Linux Baby Rocker

Posted by John Farrier in Video Clips on August 26, 2009 at 6:52 am



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YouTube user macjonesnz programmed his CD-ROM tray to repeatedly open and close. Then he tied a string between the tray and his child’s car seat. Result: sleeping baby.

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19 comments to "Linux Baby Rocker"

  1. Tim Giachetti
    August 26th, 2009 at 6:56 am

    Nice find!

    I'm a Linux freak.

    Only draw back? When the kid grows to an adult and hits the tray open/closed button at work and goes into narcoleptic deep sleep. LOL

  2. Jimbo
    August 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am

    Linux/Unix is so antiquated and should have died with Windows NT. While the rest of the world moved on, Linux stayed the same. It's like working with DOS or on a commodore 64. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the commodore 64 and DOS systems, technology advanced.

    The Graphic User Interface is so much faster to work with. Now I live in a 3D graphic world and loving every minute of it.

    People who love Linux/Unix are a slave to it because they went to college to learn it. Along with those who studied Cobalt. Of course they don't want to tell the truth about being out of date, but that is the only way to keep their jobs.

    Grow up! You can't live in the late 80's early 90's forever!

  3. Tim Giachetti
    August 26th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Jimbo? What century do you live in?

    Ever heard of Ubuntu, Redhat, or KDE4?

    Gone are the days of syntax input, unless you want to, that is.

    Stop trolling and download a live disk of Ubuntu. No need to install it as it will run right from the disk.

  4. Tim Giachetti
    August 26th, 2009 at 8:39 am

    And BTW, almost every server that provides you with your "internet", are linux based.

    And, a bigger plus. It's free. No fees to buy, or try, and every program available for it is free as well.

  5. Ajan
    August 26th, 2009 at 10:20 am

    That was way too cool!! Now, I'm gonna try it on another application.. :D

  6. Johnny Cat
    August 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am

    That's a cute baby, right there.

  7. Spaceboss
    August 26th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    it's called "COBOL," jim. COBOL.

  8. Woogie
    August 26th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Babies are not supposed to be in car seats unless actually traveling as it restricts their breathing, and babies have actually died from suffocation in car seats while being left to sleep.

    Not that anyone will listen to a word I've just written.

  9. argon
    August 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Congrats Woogie,

    just destroyed a very cute moment of geekiness =/

  10. Video Game Dork
    August 26th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Yeah, you don't need linux to make a program to open and close your cd drive.

    In any case, won't that wear out the drive's interal bits much more quickly? (the drive-opening pieces, in any case).

  11. Verily
    August 26th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    Woogie, if you didn't notice the baby is not actually strapped into the seat. No harm done at all here.

  12. Dr Dan
    August 26th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Babies should not be kept in car seats when not in the car!
    http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-0 160v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=car+seat+oxyge n&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

  13. harold
    August 26th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    How's it go?

    Laziness is the mother of invention?

    Something like that.....

  14. ted
    August 27th, 2009 at 6:01 am

    Or you could just look after your child instead of delegating the responsibility to a machine.

  15. mishelley
    August 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    The really neat part? That a guy who knew Linux could actually get close enough to a woman to impregnate her!

    bwhahahahaha

  16. mik
    August 27th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Im with Jimbo, long gone are the days of Cobalt, or Visual Basac, or Internat, go windows!

  17. JamesM
    August 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    "Jimbo
    August 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am
    Linux/Unix is so antiquated and should have died with Windows NT. While the rest of the world moved on, Linux stayed the same. It’s like working with DOS or on a commodore 64. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the commodore 64 and DOS systems, technology advanced."

    Obvious troll is obvious, but I'll bite anyway.

    Linux was the first OS to support 64bit CPUs.

    Linux was the first OS to support GPU acceleration of Windowing effects. (Compiz Fusion, yay!)

    Linux was the first OS to have a fully working USB3.0 driver.

    17% of Smartphones sold worldwide in 2006 had Linux on them. And this was BEFORE Android was available.

    Linux is from the same background (POSIX compliant OSes) that gave birth to BSD. You know? What OSX is now based on? BSD and Linux projects are often ported to the other. WinNT also includes BSD code. Oops.

    Microsoft recently dumped the original WinNT kernel. You have to EMULATE WinXP mode in Win7 now... It "requires processor-based virtualization support", So WinNT is effectively dead now, too.

    While I still consider WinNT4 to be my most favourite OS, providing me with exactly what I wanted when I was using it... a plain OS that didn't have any unnecessary extra crap in it that I didn't want... WinNT4 is also horribly out of date, slow and difficult to install compared to ... dun dun-dun! Linuxes like Ubuntu.

    Even WinXP, Vista both have horrible installations compared to Ubuntu. I use WinXP myself, but I wouldn't hesitate to say Ubuntu's installer kicks the crap out of it.

    And that's just the installer. Hardware support is far better, it's far more secure overall, updates come far more frequently and there is an impressive amount of software available to it without having to trust search results and download sites for an EXE that might screw up your system.

    ALL operating systems... Linux, Windows and even MacOS... mainly use windowing actions (buttons, tickboxes, etc) to execute console commands. You just don't see it because it's hidden in the background. For nearly every thing that you do in a GUI, the same action can be done via a command line. In Windows, instead of clicking Start, Turn off Computer, Restart... I can make a batch file script to execute: "shutdown.exe -s" - Which would do the exact same thing by typing out a short command and hitting enter. Since, of course, WinNT/2K/XP may have a different kernel and method of booting than other Win's, it's still a "DOS" compliant OS for all the things it does under the pretty GUI... Under the hood, it's a command line based OS just like Linux. (Recovery Console for WinXP? It's DOS based.)

    WinNT is dead, Linux has evolved and you're a retard. Get used to it.

  18. Hootiee
    August 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Wow!

    Talk about shutting people up! That did it!

  19. Ajan
    August 29th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    LOL!!


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