Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: The Oracle Speaks From: gtd@Ironhills.com (Grumpy the Dwarf) Organization: Axes R Us Lines: 70 X-no-archive: yes Message-ID: Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!bignews.mediaways.net!newsfeed.icl.net!netnews.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news.alt.net!anon.lcs.mit.edu!nym.alias.net!mail2news Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:17569 Found at The Oracle site at: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/oracle/digests/digest1161.html ================================================= 1161-08 The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh, Oracle, most wise, who can run an ELF binary by hand... > > Can you give me a summary and review of the recent O'Reilly book, > "Setting Up A Tolkien Ring Network"? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } The long awaited O'Reilly book, "Setting Up A Tolkien Ring Network" } is the product of many of the Greatest Minds of Middle Earth (ME). } } The text would have been released earlier, but one collaborator is } working at a notoriously slow pace and, well, no one has the heart } to prod him along. } } Below are the many sections and an excerpt from the foreword } for each of those sections. } ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() } } Table of Contents } } 1. Dire Warnings and other Jazz } by Mandos ( The Doomsman of the Valar ) } } Whilst others have gone this way, of no guarantee can I } speak for you. Here within are listed Legal Mumbo Jumbo } absolving us of any doom you bring unto yourself! } } 2. Hardware requirements } by Duirn (Father of the Dwarves) } } Cold sheet steel encases the feverish mind of the box } before you. What contraptions will you need to place where } to make it work? I, the eldest craftsman, student of none } other than Aule the Smith will be your guide through the } dark twisty passages inside. And together we will craft } a thing of beauty. And strength. And vengeance! Baruk } Khazad! Khazad aimenu! } } 3. Which Valar should I evoke? } Gandalf (Most Successful of the Maiar) } } Sit, sit little one. Smoke if that's your pleasure, a } bit of stout if it's not. Ah, it's great to be alive is } it not? But beware. A cold dark empty screen can be fall } you if you stray from the path. But fear not, well, at } least not right now. I am here to guide you. Unless of } course I have to dash off on some errand. So steel yourself. } Let me help you pick a Vala to whom you can look in } such times. } } 4. Installation and Setup } The Ring Makers of Eregion } } A compilation of articles on each step of ring construction } by those acknowledged by all of ME to be -the- masters of } this skill. Not to be missed. This no-nonsense section is } worth the price of the text alone. } NOTE: O'Reilly does not condone nor advocate fabrication } of Rings of Power. } } 5. Known problems } Wormtounge (Former advisor to The House of Theoden) } } A pretty little mess you've decided to delve into here. I } wouldn't have even bothered, there are easier, more, how } to put it, more profitable ways of doing this. I can help } you if you wish. But it's of no never mind to me. } } 6. Questions and comments } Bilbo (noted chronicler of events at Rivendale) } } { Note: this section will contain many fascinating } discussions and rare and precious tidbits of lore. } } ()()()()()()()()()()()()()|-|()()|<()()()()()()()()()()()() } } You owe the Oracle a meal at the Prancing Pony. ###### Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: The Oracle Speaks Date: 22 Apr 2000 00:10:04 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 40 Message-ID: <6u66tbds1v.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: chonsp.franklin.ch 956355011 863 10.0.3.2 (21 Apr 2000 22:10:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2000 22:10:11 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:17571 gtd@Ironhills.com (Grumpy the Dwarf) writes: > > Oh, Oracle, most wise, who can run an ELF binary by hand... Roughly every Linux user does this daily (most of them without even knowing it). This is what this computer says: chonsp:pts:neil:~$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 490 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 850 pts/0 00:00:00 ps chonsp:pts:neil:~$ which bash /bin/bash chonsp:pts:neil:~$ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped chonsp:pts:neil:~$ Anyone logging in gets one of these given to them. Oops, now I have let the secret of Linux out of the bag ... :-) > > Can you give me a summary and review of the recent O'Reilly book, > > "Setting Up A Tolkien Ring Network"? Well I do not know about setting one up. But this is an really old post about how it is to use them: http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Tolkien_Ring_Network (It first has a few Ring jokes before the main text) (and the proof that 4.3BSD Unix not only has daemons, but is actually Mordor) -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Nerd, Geek, Hacker, Unix Guru, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic Use a WIMP (Windows Icons Mouse Pulldowns) interface - or get one with a CLUE (Command Line User Environment)? ###### From: rpresser@NOSPAMimtek.com.invalid (Ross Presser) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: The Oracle Speaks Date: 31 May 2000 20:18:33 GMT Organization: Imtek, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <8F45A7C0Cpt101594@207.211.168.88> References: <6u66tbds1v.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-430.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Xnews/03.04.11 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!enews.sgi.com!pln-w!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews2 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:20539 alt.distinguished.neil@franklin.ch.remove (Neil Franklin).wrote.posted.offered: >> > Oh, Oracle, most wise, who can run an ELF binary by hand... > >Roughly every Linux user does this daily (most of them without even >knowing it). This is what this computer says: > The point is that the Oracle can run an ELF binary *by hand*, meaning, in his head (or at worst, with pencil and paper), without the use of a computer. -- Ross Presser * ross_presser@imtek.com '"Stuck" is not a state of being unable to solve a puzzle. "Stuck" is a state of *believing* that you are unable to solve a puzzle.' - Andrew "Zarf" Plotkin, waxing philosophical again