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...)
Re:Hmm, an idea... (Score:5, Informative)
"Spanish Fly (pulverized blister-beetles) contains cantharides, which can cause physical arousal of a sort, by irritating the urinary tract when ingested and excreted. But dig this: it was used in the mid-19th century to treat pleurisy. Applied to the skin, it created blisters 12 by 6 inches in size, which (it was erroneously thought) beneficially drew liquid away from the lungs. You want that *inside* your ureter?
In Victorian England there were several cases of manslaughter or malicious poisoning by means of Spanish Fly. In one, Regina v. Hennah, 1877, in which the victim didn't die, the defendant was acquitted because no intent to harm was proved.
In more recent times, and more legitimately, the active ingredient in Spanish Fly was used medicinally to dissolve external warts.
Sources: (1) P.V.Taberner, "Aphrodisiacs: the science and the myth" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985). We don't need no stinkin' ISBNumber; look it up in your library catalog or Books in Print. (2) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., source of last resort, s.vv. "aphrodisiac" and "blister beetle". "
Hope you didn't drink it as a normal beverage by the way, even if you believe in this shit you better had it mixed with something else otherwise you are one lonely geek... even your left and right hand would have nothing to do...
Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Re:Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
This just in ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2)
You knew this one was coming! (Score:5, Funny)
bugs have your webserver!
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waiter! (Score:5, Funny)
This fly is down, anyway -- Slashswatted! (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like we swatted that fly.
Evil (Score:5, Funny)
hehee :) (Score:2, 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.
Technically pointless (Score:5, Insightful)
Elegant nevertheless (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Technically pointless (Score:5, Informative)
That has already been done [d116.com].
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:Technically pointless (Score:3, Insightful)
On the subject, I find it hilarious (as in stupid) that several hundred years in the future, with such advanced technology, nobody thinks to spring for a $5 attenuation control.
here: (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Technically pointless (Score:3, Insightful)
Putting it on a dead fly is a guaranteed way to find out if the server can handle
woops (Score:5, Funny)
"Why do I get a 404 on the project's page? Bob?"
Re:woops (Score:5, Funny)
Buzz Off!
FlyServe 1.01
Slashdot... the giant flyswatter (Score:4, Funny)
Re:woops (Score:5, Funny)
hehe (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, couldn't resist
In Soviet Russia, our bugs have programs
Sorry again
Seeking cheap karma... (Score:4, Funny)
Hehee..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Seeking cheap karma... (Score:2)
They are dead. They don't swarm anymore.
<tongue in cheek>Besides, it makes sense to use a dead fly, but putting a server in a live fly, why, thats just plain silly.</tongue in cheek>
This raises an interesting possibility! (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdotted? (Score:4, Funny)
Fly Server Admin: Damn you slashdot! Damn you! You killed my baby!
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:3, Informative)
"Installation Date: June 1 to September 3rd, 2001"
That means that this art exhibit was displayed between the above dates. It was taken down more than a year ago. So the IP displayed will not respond.
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:2)
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:3, Insightful)
This must be your first post. Welcome! It looks like you are new to
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
Re:Slashdotted? (Score:3, Funny)
PETA (Score:5, Funny)
1. Killing poor flies..
2. Implanting Chips in dead flies..
Re:PETA (Score:3, 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:PETA (Score:3, Funny)
I've got no good jokes for this story... (Score:2)
Of course it is 5:30 in the morning and I haven't slept in two days.
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...
Re:I've got no good jokes for this story... (Score:2)
Best I could come up with was...
Now with 802.11a - WiFly.
I suppose (Score:5, 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.
Gotta love art-speak... (Score:5, Informative)
The webserver (1K of space) shows a simple page, and the visitor of the page can turn the LED on/off.
Further, the 'surgery' on the fly had to be carried out within 24 hours after its death, or it would have become too brittle, though the author noted that it's possible to rejoin broken off legs &c. with some glue. Provided you can find the bodypart in question
The reason for this project? It's art, you insensitive clod!
Re:Gotta love art-bullcrap... (Score:3, Interesting)
Could it be that they've got a midget in the pedestal playing the chess moves, err, another computer doing the web page and using the Fairchild chip as an LED controller?
Re:Gotta love art-bullcrap... (Score:5, Interesting)
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Hello? RTFA? (Score:5, Informative)
If you read the article, the first thing that jumps out is the date: June 1 to September 3, 2001. In fact, if you'll notice, the IP address they refer to (http://139.142.46.159) is long gone.
