HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Attempted post
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:15:48 GMT
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>>>>> In article <1992Nov12.062310.19323@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>,
>>>>> tspindle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (tom spindler) writes:

>I've done similar stuff on my old Apple ][. It's lots of fun when the
>directory track dies and you're down to searching for track/sector
>lists, trying to piecemeal files back together on a new disk with a
>sector editor, then building a new directory from scratch.

ts> Aw, but if you have the T/S lists intact, that makes things
ts> pathetically easy. Not hard at all.

But *finding* the T/S lists can be a bitch, especially when most of
the data on the disk looks like T/S lists :-).

ts> ObHack: on said Apple II, modifying RWTS to read in sectors that
ts> had been written with the wrong skew pattern but write them out
ts> normally.

LittleObHack: Change 3 bytes in DOS and you can access 40 tracks
instead of the default 35. It won't work on the old-old-old Shugart
drives, though.

--Rat
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: BIFF.X: Lex script to simulate BIFF
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:56:04 GMT

In article <1dcgr1INN67h@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM writes:
>(Wistful sigh.) But enough of this reminiscing.  I just wanted to point
>out a few minor errors which seem to have crept into your code.  Any
>BIFFologist could probably offer more insight, but I wanted to get
>USENET credit for being first.

[ Long detailed examination of BIFF.X left out ]

Wow. Well, as I said, this was BIFF's first attempt at a lex filter, and
apparently he made quite a few mistakes. Some of these were in fact oversights
of mine, because I helped him to write it, but I have seen numerous occasions
of "!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111" or  even "!!!!!!!!!@@@!@!" on the end of BIFF's 
exclamations, probably due to pressing the wrong key or letting go of the
<shift> too soon. 

Perhaps my impression of BIFF was that he was less precise than you detailed
him to be. He and I will sit down and have a very long chat about this tonight.

You're right; BIFF is unique. I don't think a mere lex script could do him
justice.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "She's like jelly roll, like sculpture!"
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: "TSR" on CP/M (Was: Re: USA Today KNOWS what a hacker is...)
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:05:32 GMT
Originator: janl@driva.ifi.uio.no


In article <12NOV199201052124@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu>, 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.190330.445@ifi.uio.no>, janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt) writes...
>> 
>> 
>>OBHack: Writing a "TSR" for CP/M, to make the "Function keys" have a function.
>>  I managed the part with giving the f-keys a function (bios listings are
>>  handy :-), but never finnished the TSR part.
> 
>   How did you plan to do this ?

The bios-entrypoint, if I recall correctly, is somewhere in hi-mem,
and pointed to by a fixed address in low mem. It indicats the highest
address a program can use for storage. Move this and the bios jump
table (which it points to) lower and you can get a free space up there
to do whatever you want.

One way was to let the program start be started, move to hi-mem and
adjust the bios-entrypoint as described above. Then change the kbd
interupt vector and terminate. Another way was to let my prog start
the prog the f-key definitions were to work for after moving about on
things. Then exit when the "child" program died. I tried the last,
but I had little experience with "parsing" (the commandline) so I
didn't manage to set up the FCB's like I needed to. Thinking of it now
the first one might have been easier... Oh well.

This was done in wonderfull Z80 assembly on a norwegian CP/M machine
called "Tiki" which I loved. All highly unportable. --- Remember zed?
And that interactive dissassembler that Tom Christiansen (?????  vague
memory) wrote?? The one he was offered bucks not to release to the
public because it was so powerfull? I have the disks and 'puter
somewhere still...

Nicolai
-- 
Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"             
Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no
From: reed@snake.tc.cornell.edu (Michael G. Reed)
Subject: Re: Attempted post
Followup-To: alt.hackers
Reply-To: reed@TC.Cornell.EDU
Organization: Cornell National Supercomputing Facility
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:38:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.062310.19323@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>, tspindle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (tom spindler) writes:
|> >PS> ObHack: Using dd to salvage as much as I could from a disk whose
|> >PS> superblock was clobbered in a power outage.  That was in days when
|> >PS> we only had a TK50 for backups and we were young and
|> >PS> indestructible.  Wading through the disk playing jigsaw puzzle
|> >PS> games with the ASCII files ages you fast!
|> >
|> >I've done similar stuff on my old Apple ][. It's lots of fun when the
|> >directory track dies and you're down to searching for track/sector
|> >lists, trying to piecemeal files back together on a new disk with a
|> >sector editor, then building a new directory from scratch.
|> 
|> Aw, but if you have the T/S lists intact, that makes things pathetically
|> easy. Not hard at all.
|> 
|> ObHack: on said Apple II, modifying RWTS to read in sectors that had
|> been written with the wrong skew pattern but write them out normally.
|> 
|> 

Yes, Apple ][ T/S maps were easy...Try piecing back together an 20meg ProDos
Hard Disk that started a low level format - Lost the first 100 physical 
blocks of the disk (Partition map for the drive, plus the directory structure
under ProDos), now THAT was a bitch.

