WTF?!?

[maradydd]

If you're not watching the live CodeCon stream, you just missed zooko hack a laptop to pieces with yoctohedron's axe.

Yes, really. It was a little bit hard to tell exactly what happened in the 320x240 window, and the sound was off, but apparently zooko now owes yoctohedron a new axe.

I think this might actually beat out "isolating DNA with common household items" as most surprising CodeCon demo ever. I note also that yoctohedron had a support role in both...

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[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly acquainted with Zooko. At last week's Boulder LUG he announced he was going to destroy a laptop to demonstrate the Tahoe file system.

http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

That he most certainly did.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Whoa ... Extreme hacking !! Literally.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help thinking... Oh I hope it wasn't a mac :-)

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

It was a bit hard to tell -- it wasn't in the spotlight, and the resolution on the stream wasn't that good. But it was very obviously an axe!

[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

The organizer of the conference came running into the room obviously startled and shouted "What the fuck was that?" and the manager of the venue yelled "It was just a Windows box" to which the organizer of the conference responded "Oh. Carry on."

It makes up for the time that Zooko brought his baby instead of his laptop to CodeCon, and his demo was 45 minutes of gcc output...

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

It was just a windows box :-)

Hee hee :-)

zooko the performance artist

[(Anonymous)]

interesting demo with an axe. The axe fails and is not redundant, but the failure mode is a graceful degradation, as the handle may still be used for destruction using the same api. The data was recoverable.

some of the laptop parts escaped the stage. But it's safer than plastic explosive, i guess...

Re: zooko the performance artist

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

the handle may still be used for destruction using the same api

BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Nicely done.

I hope the video is posted later!

[gpshead.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Because I didn't have the stream up at the time.

I hear the first swing missed the laptop and left the axe head embedded in the stage off of the handle. ;)

[kragen.livejournal.com]

So the stream works for you? I wonder why it doesn’t work for me or node. What software are you using?

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

QuickTime 7.6 on OSX 10.4.9.

[mutiny.livejournal.com]

You can't top a presentation that starts out with "Those of you in the first three rows might get wet" and really mean it.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Did I actually say that? Wow. It's like the introduction they give at Sea World.

[mutiny.livejournal.com]

I think you did, and if you didn't, you should have!

[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

I know someone said that; I don't remember who. We're trying to locate that year's recordings and give the entire bundle to archive.org....