Feross.org

Nerdcore! Aww yeah!

Last Tuesday, I got to hang out with “the world’s 579th greatest rapper,” MC Frontalot, before and after he performed at a Stanford concert! He is best-known for coining the term nerdcore and basically defining the whole nerdcore hip-hop musical genre. As you can tell by picture above, I dressed appropriately for the occasion.

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This is how my iPhone looked after I shattered the screen. Such a sad sight...

And then I fixed my iPhone.

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I just read an interesting opinion column about technology illiteracy over at TidBITS. The author, Adam Engst, argues that as technology becomes easier to use and hence more transparent, society has lost the ability to converse about technology.

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Try it out! It works on Feross.org! Really…. you should try it out right now!

Remember to add ENTER at the very end!

And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, please get edumacated, courtesy of Wikipedia:

The Konami Code, known in Japan as the Konami Command (コナミコマンド, Konami Komando), is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, although the code also appears in some non-Konami games. The code was first used in the 1986 release of Gradius for the Nintendo Entertainment System but was made famous in North America in the NES version of Contra, for which it was also dubbed the “30 Lives Code”.

Update: The code also works on the iPhone, using gestures. Just replace the final B, A, and Enter keys with taps and it’ll work! AWESOME!

I decided to figure out how many Feross’s I could fit in one URL, with each one serving a different function. Here is my result:

http://feross.feross.org/feross/feross.feross?feross=feross#feross

You found the secret page.

If you remove a single “feross” from the URL, then you fail and don’t get to see the secret stuff hidden at this location!

Every feross serves a different function in the URL.

Can you name all the feross’s?

In order, they are:

• subdomain
• domain name
• TLD – top level domain (technically this one isn’t a feross …yet!)
• folder
• file name
• file extension
• “get” parameter
• “get” value
• URL anchor (or hash)

Ok, back to studying for finals!

EDIT: updated TLD description because it’s .org not .feross. Thanks Daniel!

I witnessed this awesomeness first hand, today.

Today I witnessed history — Unix history, that is. At 3:31:30PM today, the Unix epoch timestamp passed the 1234567890 mark.

So, what exactly does this mean?

Essentially, computer time starts on January 1st, 1970 at midnight. We call this time zero (represented by 64 zeroes in binary) and count up from there. Ever since the beginning of 1970, this little 32-bit integer has been counting upwards (in seconds) to keep track of time in computer systems everywhere. Servers, phones, traffic systems, planes, and many other electronic devices all use Unix time. Unix time can be found everywhere, certainly not just in the Unix operating system.
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