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wolfg676
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response 50 of 108:
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Mar 10 18:13 UTC 1998 |
Speakin of toasters, does anyone know anything about Video Toasters and what
will keep them from working?
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mary
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response 51 of 108:
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Mar 10 22:57 UTC 1998 |
Re: #49 What a stitch. She is a hoot.
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magnetic
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response 52 of 108:
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Mar 10 23:24 UTC 1998 |
ref:#51 Hey Mary - I was booked on a flight with flying tigers but canceled
it 'cause it has to be a joke. Tigers dont even have wings..........(hehe)
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omni
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response 53 of 108:
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Mar 11 06:32 UTC 1998 |
Not a clue.
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other
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response 54 of 108:
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Mar 11 06:51 UTC 1998 |
video toasters are the next step in the evolution of the amiga computer.
the species couldn't survive in the computer ecosystem, so it adapted to the
video effects ecosystem. computers have since adapted to superiority even
in this separate ecosystem, so it appears thast video toasters have to placed
on the endangered species list...
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scott
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response 55 of 108:
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Mar 11 12:51 UTC 1998 |
The "flying toasters" screen saver is actually a product of a company other
than Microsoft.
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tao
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response 56 of 108:
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Mar 11 15:31 UTC 1998 |
I'm fond of AfterDark(tm)'s bungee-jumping cows. As a cow bungees from
the top of the screen, she goes "MooooooOOOOOOOOooooo!!', before the
bungee cord rebounds. Occasionally, a cow's cord will break, and she
crashes into a heap of hamburgers and hot dogs at the bottom of the
screen.
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mcnally
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response 57 of 108:
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Mar 11 18:02 UTC 1998 |
I like their "Satori" screen saver, though I don't bother much with
screen savers these days. I think that EnergyStar and APM have dealt
a serious blow to the screen-saver camp.
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magnetic
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response 58 of 108:
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Mar 12 03:40 UTC 1998 |
can you telnet from this pico or from my account here at grex?
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mcnally
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response 59 of 108:
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Mar 12 04:02 UTC 1998 |
Not unless you pay to become a Grex member. Grex is pretty generous
about providing e-mail, conferencing, chat (party), etc, but partly
because of resource limitations and partly for other reasons most
out-bound network services are restricted to members.
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krj
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response 60 of 108:
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Mar 12 05:04 UTC 1998 |
Where are the bungee-jumping cows? We've bought two recent
After Dark screen saver packages and I don't recall those...
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okuma
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response 61 of 108:
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Mar 12 21:46 UTC 1998 |
Whatever happened to cyberkiller who started all of this?
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tao
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response 62 of 108:
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Mar 12 23:24 UTC 1998 |
re 60: I was referring to an older version, Ken. Perhaps
the bungee cows have been discontinued in the current
versions. But I hope not.
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krj
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response 63 of 108:
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Mar 13 00:43 UTC 1998 |
Leslie and I just searched through our Win95 versions of
"After Dark Classics" and "After Dark 4.0." No bungee cows.
We are bummed.
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tao
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response 64 of 108:
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Mar 13 14:42 UTC 1998 |
You have my sympathies.
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remmers
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response 65 of 108:
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Mar 13 17:42 UTC 1998 |
Re #61: The author of this item has not logged on since the
day he posted it. He may have decided that Grex is not fruitful
territory for discussions of the kind he's interested in.
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albaugh
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response 66 of 108:
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Mar 13 18:17 UTC 1998 |
let's not have a moment of silence in honor of that :-)
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gibson
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response 67 of 108:
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Mar 13 18:43 UTC 1998 |
No amen!
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vejiita
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response 68 of 108:
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Mar 21 05:52 UTC 1998 |
ok...pals.... how about the toasters ?...should we have amen for it ?
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gibson
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response 69 of 108:
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Mar 21 09:29 UTC 1998 |
Lets just offer up a toast.
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srw
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response 70 of 108:
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Mar 23 03:07 UTC 1998 |
Didn't the flying toasters come from a Jefferson Airplane Album? Wasn't
Berkely Software sued over it? Isn't that the reason that the toasters
found themselves not well suited for even the video effects ecosystem,
and so they are now to be found only in the grex drift items ecosystem?
<flap flap pop>
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memetics
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response 71 of 108:
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Apr 5 00:23 UTC 1998 |
lots of things to say on the above
I bet Microsoft are doing some serious logging of all that hotmail email, a
very popular hang out for all sorts of fringe types on the internet.
Hotmail addresses can be traced - in the headers the originating IP address
is listed. And if the user of the account is doing some really nasty the ISP
that IP address traces to might be of help.
Why bother with hacking?
1) Intellectual challenge
2) To warn potential targets before someone less ethical comes along
3) Kudos
As stated - depends on the definition of "hack". Do you mean finding the
error in the code for the ftp daemon and sneaking a root shell? Or do you
mean running a lame script that winnuke's a University's Class B? The former
is intelligent, the latter is vandalism.
I would have thought Grex would be popular with hackers - free telnet account,
a chance to run all sorts of things. Plus what's the security at
cyberspace.org like, we don't get chrooted.....
Oh, and a fourth reason to hack - to gain employment. i presume groups such
as IBM's "ethical" hackers get paid lots of money.
I forget the names - because I have v poor memory, but the two guys who set
up Apple were both phreakers ( phone system hackers ). Don't know hackers
( white hats ) who come in, impress the sysadmin, tell him of the holes, and
then leave, its the "black hats" you need to worry about.
mcnally and other - most hackers are "script kiddies", who use "hack in a box"
t001z to make an impact. I'm definitely a script kiddie :)
and that's that - looks like I joined the conversation too late - just when
everythign changed to toaster talk
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srw
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response 72 of 108:
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Apr 6 20:46 UTC 1998 |
your comments were interesting, though, and the toaster talk appears to
have died down to 0 after my cutting questions in resp:70.
My hats off to hackers who can distinguish ethical hacking from the
other kind, and who can remain ethical. I learned about hacking at the
source of all hacking, the Tech model Railroad Club in the 1960s. yes,
I'm old. yes, I'm square. But I am a hacker in the original sense.
We didn't have any vandals. We at TMRC are deeply offended that in the
popular culture the behavior of people who steal service, break root to
read other people's mail, run denial-of-service attacks, deal in
stolen passwords and CC numbers, and generally commit hi-tech vandalism,
is called hacking. That stuff is all illegal and for a good
reason. Hacking is an ethical activity, or at least it was until the
media came in and redefined the word to include vandalism.
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srw
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response 73 of 108:
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Apr 6 20:48 UTC 1998 |
Lots of script kiddies come to grex to run their scripts, because we are
so open. What amazes me is that they see a point in trying to crack a
system that has the door open and the welcome mat down.
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memetics
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response 74 of 108:
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Apr 15 15:44 UTC 1998 |
Last point first. Disappointed to see the script kiddies using GREX as a
playground. If I had that kind of time / ability I'd use it to better
effect than playing with a useful, friendly free service like GREX.
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