Reading further, it is revealed that this was a museum exhibit at the Mendel Art Gallery in Canada in 2001. The link cited shows the proposal they sent to the museum, which is why it reads rather oddly ("This will ideally allow for gallery staff to replace the fly.") The museum accepted the proposal, as can be seen here [mendel.ca], at the museum's website.
Please, editors, do your homework before posting these stories. It's an interesting story, but quite dated.
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.
But does it... (Score:2, Interesting)
I'll make my computer watch time fly
damn (Score:5, Funny)
Followed shortly by... (Score:2, Funny)
139.142.46.159 [139.142.46.159]
/. death (Score:5, Funny)
Re:/. death (Score:2)
Shhh! I think I hear it saying something... (Score:5, Funny)
help meeeee... heellp meeeee...
Multitasking on the fly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Multitasking on the fly (Score:2)
(wait for it...)
Hit any fly to continue
A first .. (Score:2)
How about implementing it in a life fly... (Score:2)
Isn't it Fruit flies that live a day ? (Score:2)
Yeah but..... (Score:2)
Re:Yeah but..... (Score:2)
what if an old lady swallows it?
Obviously she'd have to go down on slashdot, so it'll catch the webserver, er, fly.
Whats next (Score:2)
The fly has to then be seen buzzing around in that glass box, not stuck on a stick
real purposes? (Score:2)
sorry I find no other reason why you'd do this kind of things.
Embedded ID chips (Score:2)
Wouldn't it be cool (Score:2)
if they could find a way to keep the fly alive and attach a wireless webcam to it. It would give a hole new meaning to "bug."
About Garnet Hertz (Score:3, Informative)
This is what happens when you read too much Gibson. The idea that a fly corpse with a Webserver chip and two LED's stuck in it is a "cybernetic being in a state of attempted reanimation" is ludicrous, since the system would behave exactly the same without the fly corpse. It ain't exactly Deadly Friend
It's worth noting that among this artist's other works are screenshots of his cluttered Mac desktop [conceptlab.com], used as a "visual medium" for artistic expression.
But how... (Score:5, 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).
So are they saying (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine... (Score:2)
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
you may think it's funny now (Score:2)
Actually it was supposed to be a live fly (Score:2)
It's probably a good thing though, live flies tend to keep dropping their 'tokens', which would not only offend patrons, but upset network admins.
What I'd give to be a fly on the wall for that exhibit.
-Adam
Instead of worrying about Slammer... (Score:2, Funny)
Replacing the fly... (Score:2)
What happens when ... (Score:5, Funny)
Are we sure it's not a hoax? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.chipdocs.com/pndecoder/datasheets/FAIR/ ACE1101VMT8.html [chipdocs.com]
It describes the chip as an arithmetic controller engine, but the datasheet requires paid registration. Could this chip actually serve web pages?
I confess I don't know enough to judge.
Actually not too impressive (Score:4, Insightful)
So, to me, this particular instance of the same thing from 1999 [slashdot.org] is basically a neat soldering job but nothing technically innovative in terms of embedded connectivity. But as art, it's pretty cool. ;)
It uses the ACE1101 (Score:4, Interesting)
For once... (Score:5, 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."
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)
Cashdot Effect (Score:4, Informative)
"Thank You Slashdot!
(you just made me $0.05 richer)
RCTOYS.COM
Close Window
4423 x $0.05 = my money"
Rather than bitch about being slashdotted, the guy has style and, put up a banner to a cool geek toy site and let us pay for slashdotting him. That's so much cooler than complaining about it. Kudos.
Look before you step!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, you just stepped on my webserver.
Oh shit, sorry...
Hey, the music stopped?
Oh shit, sorry...
Re:Not very user friendly (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:funny... (Score:5, Insightful)
That said, from an art standpoint it's interesting. From a science/tech standpoint it's a yawn.
Re:funny... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:wtf? (Score:2)
Re:had to do it (Score:2)
In Soviet Russia, fly embeds chip in YOU.
Re:Wait (Score:2)
The world has been waiting for innovations like these... too bad there's animal cruelty involved
In the grand scheme of things, dead flies are actually considered "spices", and not potential food. Therefore, there's no animal cruelty involved.
Now, if it were embedded in a live mouse...what would it taste like?
Re:wonder if it will catch fire? (Score:2)
Re:Argh! (Score:3, Funny)
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