ObHack: On an Apple ][ again, modifying the RWTS to purposely shuffle the
        skew pattern on the disk (lots of fun on performance :) ).

-Michael

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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
Subject: Re: keyboard hacks (was NSA Info...?)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:54:56 GMT

menees@utkvx3.utk.edu (Menees, Bill) writes:

>DoomedHack:  Trying to make the Atari 400 keyboard work with my Gateway 486,
>just so I can spill my Jolt and not worry. 

I like it.  You wouldn't happen to have a second keyboard I could use
with my IBM 3151?

ObHack: After breaking the picture tube in my IBM 3151 terminal, a
sales-droid told me I could buy a new one for $780 Cdn. and I didn't
feel like buying 4 to get the discount.  So, I took an old VT100 I
happened to have sitting around, and rigged up a retrofit.  Took me
a while to figure out that I had to adjust the capacitive load to get
the vertical retrace to behave right.

-- 
    Rob McKeever  VE7ICJ  rmckeeve@sfu.ca  mckeeveb@sfu.ca  604-291-0457
"Do you know what standards are?  They're career paths for people who don't
 want to work!" - John Parkinson, Ernst & Young at the BCDMA Conference '92
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
Subject: Re: USA Today KNOWS what a hacker is...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A   
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:05:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.190330.445@ifi.uio.no>, janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt) writes...
> 
> 
>OBHack: Writing a "TSR" for CP/M, to make the "Function keys" have a function.
>  I managed the part with giving the f-keys a function (bios listings are
>  handy :-), but never finnished the TSR part.

  How did you plan to do this ?

>Nicolai
> 
>--
>Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"             
>Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no

alex khalil alex@dt.uh.edu
U. of Houston-Downtown
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: asu@panther4.panther.mot.com (Russ Trotter)
Subject: Is it really possible to post anonymously?
Organization: Motorola Panther Project, Chandler, AZ
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:29:34 GMT

Hello,
  I know somebody here has got to know this one...but...is
it really possible to post anonymously...untraceable?
Is this just a pipe dream?
 
Russ

Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: hardware hack: _very_ portable Yamaha keyboard
Organization: Milo's Meadow
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:46:56 GMT

In article <ZOWIE.92Nov10045119@daedalus.stanford.edu> zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:
>Well, here's an OK hardware hack:
>
>This year, I've modified my Yamaha PSR-500 keyboard for use in the Stanford 
>University Marching Band.  It's the only regularly-used keyboard I know of, 
>in *any* marching band.  Has anyone heard of another?
>
The Rice University MOB.  We use a neck strap and an Amp Pusher, or just put
the keyboard on a rack on top of the amp, which is a BIG mofo with a little
dolly we wheel it around on.  But it works.  Runs on a 12V auto battery, btw.

Adam

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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: jmcarli@srv.PacBell.COM (Jerry M. Carlin)
Subject: Your neighbor may be a Space Alien!
Organization: the Organization
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:54:41 GMT


From some tabloid -> "Your neighbor may be a Space Alien!" 

According to the story, you don't need all of these to identify
an alien, only most of them:

-> "Sleep or work patterns of abnormal length."

-> "A mood change... when near certain high-tech hardware..."

-> "Constant information gathering." 

-> "Ownership of unusually large amount of high-technology equipment,
   such as computers."

-> "The misuse of common everyday items."

I'll meet the rest of you at the usual rendezvous to finalize our plan
for the final conquest of earth this Friday at 1:13pm. Now that we've
completed our infiltration, success is certain! Tomorrow the universe!

-- 
Jerry M. Carlin	(510) 823-2441 jmcarli@srv.pacbell.com
Alchemical Engineer and Virtual Realist
From: brand@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Brandenburg)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: stupid floppy tricks (was Re: Attempted post)
Keywords: archaic storage desparate measures
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:57:59 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

In article <RATINOX.92Nov12111840@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu writes:
>
>LittleObHack: Change 3 bytes in DOS and you can access 40 tracks
>instead of the default 35. It won't work on the old-old-old Shugart
>drives, though.
>

Ah, but did you ever experiment to see if you could get *more* than 40 tracks
off a 40-track drive?  I discovered that I had actually gotten one 42-track
and one 43-track drive.  Trying to treat them as 44-track drives led to funny
noises and read errors, to nobody's great surprise.  Those worm gear head
positioners sure could develop some torque.

