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From: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl (koos van den hout)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Norton futilities for data recovery
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 22:20:23 GMT
Organization: HIN / BBS Koos z'n Doos
NewsSoftware: Rnf 0.71b

You would say that some of the programs in the Norton set are made for data
recovery but since I use a 'misfeature' of the main NU program, I consider it
a hack worth mentioning in alt.hackers.

Ever got one of those disks that give all kinds of errors when read by copy or
some other program and don't give an error at all when you're looking at it
sector by sector ?

I got one of those last weekend and I desperately needed the files stored on
it.
Copy failed (General Failure...), but reading the sectors of the file I was
trying to copy worked fine.

So, I loaded the file in the NU program and selected 'write item to disk'.
This copies a selected item to another file. But, due to the design of NU
it copies the file sector by sector (512 bytes) in stead of the normal
big-buffer copying.
It took quite a while but I could recover all the files on the disk.

So, I hacked the Norton Utilities...

(Now, all I still need to hack is a Rodime harddisk that likes to park itself
so much it parks when heavily used instead of when turned of... Not a very nice
harddisk to run a BBS on...)

                                        Grtx. KH

/-- Koos van den Hout ----------------------------------------------- Sysop --\
| Student Computer Science (AKA HIO)       BBS Koos z'n Doos (+31-3402-36647) |
| Inter-: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl                 300..14400 MNP2-5,10,V42bis) |
| net                                           Fido: Sysop @ 2:500/101.11012 |
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: REPOST of Hacker Personality Characteristics
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 02:51:51 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <C0oGK9.61y@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.180411.26449@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu
>(Mike Marcelais) writes: 
>>Most hackers I know are either ISTP or INTP, with a few ISTJ's thrown in.  I
>>don't think their is a standard group for 'hackers though'
>
>My Meyers-Briggs personality type is SMTP. :-)
>
>Warner

How does that differ from SNMP?  
-- 
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Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
Just say NO to police searches and seizures.  Make them use force.
(not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
Subject: re: "Hack", and RTF
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:30:44 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

>In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
>to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
>well....

Definitely!  But I don't think that's the intent in this case.  The
connotation here seems to be something like "cocaine user" or "criminal"
or perhaps just "jerk/fool/creep".  It's certainly not "hack" as used
in this newsgroup, for instance, nor does it seem to be "reporter"
or "unskilled writer" or "taxi (driver)" or "cigarette smoker" or
"short cough".  Maybe it just happened to fit nicely in the lyric...   *8)

Thanks to everyone who suggested places to get an RTF spec, by the
way!  I found one adequate for me at export.lcs.mit.edu, file
contrib/XcRichText-1.5.tar.Z(Rich_Text_Format_Spec).

- -- -
David M. Chess                 | "Master, how may I comprehend the One?"
High Integrity Computing Lab   | "Have you finished your coding?"  "Yes."
IBM Watson Research            | "Then go and compile!"   -- Hacker Koan
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: alan@nxsci173a.mrs.umn.edu (Puffin)
Subject: Re: Huh? (Re: Articles rejected at news.uu.net during the past week)
Reply-To: kruegewa@cda.mrs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:08:24 GMT

In article <C0B5p7.6tu@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz  
(The Technicolour Throw-up) writes:
>From article <1hn5o5INNo9e@rodan.UU.NET>, by rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz):
>> The articles listed below were rejected by InterNetNews at news.uu.net  
during
>> the past week because they do not conform to standard interpretation of
>> Internet RFCs 822 and 1036.  They are probably being rejected by other
>> standards-conforming sites as well.  A total of 90399 articles were
>> accepted during this time.
>> [...]
>> Unapproved articles posted to a moderated group:
>> [...]
>> <3VT1VB3w165w@tld.entropy.mcds.com> alt.hackers
>> [...]
>
>Can someone explain this one to me?

You've posted here, so you must understand how.  (Or so one would hope...)

The poster of <3VT1VB3w165w@tld.entropy.mcds.com> obviously does NOT  
understand.

Understand?
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From: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: How I spent 7 days jacked into the kitchen clock
Date: 4 Jan 93 07:55:15 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
Keywords: tick tock
Organisation: Wassat?!

'lo netters,

As you all know we just had a Xmas and NY zip by us, for better or worse.
Unfortunately a lot of Uni's here in aussie decide that it's time to give
their unix machines a rest and turn them off over the break. The end result
of this is a lot of wailing no-life students were left out in the cold.

Anyway because of the lack of telnet access even I was reduced to sitting
on an annex and connecting direct to the IRC server and getting my fix from
it for seven days. Today I had to counsel my brain to stop typing in 'raw'
irc mode and use the pretty doovy client properly.

