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Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500
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on Tue May 29, 2007 03:14 PM
from the tux-and-rolls dept.
from the tux-and-rolls dept.
thanksforthecrabs writes to let us know that the Linux-sponsored Indy 500 car had a rough day at the track this weekend: it was the first car to crash on the track and finished dead last. Joost sponsored a car that came in a respectable seventh.
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strredwolf writes "Despite generating over $12K in funds, well short of the $250K goal, the Tux 500 Project was able to secure a spot in the Indy 500 with driver Roberto Moreno piloting the Linux #77 Indy car. He's back in the pack in 31st place (only 5.5 MPH separates 31st place from 1st) but was able to secure it by re-qualifying with an average speed of 220.299 MPH. Will Moreno be able to pilot the penguin-tipped Indy car to victory next week at the 91st Indianapolis 500?"
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Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.sfu.ca/~rdickie)
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
In other news the Windows Vista car was slow off the line, but the car looked good and the driver was heard screaming "accept" as the car lurched forward and stopped every time he used the accelerator.
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
One horrible joke deserves another!
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.tabula-rasa3d.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 04, @08:43AM)
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Saturday November 03, @04:58AM)
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday November 21 2005, @11:45AM)
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
The Blue Car of Death (Score:5, Funny)
(http://honeypot.net/ | Last Journal: Friday April 07 2006, @09:33AM)
Visual data? (Score:4, Funny)
(http://swizec.com/)
Re:Visual data? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Visual data? (Score:5, Funny)
No... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No... (Score:5, Insightful)
The reason was obvious (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @10:09AM)
The penguin couldn't see over the dashboard.
Oblig pengion joke (Score:5, Funny)
It's a hot day, and not being an African penguin [wikipedia.org] doesn't like the heat and decides to get an ice cream cone to cool off.
Of course, hot as it is it drips all over her chest. An hour later she goes to check on her car.
"Looks like you blew a seal," the machanic says.
"Oh, no," laughs the penguin, "That's just ice cream."
I blame Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Let a bot moderate this one (Score:5, Funny)
to paraphrase John Glen (Score:5, Funny)
now we know how Bill Gates feels
Good Publicity (Score:2)
(http://www.jdkoftinoff.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday July 15, @06:44PM)
--jeffk++
Re:Good Publicity (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.hyperlogos.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @08:19PM)
There was a slashdot story about it, so you have no reason to complain HERE about not knowing about it.
Actually, there almost wasn't a story here; out of about twenty or twenty-five submissions that I saw cross the firehose on various days, only one was not written by a complete fucking idiot.
Some had the URL only in the submitter's name. Some had no links; some of those had the URL in the text, and some didn't. Most of the rest had stupid pithy comments about linux. Some of them had people whining about how it hadn't appeared on the front page yet.
This is the standard state of affairs. It turns out that slashdot isn't actually a more intelligent group than any other bunch of people who like computers and have web access; probably 90-95% of the story submissions suffer from the same problems. There would be a lot more stories on the slashdot front page if the majority of people who submit them weren't dumbfucks. The sad thing is that a lot of the submitted stories are quite interesting, but a leet-speaking myspacecase would do a better job with the submission. At least kids know how to make links in HTML.
Re:Good Publicity (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://forkforge.org/)
Sadly, yes. I have been spending quite some time in the firehose myself, and it is pretty terrible. IMHO, the firehose needs some additional options besides just a thumbs up/thumbs down.
This submission should be on the front page.
This submission is terrible but the subject should be posted on the front page.
The subject is terrible.
The linked-to article is obviously stupid/hoax/idiotic, but merits some discussion anyway.
This submission is on the same subject as (identify another submission)
This way, the editors could see, "Hey, this block of 20 submissions were all identified by firehosers as being of the same subject, and the subject is considered important, I'll look at a few of the submissions and cobble together something."
A driver problem, for sure (Score:5, Funny)
Yep (Score:4, Funny)
ouch (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ouch (Score:5, Funny)
(http://jinxidoru.blogspot.com/)
Re:Not "Will Turner's Locker"... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Perhaps not, but lots of teenage girls would gladly give up their booty to him.
-l
Calm down (Score:4, Funny)
Who's panicking? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday August 07, @01:18PM)
Yeah but (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday May 03 2006, @12:27PM)
Drinking (Score:5, Funny)
The Microsoft Car (Score:1)
(http://blog.thetechnonaut.com/)
Aswathama hathaha (kunjarah) (Score:4, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yudhishtira#Drona.27
I guess 2007... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I guess 2007... (Score:4, Funny)
7th place? pffffft (Score:2)
Of course it crashed... (Score:3, Funny)
Must have been a BTD (Score:2)
Not Ready (Score:4, Funny)
Just need to spin this the right way... (Score:1)
(http://dfsmith.net/ | Last Journal: Friday March 10 2006, @07:09PM)
So that's what happened to tux500 (Score:1)
genric drivers (Score:1)
obligatory... (Score:1)
(http://www.cydvicious.com./home/)
...but the Go Daddy girl did ok. (Score:1)
And I'd much rather see her on the track.