This was on the Trash-80 Model I, which got a lot of weird third-party
support.  In addition to the standard 35-track single sided drives, there
were double-sided drives, double-density adaptors, 40-track drives, 77-track
drives, 80-track drives, 8-inch drives, and toward the end, 5 MEG HARD DRIVES
("now under $2000!").  Step speeds varied by an order of magnitude, and there
were bytes to change to tune those, too.

And if you didn't like something, you could cut traces, solder, and *fix* it.
Try *that* with your eight-layer 486DX2/66 motherboard.  Sigh...

	-jeffB (Jeff Brandenburg, Va. Tech CS)
	"Two extra tracks?  That's so sleazy."
	"Hey, 9K is 9K..."
From: Jimbo@*.il
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: (none)
Date: 10 Nov 92 11:17:16 GMT

Helo Hackers of Sun World...

As a Manual reader i was thinking to be able to do things...
[in fact i did...]
but now come a chalenge ... one i am not able to solv alone...
i fingered someone last night and just before his .project was
write 'Connected From: nowhere'
the prog seem to be easy a nod on .project and sending to port 79
but it didnt work...
i am not use to write on alt.hackers but here is a good reason to do
it.
Well if someone know a prog that is doing it or may have some ids...
emails are welcome...

Hacking for fun.
			Jimbo.

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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: bianco@crocus.cs.odu.edu (David J. Bianco)
Subject: Re: Yodaspeak (was TV show)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
	<1992Oct30.141057.1024@davidge.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:14:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct30.141057.1024@davidge.com> cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein) writes:
   In article <EMERICK.92Oct28210041@csa.bu.edu> emerick@cs.bu.edu writes:
   >
   >Obsmallhack:  Wrote a program to take normal text and churn out
   >              Yoda-speak.  
   >

	   Any chance you'd post this?  I'm kind of collecting
   these types of programs and currently have ones that do
   'Fuddspeak', 'Swedish Chefspeak', and 'Drawlspeak'.  Yoda
   would be a great addition.

hmm... I've only got the standard Jive/Valspeak filters
(plus the BIFFSTER!!1!! filter posted recently 8) My 
ObHack is that I patched it into the IRC client code
so that incoming or outgoing (your choice) text can be
filtered through it.  "And now, live on IRC, BIFF!!!1!!!"
It's pretty funny.  It has been suggested that I provide
a choice of filters for different people.  I'm putting
that capability in now, and would really appreciate it
if you could let me know where I might find other filters.
'Specially the swedish chef! 8)


--
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Old Dominion University    			<bianco@cs.odu.edu>
Dept of Computer Science,		"BORGer King:  We do it our way.
Norfolk, VA 23529			 Your way is irrelevant..."
===============================================================================
From: hopefully@anon.o.mous
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Is it really possible to post anonymously?
Organization: anonymous
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 17:03:31 CST

asu@panther4.panther.mot.com (Russ Trotter) writes:

> Hello,
>   I know somebody here has got to know this one...but...is
> it really possible to post anonymously...untraceable?
> Is this just a pipe dream?
>  
I think so.  I'm going to attempt it right now.  Note, the signature
is there on purpose...  (in case it works, and/or to see what happens)

Greg


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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Decifer it (if you can)
From: jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner)
Date: 6 Nov 92 03:20:39 EST
Distribution: world
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mhunt writes:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

 [PGP block munched]

> -----END PGP MESSAGE-----

using off the shelf software hardly counts as a hack.

jason

PGP2.0 public key available on request.

--
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From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Here's the Chef (was Re: Yodaspeak (was TV show))
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:47:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cornell Theory Center

In article <BIANCO.92Nov11151433@crocus.cs.odu.edu> bianco@crocus.cs.odu.edu (David J. Bianco) writes:
>if you could let me know where I might find other filters.
>'Specially the swedish chef! 8)

Since you're all clamoring for it, I'll post my copy of the Swedish Chef
lex filter "chef.x". This is the funniest lex filter I've seen so far. No
I didn't write it, and if it doesn't work don't complain to me. :)

Here ya go. Just save it to 'chef.x' and execute

	lex chef.x
	cc -o chef lex.yy.c -ll

Have fun!
mdw

------snip snip bork bork bork-----------
%{
/* chef.x - convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
 *
 * The WC definition matches any word character, and the NW definition matches
 * any non-word character.  Two start conditions are maintained: INW (in word)
 * and NIW (not in word).  The first rule passes TeX commands without change.
 *
 * HISTORY
 *
 * Apr 15, 1992; John Hagerman: Created.
 */

static int i_seen = 0;
%}

WC		[A-Za-z']
NW		[^A-Za-z']

%start		INW NIW

%%

\\[^ \n]+	ECHO;

{NW}		{ BEGIN NIW; i_seen = 0; ECHO; }
"."$		{ BEGIN NIW; i_seen = 0; printf(".\nBork Bork Bork!"); }

