Server In A Fly 403
Tablespork writes "These guys have implanted the world's smallest webserver-on-a-chip into a dead fly! From the site: "Fly, grants us the ability to virtually possess the body of a dead, preserved fly via web-based technology." There is a webcam monitoring the fly, so you can watch as you blink the LEDs." And don't worry if something goes wrong with it -- "Several pre-programmed and wired flies will be on hand in case of technical malfunction."
Hmm, an idea... (Score:2, Funny)
(and yes I know it's a beverage...)
Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Not very user friendly (Score:1, Funny)
Why didn't they mount it at head height so you can see it while standing upright?
Evil (Score:5, Funny)
funny... (Score:0, Funny)
Take the time to admire this scientific breakthrough.
woops (Score:5, Funny)
"Why do I get a 404 on the project's page? Bob?"
Seeking cheap karma... (Score:4, Funny)
This raises an interesting possibility! (Score:2, Funny)
Argh! (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdotted? (Score:4, Funny)
Fly Server Admin: Damn you slashdot! Damn you! You killed my baby!
Elegant nevertheless (Score:5, Funny)
PETA (Score:5, Funny)
1. Killing poor flies..
2. Implanting Chips in dead flies..
I suppose (Score:5, Funny)
had to do it (Score:1, Funny)
How to slash(dot) a dead fly (Score:2, Funny)
Then, when you have been online for just a few days, some hord comes down to slashdot your fine new webserver, and the lights go out.
If I were that fly, I'd be pissed.
Which reminds me of superfly. Know him? Check him out somewhere on www.shockwave.com.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:1, Funny)
damn (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Followed shortly by... (Score:2, Funny)
139.142.46.159 [139.142.46.159]
/. death (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Technically pointless (Score:5, Funny)
I did have experiments in the mid 90s with webservers inside dead bodies, but they only led to dismal failures
(RIP Trevor, my flatmate 1992-1995)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hello? RTFA? (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone (including the person who posted this story) actually read the article?
Hi, you must be new here. Hope you find this site interesting.
Shhh! I think I hear it saying something... (Score:5, Funny)
help meeeee... heellp meeeee...
Multitasking on the fly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:PETA (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot... the giant flyswatter (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:PETA (Score:3, Funny)
When you think about it, it does seem abusive to the poor creature.
But I forgot, maybe the fly wasn't killed for the purposes of implanting the webserver and was found already dead someplace. Yeah, that's better.
Somehow though this is not on the same level as "killing a cow" and implanting a webserver.
Heh, I think I just invented the leather encased computer.
I think there would be alot more objection if it was a butterfly though.
Re:woops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I've got no good jokes for this story... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm a pretty funny guy, no I take that back, a REALLY funny guy, but other than the obvious "waiter there's a server in my fly," I just can't think of any good ones.
Wait'll you find out where Mozilla's Bugzilla is hosted...
Hehee..... (Score:5, Funny)
But how... (Score:5, Funny)
webserver in a dead fly (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hello? RTFA? (Score:1, Funny)
hehee :) (Score:2, Funny)
So are they saying (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:3, Funny)
Future IBM Commercial: (Score:5, Funny)
Man hurredly runs with two policemen in tow:
Man: "I can't believe it, they stole everything!"
Cop1: Everything?
Man: "Everything!"
(Man and cops head into empty server room)
Man: "They were right here. Ned! The servers! they stole all the servers!"
Ned: "No, they didn't. I embedded them on a dead fly on the window sill. It'll save us a bundle."
Announcer: "IBM dead fly servers! It'll save you a bundle"
Cop2 (hunched over the window sill): Um, I think that carpenter ant is dragging your server away
Instead of worrying about Slammer... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:3, Funny)
I think the answer to that is pretty obvious. This IS Slashdot after all. We don't need to read an article to have an opinion on it
What happens when ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
You knew this one was coming! (Score:5, Funny)
bugs have your webserver!
I can see it now... (Score:2, Funny)
Admin: "Damn you Slashdot!!!!!!!!!"
For once... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:PETA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:woops (Score:5, Funny)
Buzz Off!
FlyServe 1.01
Technology further complicates our lives (Score:1, Funny)
The point? (Score:5, Funny)
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Boss: "DON'T YOU HAVE WORK TO DO?"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Mother: "What's wrong with a date now and then? I'll trade the dead fly for a grandchild"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Dad: "Is it a job? A dead fly server is nice but you can't eat with it."
hehe (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, couldn't resist
In Soviet Russia, our bugs have programs
Sorry again
Re:Argh! (Score:3, Funny)
Paging Alan Ralsky, Mr. Ralsky, your new colocation provider is waiting to meet you...
There was an old woman who swallowed a .. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, i'll give it a try:
There was an old woman who swallowed a server
It didn't deserve her, but there went the server
and i don't know why /she swallowed the fly/
But we can light up her eyes...
i think this one has to end with...
i know an old woman who took windows source
she's dead, of course! oke, i think it's out of my system now. Apologies for the temporary insanity...
I knew a woman who installed IIS on a horse (Score:4, Funny)
I guess we have to update the song... (Score:5, Funny)
He wriggled and jiggled and put a web server inside.
He posted the fly, a URL for our eye.
(wait for it...)
I don't know why, we slashdotted the fly.
Re:Argh! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:But how... (Score:4, Funny)
It depends on the vendor.
IBM and Sun are starting a new service that will send a tech out to remove and fix the bug and clean your windshield. They are training the urban young for this project I think.
Microsoft is selling a branded accessory kit with a wet wipe to clean the windshield but you have to buy a new OS which was incompatible with the old fly, anyway, so you have to buy a new fly, too.
Dell just says "the fly is dead".
FreeBSD says "Netcraft confirms it...".
Debian has a HOWTO for how to scrape the guts off the windshield and rebuild the fly with no new parts. But it will be better and faster even though it reuses busted old parts.
An Apple fly looks good and works no matter where it is or what it looks like, so you can just leave it on the windshield and it will still work fine and your friends will be impressed but still buy Dells.
HP offers almost all of the above because they can't figure out what direction they're going. They consider buying a car manufacturer, and although Alpha is dead they may revive it to control the fuel injectors; no, wait, they changed their mind. But they hope you buy an HP printer (which by the way will work with any fly, any camera and any car).
Re:Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
This just in ... (Score:3, Funny)
RAID! (Score:2, Funny)
New niche? (Score:2, Funny)
This fly is down, anyway -- Slashswatted! (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like we swatted that fly.
The guy posted his phone number for us?? (Score:2, Funny)
Hehe. I'm imagining people calling him and going "First Post!" and then hanging up.
Look before you step!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, you just stepped on my webserver.
Oh shit, sorry...
Hey, the music stopped?
Oh shit, sorry...
What next... (Score:1, Funny)