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The Internet Will End in 30 Years!

9 points by jmorin007 19y ago

Xichekolas 19y ago
So the Unix Epoch ends in 2038... Is that the year Linux will finally be ready for the desktop (for the 34th time)? Seriously though, what do you think computing will be like in 30 years? Hard for me to imagine, considering what I have experienced in the last 12 or so. Hopefully we won't run out of things to do by then.
- hernan7 19y ago
  > what do you think computing will be like in 30 years? Well I hope by then time_t will be 64-bit.
  - Tuna-Fish 19y ago
    It sure is on my machine. (edit) just had to make sure. tuna@tunamasiina:~$ echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\n#include <time.h>\nmain(){printf(\"%d\\\n\",sizeof(time_t));}" |gcc -x c - &&./a.out 8
    - BrandonM 19y ago
      I was going to try to figure out how to turn this into an even-cleverer one-liner which did not create any files at all, using something like: $ echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\n#include <time.h>\nmain(){printf(\"%d\\\n\",sizeof(time_t));}" |gcc -x c -o >('some command which runs a file received on standard input') - Unfortunately, after about 20 minutes of searching, I've found no Unix utility like that. That seems somewhat strange since it is possible to utilize pipes in so many ways. Am I missing something? Oh, by the way, I got 8 as well.
      - Tuna-Fish 19y ago
        Yes. There is an obvious lack for a program that takes an elf binary in it's input and runs it. I've spent a while trying to find it too.
        BrandonM 19y ago
        It shouldn't even need to be an elf binary. It should be able to be any file which could serve as a command in unix, which would include things like she-bang-interpreted executables and alternative binary formats recognized by your kernel. Shouldn't there be some kind of hook into whatever e.g. bash uses? It doesn't seem like such a utility should be hard to write.
  - Xichekolas 19y ago
    Then what will we do in 584 billion years? We obviously need a more robust solution.
wmf 19y ago
Epoch fail.
BrandonM 19y ago
Honestly, I was hoping to come in here and see a "this is not reddit" comment. Apparently, mine will have that dubious distinction.
noonespecial 19y ago
Hey, I thought the internet was already wiped out on Jan,1 2000! That Van Impe guy said so! Every once in a while its good to go back in the grand internet archive and surf like its 1999. It grants mighty perspective to this type of nonsense.

9 points by jmorin007 19y ago

So the Unix Epoch ends in 2038... Is that the year Linux will finally be ready for the desktop (for the 34th time)? Seriously though, what do you think computing will be like in 30 years? Hard for me to imagine, considering what I have experienced in the last 12 or so. Hopefully we won't run out of things to do by then.

hernan7 19y ago
> what do you think computing will be like in 30 years? Well I hope by then time_t will be 64-bit.
- Tuna-Fish 19y ago
  It sure is on my machine. (edit) just had to make sure. tuna@tunamasiina:~$ echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\n#include <time.h>\nmain(){printf(\"%d\\\n\",sizeof(time_t));}" |gcc -x c - &&./a.out 8
  - BrandonM 19y ago
    I was going to try to figure out how to turn this into an even-cleverer one-liner which did not create any files at all, using something like: $ echo -e "#include <stdio.h>\n#include <time.h>\nmain(){printf(\"%d\\\n\",sizeof(time_t));}" |gcc -x c -o >('some command which runs a file received on standard input') - Unfortunately, after about 20 minutes of searching, I've found no Unix utility like that. That seems somewhat strange since it is possible to utilize pipes in so many ways. Am I missing something? Oh, by the way, I got 8 as well.
    - Tuna-Fish 19y ago
      Yes. There is an obvious lack for a program that takes an elf binary in it's input and runs it. I've spent a while trying to find it too.
      - BrandonM 19y ago
        It shouldn't even need to be an elf binary. It should be able to be any file which could serve as a command in unix, which would include things like she-bang-interpreted executables and alternative binary formats recognized by your kernel. Shouldn't there be some kind of hook into whatever e.g. bash uses? It doesn't seem like such a utility should be hard to write.
- Xichekolas 19y ago
  Then what will we do in 584 billion years? We obviously need a more robust solution.

wmf 19y ago

Epoch fail.

BrandonM 19y ago

Honestly, I was hoping to come in here and see a "this is not reddit" comment. Apparently, mine will have that dubious distinction.

noonespecial 19y ago

Hey, I thought the internet was already wiped out on Jan,1 2000! That Van Impe guy said so! Every once in a while its good to go back in the grand internet archive and surf like its 1999. It grants mighty perspective to this type of nonsense.