<NIW>"bork"/{NW} ECHO;
<NIW>"Bork"/{NW} ECHO;

"an"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("un"); }
"An"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("Un"); }
"au"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("oo"); }
"Au"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("Oo"); }
"a"/{WC}	{ BEGIN INW; printf("e"); }
"A"/{WC}	{ BEGIN INW; printf("E"); }
"en"/{NW}	{ BEGIN INW; printf("ee"); }
<INW>"ew"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("oo"); }
<INW>"e"/{NW}	{ BEGIN INW; printf("e-a"); }
<NIW>"e"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("i"); }
<NIW>"E"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("I"); }
<INW>"f"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("ff"); }
<INW>"ir"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("ur"); }
<INW>"i"	{ BEGIN INW; printf(i_seen++ ? "i" : "ee"); }
<INW>"ow"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("oo"); }
<NIW>"o"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("oo"); }
<NIW>"O"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("Oo"); }
<INW>"o"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("u"); }
"the"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("zee"); }
"The"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("Zee"); }
"th"/{NW}	{ BEGIN INW; printf("t"); }
<INW>"tion"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("shun"); }
<INW>"u"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("oo"); }
<INW>"U"	{ BEGIN INW; printf("Oo"); }
"v"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("f"); }
"V"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("F"); }
"w"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("v"); }
"W"		{ BEGIN INW; printf("V"); }

.		{ BEGIN INW; ECHO; }
-----snip snip bork bork bork------------------

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "She's like jelly roll, like sculpture!"
From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:16:26 EST
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: re: Words (was: decode)

>From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
>
>>- -- -
>>David M. Chess                     \    Femmes aux tetes de fleurs
>>High Integrity Computing Lab       \     retrouvant sur la plage la
>>IBM Watson Research                \     depouille d'un piano a queue
>
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Alexandre Khalil                       D'ou provient cette citation,
>                                      s'il vous plait ?

It's the title of one of my favorite Salvador Dali paintings; I
thought it'd make a nice enigmatic .sig!  *8)   For the
non-Francophone (non-Francovid?), it means roughly "Women
with heads of flowers find on the beach the skin of a
grand piano".  (Literally "piano with a tail"; the French
idiom for a grand.)  A very accurate description of the
scene depicted, in fact!

No hack is ob this time, as I'm answering a question.  A small
OptHack: playing with the TinyMud sources, I made the TEMPLE
flag meaningful for exits (you get the sacrifice value of the
exit when you pass through it, as long as you don't own it),
and enhanced @set to take a numeric value (as in, say,
"@set archway = 100") so you can give values to exits.
Someday I'll be done hacking on it (there's a contradition
in terms for you!), and will let someones actually play in it...

- -- -
David M. Chess                | "Some look at the world as it is, and ask
High Integrity Computing Lab  |  'why?'. I look at the world as it is,
IBM Watson Research           |  and say 'Hey, neat hack!'."  - J. R. H.
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: rawass@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Alexander Rawass)
Subject: Re: Is it really possible to post anonymously?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:48:51 GMT

asu@panther4.panther.mot.com (Russ Trotter) writes:

>Hello,
>  I know somebody here has got to know this one...but...is
>it really possible to post anonymously...untraceable?
>Is this just a pipe dream?
> 

It is....

you just have to use some other servers than your own...


Rawalex
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rawass@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de | Monty Python's Life of Brian                     
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From: djd@csg.cs.reading.ac.uk (David J Dawkins)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: lucky : -)
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:45:17 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


>	This was a linux hack, and it saved me booting from a root disk (which
>I didn't want to do). Any way, someone was trying to install gcc, and managed
>to chmod 644 /bin/*. Which was pretty cool, as I only knew when 'chmod' became a
>'Command not found', so I had effectivly lost /bin. Jumped into /usr/bin (only
>other place with binaries). /usr/bin was still there, intact :-).
>	Well, /usr/bin was pretty sparce, but fortunately, included 'uuencode',
>'uudecode', and 'elvis' (a vi clone). To get a working chmod, all I needed to do
>was 'uuencode chmod chmod > chmod.uu', vi the header to look like 'begin 755
>chmod.yes', save the changes, and type 'uudecode chmod.uu'. Now that I had a
>chmod the rest was simple.

Now *that* is what I call a neat hack!

ObHack:

This is a bit of a pig of a hack, but I remember when I was about 12-13
hacking my radio so that it came in the morning when the sun came up.
This involved connecting a Light Depedendent Resistor to the base of
a transistor. That was it - no other resistors to set the thing up.
Funny thing was, it worked!  I told you it was a pig.


-dave "Gave up electronics and misprogram computers now"

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