RTFM (Score:5, Funny)
(http://lunarworks.ca/)
I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
(http://nebupookins.net/)
Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
F1 and Linux (Score:1)
(http://anotherugly.wordpress.com/)
More obligatory responses (Score:2, Funny)
(http://dementiaofmagic.net/)
At first, it appeared to be a problem with the IndyCar extensions to X, given the user was able to take it down to a console-based tow truck (it wasn't pretty, but it at least got a controlled shutdown). However, further investigation showed it was definitely a hardware issue, as the system couldn't get back on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway network after a full restart of the engine. Most probable cause was a network collision.
Spread Firefox (Score:1)
(http://www.anal0g.org/ | Last Journal: Friday January 25 2002, @01:28AM)
1. Donate directly to open source developers.
2. Donate directly to open source project organizers, moderators, user supporters, testers and bug reporters.
3. Donate directly to open source projects that you don't use.
4. Donate to EFF and/or FSF.
5. Donate to scholarship funds.
6. Burn your money in a trash can.
7. Donate to Tux 500 or SpreadFirefox
Campaigns like SpreadFirefox and Tux 500 are bad for OSS. They takes money that could be going to open source projects and give it to newspapers and (in this case) crashy car drivers.
Some open source developers will reject compensation, others will welcome it. In my opinion, they get first dibs on any money coming in.
Next in priority is tackling the administrative costs of operating an open source project, namely compensating the individuals and institutions that volunteer time and effort and bandwidth maintaining servers and moderating forums, etc.
If you feel you've given amply to all the projects you love and use and can't think of anything better to do with your money, why not support a project that you don't use? Or perhaps even a project that you dislike? Linux supporters support FreeBSD and vice versa. At least then the money stays in the community.
EFF and FSF are great organizations that need your bucks. EFF protects your favorite project from frivolous imaginary patent lawsuits and FSF promotes OSS intelligently.
If you still have money to burn, give it to scholarship funds or schools to help foster the education of the next generation of open source developers.
If after all that you've still got cash in your pocket, Mr. Gates, then you have RMS' permission to burn it or give it to other worthy causes, but for the love of God please do not support campaigns like SpreadFirefox and Tux 500 or any other campaign that aims to "get the word out" or crap like that because when push comes to shove, it's just writing a check to the New York Times instead of the hard working people who make your favorite open source project possible.
Thanks,
_aa_
Dear Driver (Score:5, Funny)
This was why I didn't like the idea (Score:2)
(http://www.funchesmedia.com/)
of paying so much money for a sponsorship. The driver is not going to get a lot of media attention, and the only way Linux was going to get any television time was if a) the car won (unlikely) or b) the car crashed/engine blew up (very likely). Choice b would yield very little air time, and with drivers like Hornish Jr., Dixon, Castroneves, Kanaan, Wheldon, and Patrick, Moreno would have to get very lucky.
Please, stop raising money for pointless advertisements and sponsorships. Open-source would benefit from better and more effective means of advertising.
I said it (Score:2)
(http://www.thegallos.com/)
Thankfully they use a closed sores driver (Score:2)
Who's Joost? (Score:3)
Maybe they shouldn't have used opensource lug nuts (Score:1)
Maybe they shouldn't have used open source lug nuts... next time get proprietary lug nuts and use an ndis wrapper.
I was at Indy (Score:1)
Here's some of my videos (I know, I need a new camera) --
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-54575453
Here's my pictures, although you won't see Tux in them --
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/head_dunce/album/5764
If this Tux500 thing had something to offer me, like access to the garages, I would have helped out with the sponsorship. To just give money to get a Tux sticker on a car seems like something Red Hat or Novell should be doing, not me. Although I'm sure the guy who thought of this idea had access to the pits, garages, or anywhere else he wanted to go...
BSOD car (Score:1)
(http://www.geocities.com/tablizer | Last Journal: Saturday March 15 2003, @01:22PM)
No wonder, (Score:1)
Poor driver, The next time there must be an internet line in the car to google it fast,
Stallman GNU car (Score:3, Funny)
He will forget the race and heads straight toward reporter's station when one of them calls his car, linux car, by mistake.
Linux car crashes first (Score:2, Insightful)
It does not metter WHY (Score:1, Funny)
What??? (Score:2)
PEBSWAC (Score:2)
(http://wolfger.wordpress.com/)
Off To A Good Start !! (Score:1)
(http://www.myspace.com/naturalismandbalance)
section 1:
12: Rule of Repair - When you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.
Section 2:
3: Build a prototype as soon as possible
Section 3:
1. Allow the user to tailor the environment
9. Worse is better
I think the Linux car gave it a good Unix style first run. If it was a Windows
car, The steering wheel would have frozen, the car would have taken off in the
wrong direction for a while, everything would stop moving and you would left stuck
unable to get out or turn it off.
ms driver (Score:1)
(http://www.idiotproofwebsite.com/)
Re:In other news.. (Score:1, Troll)
(Last Journal: Tuesday February 20 2007, @01:51PM)
Re:(union linux-geeks nascar-fans) (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:(union linux-geeks nascar-fans) (Score:1)
Re:(union linux-geeks nascar-fans) (Score:2)
Re:(union linux-geeks nascar-fans) (Score:2)
(http://www.hyperlogos.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @08:19PM)
Does this [indy500.com] look like NASCAR to you?
It would be better if you checked to see if you knew what you were talking about before posting comments.
Not NASCAR (Score:5, Funny)
OMFG! IT'S 1999 AGAIN!