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Huge, monolithic, solid, brown, public, edible, unexplained, in a park, in winter, topped with snow.
Chocolate Bar/Reno
http://www.downtown...s_chocolate_bar.asp
Here's an example of a business who ran with the idea from a different angle. [jurist, Oct 14 2008]
here's one...
http://www.sojourn-...olate_Bar.sized.jpg
[xandram, Oct 14 2008]
30 cubits in meters
http://www.google.c...+in+meters&aq=f&oq=
[Voice, Oct 14 2008]
50 cubits in meters
http://www.google.c...+meters&btnG=Search
[Voice, Oct 14 2008]
The Ice Hotel
http://www.icehotel.com/
For [Flyingtoaster], this is one of the famous ones from Sweden. [Jinbish, Oct 15 2008]
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Midnight, and still 27% celcius with 75% humidity? |
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1:09 am, 21C, 78%. Not good for chocolate... not even summer yet. |
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Baking in between reboots of a webserver that won't play the game and needs to be working before 7am this morning. |
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Heh, heh, I was close. Rebooting webservers in the wee hours is furtile, and futile, ground. Good luck... |
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They call them the wee hours because you need to get rid of the cups of coffee you drank to stay awake, I think. |
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//topped with snow//
With refrigeration, you can top it with ice cream. In Summer. |
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Refrigerate a whole park? I'll wait for winter, somewhere other than here. |
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You cunt? You can, and you will. |
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If you guys are having anything like the weather here, those servers are running hot. Turn off the AC, let them try and reboot, followed by crash. Then turn on the AC. They will think you buried them in the Oksinbreen |
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Instead of the 2001:A Space Odyssey monolith that this idea proposes, my mind ran with the idea of a chocolate counterpart to to the Swedish and Canadian Ice Bars...a drinking establishment where all the surfaces and drink containers are made from variously colored and flavored chocolates. |
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there are Canadian "ice bars" ?... on purpose ? |
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Most notably outside of Quebec City at the Ice Hotel-Quebec. There's also one now in Dubai, I understand. And they seem to crop up in lots of other places seasonally. But those three are probably the most renowned. |
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Placing it in the vicinity of zoos will inspire monkeys to smash one another over the head with found toblerones. |
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"My God ..... it's full of ... hazlenuts !" |
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ub, - have you examined your logs? The
apache error log, I mean. |
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Yeah, it's a malfunctioning hard drive as far as I can tell. It's due for a drive transplant today. |
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Is today arcane measurement day? |
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Got it working... installed new HDD... still no luck until I found conflicting IP & MAC addressing settings between the internet router, the SnapGear firewall router and the device itself. FUCKING COMPUTERS! |
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How do you get a conflicting MAC? |
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The IP address is tied to the MAC address in the router permissions table. We had a static IP address in the table assigned to the machine's MAC address and a dynamic IP address had been assigned to the same machine elsewhere. One MAC address, two IP addresses = one very confused Linux server. |
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I also got confused between the different MAC addresses showing up in an ifconfig between eth0 (which was off the top of the screen) and eth1. That didn't help. |
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So it's a big piece of witty
chocolate and nothing more? |
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You were actually examining the log
files,
though, weren't you? E.g
/var/log/messages
(might be different on yours, that's
where
mine is on Gentoo), the various specific
log files and error log files, and of
course dmesg which will
show device startup problems
(and dmesg should be the same on any
linux). That's really the only effective
way
to get straight to a problem's source,
rather than guessing or playing
detective. |
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No, I wasn't looking at the log files as they really aren't of that much interest to me. It's a linux box and that's something I refuse to learn (I have enough to do in my life without learning backend B&W coding text shit, too). There are other people who do that and they're welcome to it. They are cheap to keep and they have the time to fuck about with puzzles that don't interest me, I'm afraid. |
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If the geeks who write code weren't so interested in maintaining private fiefdoms of arcana in which they feel superior to at least someone on the planet then that stuff would be in a GUI interface and in a language intelligible to the public. That it isn't is a measure of the insecurity of the coding community as a whole. It's not unlike the false air of mystery maintained by dimwitted tradesmen the world over, in their specialist field of gruntwork and shit-shovelling. |
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I don't fix computers, as a rule. I merely curse them when they fall short of my requirements of them. |
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//maintaining private fiefdoms of arcana// |
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That's a wee bit harsh. It may be true in a large sector, but a lot of my progress in all things Linux has been because of those willing to unravel the 'arcana'. |
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From what I have garnered is that GUIs are usually deemed redundant by those doing the coding/operating. "Making it easy" isn't always synonymous with producing a GUI. |
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That said, I feel your pain. I've spent countless weeks struggling with such difficulties in the past - particularly when end results have been important, not halfway house solutions. (No-one appreciates that you've trawled through Linux fora and tried every command that has been within shooting distance). |
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Yes, it's a bar of chocolate dark, as big as an ark, sitting in a park. |
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//It's not unlike the false air of mystery maintained by dimwitted tradesmen the world over, in their specialist field of gruntwork and shit-shovelling. // |
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You know, I would have thought you above a comment like that. |
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So would I, until I realised it's done by mechanics, electricians, gardeners, plumbers, doctors, economists, lawyers, accountants, chefs... it's endemic in our many societies, both as a form of self-gratification and to maintain a measure of income security. |
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//dmesg// sp: dsmeg.
At least it should be! |
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wow, this got really off topic. Anyway, back to giant chocolate. It would be great as long as dogs weren't allowed in the park (risk of peeing on it). In summer it would become the world's biggest ant hill. |
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//as long as dogs weren't allowed//
Risk of stepping in objects huge, monolithic, solid, brown, in a park. |
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I'm sure it would attract dogs, ants, reporters and other kinds of vermin. That's why I'd put it there. |
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How deep must the weathering effect on such a chocolate slab be, before its malted shell reaches equilibrium with nature's assailing elements? |
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so it's chocolate, but big.. Bone. |
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I like this because it reminds me of that scene in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory with the huge chocolate bar. I regret that I have only one bun to give. |
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I'd love to sit and watch people's reaction to this. If it was an ark (same size) it would attract every JC-worshippin' freak on the planet. A bar of chocolate 450ft x 75ft x 45ft? Trippy. |
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Something like 70,000 metric tonnes of chocolate. Too much. You will be sick. |
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About 60,000 tonne, assuming an SG of 1.4 for chocolate. Does anyone know the specific gravity of chocolate? |
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We are prepared to take that risk in the interests of Science, and getting to eat a huge bar of chocolate. |
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// specific gravity of chocolate // |
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This has never been experimentally determined, as the reference samples keep going missing .... |
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