The IRC server needs it's connections to be active every 90 seconds or it
gives you the big bye bye. Since I just have a 'dumb' terminal and no
way of driving a CPU to do anything intelligent I couldnt write a program
to do the polling for me. I was losing $$$ in phone calls and getting
slightly cheesed so basically I went looking and found in the kitchen my 
flatmates clock >:). After absconding with said clock I preceeded to dismantle
my keyboard, with all it's 50 screws, trace the pads to the mylar edge
edge connectors and run two wires out of the socket, all without loosing the
connection. (I was pressing the key upside down or on the pad direct to
ping back to the server)

Next trick was to set up the clock. That required trimming some wire down 
to just one single solitary strand and wrapping it around the moving second
hand to extend it two more inches to the edge of the clock face. There 
fixed with blu-tak (a chewing gum substitute) was another single strand that
was bent so the wire on the second hand climbed a few millimeters of plastic
insulation before falling onto the wire, running up it on a gentle slope and
then dropping away to complete another revolution. 

Thus, once I was connected up, (and fortunately the kb had enough sensitivity
to sit in my lap in bed a comfortable 3 meters away), I had a precision (hah!)
means of generating the needed pulse every minute. The key I chose was a
function key which I could program with any string, in this case 'ping me'.

This worked well for a day until you guessed it, the bloody battery died.
(Thanks Murphy). Anyway I decided to do it properly and installed a little
3.5mm socket into the side of the keyboard so I could jack the 'circuit'
in and out at will. I then could close up the keyboard again too :).

All in all it worked quite nicely and I shall remember it next time McGyver
and I have to defuse a nuclear bomb before it causes the Hoover dam to burst
and kills 40 million people on Xmas eve. :) What I intend doing is to wire
up a 555 timer chip with some other oddments and have a little box I can
attach to the edge of the keyboard which has selectable times from shorted
links. Maybe rest the timer every time a key is pressed. But thats another
hack...

Hacky new year!!!

Mark
mark@coombs.anu.edu.au
From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: REPOST of Hacker Personality Characteristics
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:55:20 GMT
Organization: ParcPlace Boulder

In article <1993Jan8.180411.26449@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu
(Mike Marcelais) writes: 
>Most hackers I know are either ISTP or INTP, with a few ISTJ's thrown in.  I
>don't think their is a standard group for 'hackers though'

My Meyers-Briggs personality type is SMTP. :-)

Warner
-- 
Warner Losh		imp@boulder.parcplace.COM	ParcPlace Boulder
I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.
From: curtis@NeoSoft.com (Curtis Keller)
Subject: child monitor range extension
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:08:23 GMT

HACK - added a 25ft single wire antenna - inductively coupled to
a Gerry baby monitor transmitter - increased range SIGNIFICANTLY!


-- 
Curtis Keller
713-953-8309
curtis@neosoft.com
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais)
Subject: Re: Norton futilities for data recovery
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:57:43 GMT

In article <gate.osLZwB1w164w@kzdoos.hacktic.nl>, koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl (koos van den hout) writes:
|> So, I loaded the file in the NU program and selected 'write item to disk'.
|> This copies a selected item to another file. But, due to the design of NU
|> it copies the file sector by sector (512 bytes) in stead of the normal
|> big-buffer copying.
|> It took quite a while but I could recover all the files on the disk.
|> 
|> So, I hacked the Norton Utilities...
|>

Another out of date hacker...
Using DE (from Norton 6.01), you can select multiple sectors to operate on. 
When copying them, it will read in as many as will fit in memory.

|> (Now, all I still need to hack is a Rodime harddisk that likes to park itself|> so much it parks when heavily used instead of when turned of... Not a very nice
|> harddisk to run a BBS on...)

Well, try poking around in the controler for the circut that does the
auto-parking and disable it.  Probably will void the warranty though.

Even better, just get a faster HD for the BBS and use the Rodime for normal
stuff.  (like hacking...)
 

|> 
|>                                         Grtx. KH
|> 
|> /-- Koos van den Hout ----------------------------------------------- Sysop --\
|> | Student Computer Science (AKA HIO)       BBS Koos z'n Doos (+31-3402-36647) |
|> | Inter-: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl                 300..14400 MNP2-5,10,V42bis) |
|> | net                                           Fido: Sysop @ 2:500/101.11012 |
|> | Schurftnet : KILL !!!                    (We want callers!!!)               |

-- 

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|  356 Tucker, Box 04783, NCSU        | Fourth Bryan Productions     |
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+-------------------------------------+------------------------------+
| if the above address bounces, then try the address below:          |
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Organization: large
Date: 11 Jan 1993 10:21:25 EST
Expires: 1 Apr 93 12:34
Subject: Norton futilities 
From: hobbit@babyoil.ftp.com (*Hobbit*)

Yeah, I got one of those once.. a specially-microcoded Conner IDE that had
a custom BIOS for Compaqs.  I could only read it a sector at a time; DOS
wouldn't deal at all.  A small DEBUG hack to do a zillion int13 reads
eventually got all the stuff onto another drive...

