Editing Talk:1084: Server Problem

It reminded me of the [http://articles.cnn.com/2012-04-13/tech/tech_web_apple-mac-virus-fix_1_mac-users-malware-mac-os?_s=PM:TECH Flashback Virus] that happened on Macs --[[User:Toddr|Toddr]] ([[User talk:Toddr|talk]]) 21:41, 9 August 2012‎ (UTC)

;WooWoo Science from La-La Land

I love this paragraph:
"Proponents of the singularity typically state that an "intelligence explosion",where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human."

"OK team, you can stop now, we are much more intelligent than they are"
"Don't we need to keep learning"
"Nah!" {{unsigned ip| 86.16.130.17|12:59, 16 August 2012‎ (UTC)}}

:Whence comes the quote (and the follow-up commentary)? Attribution requested.  Posted by an IP-address contributor; if you'd like to see this retained, please follow up with sources, explanation, and signature... otherwise, I think the content is just tangential enough to be removed.  -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 14:42, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
::I don't know what the section heading is referring to, but I'm pretty sure the quote is from {{w|Technological singularity|wikipedia}} ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technological_singularity&diff=next&oldid=501171200 diff]). [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 15:16, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

:I believe the assumption is that they will hit some sort of fundamental physical limit on intelligence (At the extreme long-term end, perhaps latency due to the finite speed of light) and stop, rather than simply grow tired of advancing and focus attention elsewhere. [[User:Thirgfloorgreg|Thirgfloorgreg]] ([[User talk:Thirgfloorgreg|talk]]) 23:02, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

I think there are two ways of interpreting it. The most likely is that Megan's "What did you do!?" is a cry of frustration and amazement that Cueball has managed to *so* break the server. First, how on earth did Cueball's $PATH get changed *at all* so that executing "ls" in the shell ran anything but the usual /bin/ls? Second, how did it end up pointing to that ls.jar? And third, what the heck did Cueball do to end up with that ls.jar being installed there anyway!? Then her "You should shut down..." comment should be interpreted as being preceded with the phrase "You are so clearly not qualified to use a computer that ...". On the other hand, she may be expressing awe and amazement at his ability to interact with his system in such a bizarre way. And then her "You should shut down ..." comment should be preceded with the phrase, "You are clearly so at one with computing machinery that ..."  TK 2012-08-17

:alias ls='sudo java usr/share/Adobe/doc/example/android_vm/root/sbin/ls.jar' [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 23:35, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

or you could edit $PATH and do a soft link from the first member of PATH/ls to /usr/share/Adobe/doc/example/android_vm/root/sbin/ls.jar, anyway if i was Megan i wouldn't give up just yet, i still have /bin/ls and dir in my disposal... (and always check the environment variables... never assume the user's environment is clean.. it's just most likely that $PATH got screwed up (happened a bit too often for my liking in my previous company.. some people just love to use the command "set PATH=/myprog" instead of set PATH=${PATH}:/myprog ) and all you had to do is to reset the variable and we are done :) (but ya.. Megan's reaction is also my reaction.. it's fun to see people helpless and think that they have royally screwed up their system when you swoop in like a super hero to miraculously repair their system) [[Special:Contributions/118.101.220.167|118.101.220.167]] 09:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Considering Cueball's response, which suggests he is completely unaware of the unlikeliness of the error message, we can assume that the latter is not the case. Cueball totally fails to miss the point by suggesting a simple solution while not realizing how messed up his system would need to be to not even be able to operate the ls command. --[[Special:Contributions/88.75.181.101|88.75.181.101]] 02:45, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Cueball has somehow messed up his path so that 'ls' now points to ls.jar, which executes the command on an external device (presumably an Android device). {{unsigned ip|134.134.139.72|18:15, 28 August 2012 (UTC)‎}}

Cueball's last line is a reference to an error message from the 8-bit era that went something like "Device not ready" or "device busy, try again later" which led some people to interpret it (literally) that they should try again later, when it really meant "the drive can't read the floppy disc that's in it". [[Special:Contributions/75.103.23.206|75.103.23.206]] 20:39, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

:"Device not ready" and "Device busy, try again later" messages are usually emited when the driver tries to communicate with device and doesn't get expected response in some defined time. If there would be no timeout for its actions, the computer would freeze. Sometimes (especially in case of old devices), the choosen timeout is too short and trying later actually WILL solve the problem - for example, if you insert CD in optical drive and immediately try to access it, you may get timeout because it takes the drive some time to determine what type of medium was inserted and read TOC. More often, though, the "not ready" is actually caused by persistent problem which will not solve itself - for example again with CD, the CD may be unreadable. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 11:44, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Why Ray Kurzweil would be annoyed by 'Cybersingularity' ? [[User:Osias|Osias]] ([[User talk:Osias|talk]]) 01:03, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

I agree - the explanation on Ray is not good enough. I have amended it a bit by putting in four relevant links to Wikipedia in the last phrase - but I cannot explain the title text, and has just assigned the explanation to be incomplete. [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:13, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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-It should be noted that some android apps are written in Kotlin and not Java. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.224|108.162.215.224]] 16:06, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
 It reminded me of the [http://articles.cnn.com/2012-04-13/tech/tech_web_apple-mac-virus-fix_1_mac-users-malware-mac-os?_s=PM:TECH Flashback Virus] that happened on Macs --[[User:Toddr|Toddr]] ([[User talk:Toddr|talk]]) 21:41, 9 August 2012‎ (UTC)
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 I agree - the explanation on Ray is not good enough. I have amended it a bit by putting in four relevant links to Wikipedia in the last phrase - but I cannot explain the title text, and has just assigned the explanation to be incomplete. [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:13, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
-If Megan actually knows whats going on, wouldn't she run "PATH="/usr/share/Adobe/doc/example/android_vm/root/sbin:$PATH"? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.212|173.245.54.212]] 16:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
-Just wonder if part of the joke is "is ajar" - cars often complain about a door being ajar and will not function until closed.--- {{unsigned ip|173.245.56.133}}
-Java executables DO end in .jar on linux
-[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.90|162.158.255.90]] 18:50, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
-I think the explanation should touch on what it means for a device to be busy and whether or not that makes sense for a magical Java archive core Linux system binary for (chrooted?) Android. Because there's a lot going on in that line, it's important to touch on it all. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.226|172.68.141.226]] 07:03, 12 December 2018 (UTC)