it works.)

Re:Wonder what the heck this is all about?

[scott1853]

Wow that's deep. The last time I was that amazed what when I first heard a wise philosopher state "What if C-A-T really spelled Dog"?.

Re:Great message

[susano_otter]

Bwahahaha!

Wow, you're funny. Now fuck off an protest the waste of space that is the Louvre.

Re:Why time based?

[Mike the Mac Geek]

I just used all my mod points. It worked.

Re:Save Linux!

[cscx]

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.... I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."

Re:Save the web server!

[wirefarm]

Why not hack in to it and change the web page a bit?
(First adding some ALT tags to those stupid number images...)
Then, add in some pleading messages from the web server:

Please don't let them do this.
I don't want to die.

I am being made to do this under duress.
This is just *wrong* - I could be donated to a school.

That sort of thing...
See if you can convince enough people that this is a horrible, horrible thing to do, that they protest it and have it stopped.

Now *that* would be art. ;-)

Cheers,
Jim

Whew...it's not Asimovian...

[Kaz Riprock]

Could you imagine if this thing had a positronic brain governed by the 3 laws (or any of the modifications)? We'd have a revolution on our hands!

Re:If it were a Windows machine...

[MasTRE]

Buy a CD?

HAHAHAHAHA

Good one dude!

Let's use their own words.. Umm, "Get out of the old!"

;)