Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame 68
xmas2003 writes "Over at Linux.com, Zonker writes about Alek's Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease.
This annual Internet tradition uses a hi/low-tech combo of LAMP'ed Redhat Web Servers, a 7+ year old Thinkpad running Ubuntu for the X10 control, and an old-school webpage design that could be politely described as Web 0.0 — wait until you see the animated cursor — D'OH! The site is free (and totally fun) as it also raises awareness and donations for Celiac Disease — over $70,000 to the University of Maryland.
Nifty pictures of the crazy christmas display can be seen on the Christmas Blog (notice Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg in post #220) plus watch videos of it in action with comedic history.
Nothing quite says Christmas like a giant, inflatable HULK wearing a Santa Hat... along with three wise men of Elmo, SpongeBob, and Homer Simpson. The Slashdot Effect of turning 21,000 Christmas lights ON & OFF this evening should provide quite a Christmas Eve show to Alek's neighbors... and also the International Space Station."
easter mini-eggs (Score:2, Interesting)
load the site in Opera
It's melting! (Score:3, Interesting)
I think
Don't forget to donate if you can
All you negative people... (Score:1, Interesting)
What have you done to raise money for a charity and generally lift the spirits of people all over the world?
If the page layout bothers you so much then stop criticizing and volunteer to help.
Re:All you negative people... (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm curious what fund raising for celiac disease is truly needed. As someone with it, it's as simple as not eating gluten, and that's as simple as not eating grains (they're not good for you anyway). The only trouble is eating out or with otherwise unlabelled food.
Re:Yeah! (Score:2, Interesting)
Yes, but it's ghetto and hackish. It's not transparent either. It causes sharing permission hell if a drive is mounted as the subfolder of a shared folder. Nothing near as clean as smooth as a Linux (POSIX?) filesystem mount.