morbiuswilters:

bstorer:

dlikhten:

If you wana get fancy-shmancy you can use vim. And hey vim works on ANY operating system.

Some might question whether it works at all.

An emacs lover, eh?  Treason! 

bstorer:

morbiuswilters:

dlikhten:

If you REALLY can't be bothered with openining text editors you can use grep, which is on most opereating systems, also there is a port of it to windows.

You can't edit with grep, n00b.  You need sed. 

Neither one of them does Random Video!

The disturbing part of that surreal conversation is that it has already happened several times in the original thread, and Spectate wasn't kidding.  Soon each of Spectate's threads will recursively replicate themselves until they reach critical mass and the entire Internet consists of nothing but screen reshoots, ads for cheaply made "Pot Relate" T-shirts and Tabacco Leaf Flyer videos.

bstorer:

morbiuswilters:

dlikhten:

If you REALLY can't be bothered with openining text editors you can use grep, which is on most opereating systems, also there is a port of it to windows.

You can't edit with grep, n00b.  You need sed. 

Neither one of them does Random Video!

mplayer $(find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | sed -n "$(($RANDOM * $( find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | wc -l ) / 32768)){p;q;}" -)

morbiuswilters:

mplayer $(find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | sed -n "$(($RANDOM * $( find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | wc -l ) / 32768)){p;q;}" -)

AbbydonKrafts:

morbiuswilters:

mplayer $(find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | sed -n "$(($RANDOM * $( find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | wc -l ) / 32768)){p;q;}" -)

Good God! O_O

CodeSimian:

Some of us are here to learn.

Tachyon:

Integrate that thing with emacs and youve got SSDS, on UNIX

I'm rather surprised that there isn't already an M-x play-video command. It does look like someone built a video editor on emacs though: http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html  It probably supports slow-motion stuff. I don't know about random though.

emacs is a mini-os all in itself. Dude there is no problem with making a plugin for vim/emacs to use mplayer and have it portable to any os. Then we can have SSDS in emacs lisp... because its in lisp it would be easy for us to add random features like: After searching you can select a line then hit hhkloooo and you will play a sound byte of a car crashing into a cow while the how was actually trying to eat some leaves of a bush, then mod the text by 256 and have a Text to speach say the number it adds to. See its simple, you hit a few keys and you can let your mind aggregate all the data.

Edit: I realize that paragraph has no direction, bad grammar, and w/e else... im in "i don't want to do work" mode so leave me be(er)!

morbiuswilters:

mplayer -vo aa $(find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | sed -n "$(($RANDOM * $( find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | wc -l ) / 32768)){p;q;}" -)

This is a console app after all

Pff, doesn't Swampy realise that White Crow is a plant? Also, all of Whitecourt is behind the ENTIRE CONSPIRACY!

(Hi, I've been reading both this thread and the original SSDS thread for 3 weeks now. I have the compelling urge to screenprint JAM IT! onto a t-shirt.) 

HannahRochelle:

I have the compelling urge to screenprint JAM IT! onto a t-shirt.

That is an excellent idea. I'll do that, and post pictures that I've developed, filmed with a camcorder then screencaptured.

Because no one uses regular digital cameras.. They are so passe. 

morbiuswilters:

bstorer:

morbiuswilters:

dlikhten:

If you REALLY can't be bothered with openining text editors you can use grep, which is on most opereating systems, also there is a port of it to windows.

You can't edit with grep, n00b.  You need sed. 

Neither one of them does Random Video!

mplayer $(find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | sed -n "$(($RANDOM * $( find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | wc -l ) / 32768)){p;q;}" -)

Man, I have been gone too long because of a semester project (I know, TRWTF is that I didn't drop out after 9th grade).  MorbiusWilters... I officially crown you the Shell Script King.  You used a gui app (mplayer), a file searcher (find), a regular expression program (grep), an editor (sed), with environment variables and command-line math... did I miss anything?

EDIT: Of course, I missed the use of Piping.  You know... this command could use some output and input redirection... maybe even a 'tee' program for good measure? 

Also, what the heck is up with the Tag Exceptions?!

WeatherGod:

MorbiusWilters... I officially crown you the Shell Script King.  You used a gui app (mplayer), a file searcher (find), a regular expression program (grep), an editor (sed), with environment variables and command-line math... did I miss anything?

*takes a bow*  I usually avoid shell constructs that complicated, but in honor of Random Video I was willing to bend the rules.  Also note that I could have used a variable and saved the result of the find | grep so it didn't have to execute twice, but I asked myself "What Would SpectateSwamp Do?" and ended up with this.

WeatherGod:

Also, what the heck is up with the Tag Exceptions?!

We have discovered that every tag entered into the forum is output in a hidden input field on every thread page when you are logged in.  We have since constructed some Greasemonkey/Opera scripts that autogenerate TagExceptions (AbbydonKrafts has been throwing them for some time) with random memory addresses.  The goal is to bloat the page massively for fun and/or profit.  My script also adds the post # into the tag after the post is submitted, it shows up as the "line number" of the exception.  So far we have 324 unique TagEx tags totaling 13kbytes that are loaded on every page (out of about 163kbytes of total tags).  More info (and the scripts) available here.   The conversation (and GM/Opera code) spans throughout the entire thread and there's a bunch of other fun forum exploits in there.

morbiuswilters:

The goal is to bloat the page massively for fun and/or profit.

morbiuswilters:

WeatherGod:

MorbiusWilters... I officially crown you the Shell Script King.  You used a gui app (mplayer), a file searcher (find), a regular expression program (grep), an editor (sed), with environment variables and command-line math... did I miss anything?

*takes a bow*  I usually avoid shell constructs that complicated, but in honor of Random Video I was willing to bend the rules.  Also note that I could have used a variable and saved the result of the find | grep so it didn't have to execute twice, but I asked myself "What Would SpectateSwamp Do?" and ended up with this.

WWSSD? 

 

WeatherGod:

Also, what the heck is up with the Tag Exceptions?!

We have discovered that every tag entered into the forum is output in a hidden input field on every thread page when you are logged in.  We have since constructed some Greasemonkey/Opera scripts that autogenerate TagExceptions (AbbydonKrafts has been throwing them for some time) with random memory addresses.  The goal is to bloat the page massively for fun and/or profit.  My script also adds the post # into the tag after the post is submitted, it shows up as the "line number" of the exception.  So far we have 324 unique TagEx tags totaling 13kbytes that are loaded on every page (out of about 163kbytes of total tags).  More info (and the scripts) available here.   The conversation (and GM/Opera code) spans throughout the entire thread and there's a bunch of other fun forum exploits in there.

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Holy...!  That is just messed up! 

WeatherGod:

Holy...!  That is just messed up!

AbbydonKrafts:

WeatherGod:

Holy...!  That is just messed up!

Yeah.. that's what we thought. But, then we decided to have fun with it. I feel sorry for those in less fortunate areas and have to deal with < 1Mbps connections. *eg*

bstorer:

Give us enough time and you'll have to start feeling sorry for everyone.

AbbydonKrafts:

bstorer:

Give us enough time and you'll have to start feeling sorry for everyone.

True enough.

bstorer:

Give us enough time and you'll have to start feeling sorry for everyone.

I'm on 20mbps cable and the site is still laggy for me at times, although that may be the server and not the amount of data traveling over the network.  At work we have a T1 for the whole office (super lame) and most pages take 5-10 seconds to load.  I figure it's easy enough for Alex to clear out the tags if it becomes a real problem and it's a good way to let people know about the problems of CS while having some fun and not really hurting anyone.  When I found out a few days ago you can embed arbitrary JS and Flash into posts I didn't post t3h codez because that could be used to cause real damage (NULL pointer dereferencing in Flash virtual machine anyone?)

bstorer:

This will be an interesting test: which will crack first: our patience while waiting for the pages to load, or Alex's bandwidth?

morbiuswilters:

I'm on 20mbps cable and the site is still laggy for me at times

morbiuswilters:

At work we have a T1 for the whole office (super lame) and most pages take 5-10 seconds to load.

morbiuswilters:

When I found out a few days ago you can embed arbitrary JS and Flash into posts I didn't post t3h codez

AbbydonKrafts:

bstorer:

This will be an interesting test: which will crack first: our patience while waiting for the pages to load, or Alex's bandwidth?

Probably neither. Alex will most likely purge the tags if it gets to that point.