_H*
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin)
Subject: Mines for dos
Summary: games
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:31:25 GMT

hack: Writeing (or cloneing, I should say) That Cool Windows Game
'MineSweeper' to run under dos . . . boy, you know, I had to learn
a lot of Pascal to do the damn thing.  I should get college credit for
that!!!  I've done more work on that in the last two weeks than on
all of my CS homework combined . . . 

okay, okay . . real ObHack
Getting a your mouse handler to return pixel coordinates in a text mode:
Set your screen to the text mode.  Poke the byte value 12h (for VGA
640x480x16) into [$0040:$0047].  Initialize the mouse (ah=00,int 33h)
the mouse handler reads the mem value at [$0040:$0047], then poke
back your text mode value into that address.  Presto, the mouse handler
returns pixel coordinates in a text mode.  Of course, the mouse cursor
is screwed . . . 
(sorry, I didn't figure that out myself, but I still think it's rad.
 Haven't you ever wondered how Norton got a graphics cursor in a text mode?)

ed
--
|ed -- gilligan@camelot.bradley.edu | If man is 5, then the devil is 6.      |
|   -- gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu     | And if the devil is 6, then god is 7.  |
|    (only until Jan 30)            | This monkey's gone to heaven.          |
|  Are you deviant?  Probably.      |      -- Pixies                         |
From: rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Andrea Seal)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
Date: 11 Jan 1993 07:03:44 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:

>>In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
>>to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
>>well....

>Definitely!  But I don't think that's the intent in this case.  The
>connotation here seems to be something like "cocaine user" or "criminal"
>or perhaps just "jerk/fool/creep".  It's certainly not "hack" as used
>in this newsgroup, for instance, nor does it seem to be "reporter"
>or "unskilled writer" or "taxi (driver)" or "cigarette smoker" or
>"short cough".  Maybe it just happened to fit nicely in the lyric...   *8)

It's also used to describe a musican who does any gig he can pick up
eg. Weddings etc. Anyway, who cares?..(maybe me..=-)

-- 
  _-_|\      Greg Patten. 
 /     \     (No title) 
 \_.-.*/ <-- Melbourne, Australia.
      v      email: rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
From: haha@vipunen.hut.fi (Harri Haanp{{)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Yet Another First Post You Want To Skip
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:26:01 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Wonder if this works.

ObHack: Actually understanding the beauty of an IOCCC entry.

HH
From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: approval thing.
Date: 4 Jan 93 07:09:14 GMT

Hi guys, I know you hate tests but authors of software on my favourite NNTP
server apparently had a clue on how to detect forged self-moderation. So now
I got to figure out another way to talk to you. I don't know if you got a 
previous message, just trying another way to do it.

Oleg
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: schubach@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (bernard william schubach)
Subject: Procomm Plus Hacks
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:15:39 GMT

Have you ever wanted to send a Control-] to escape out of a telnet
connection while using Procomm Plus on a PC.

Have you ever wanted to type ` (a backwards apostrophe) for some
sort of picture or whatnot while using Procomm Plus on a PC.

Both of these control sequences and possibly others are interpreted
as commands in Procomm.

Not to worry... Just go into "Ascii Download" mode, and suddenly
all of these characters are typeable.

Bernie...."No hack too small!"


Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: d9mj@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Scott Coolness)
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:33:01 GMT

rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Andrea Seal) writes:

>chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:

>>>In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
>>>to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
>>>well....


I think that in this case it probably refers to a computer intruder.
You know, one of those guys that breaks into government computer
systems and writes worms................... Just kidding.

A hack can also be a bad surgeon.

--
--
Scott Mankowitz, mankowitz@cornell.edu
"Bio, that's right, a bio major."
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: kgspence@mtu.edu (Phi Phi 211)
Subject: It can't be this easy...
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:46:28 GMT


Obhack: This is if it works.... :)
-- 
Keith G. Spencer |"I want peace on Earth & goodwill towards men. -         |
kgspence@mtu.edu | We're the United States government, we don't do that!"  |
Phi Phi 211      |-------------------------------------- -Sneakers- -------|
PGP-finger kgspence@pace1.cts.mtu.edu    (Vball players score on the floor!)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
Subject: "Hack", and RTF
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:47:44 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?

Hack: a REXX program to translate a small subset (really small;
eensty-beentsy in fact) of GML into Microsoft RTF, so the Windows
help compiler would accept it.  It was a hack primarily because I
have no documentation on RTF format, and had to wing it by reading
some RTF files and extrapolating.  (Does anyone know if there
*is* any documentation on RTF format?  My doc collection in that
area is minimal.)

- -- -
David M. Chess                              50,000 lemmings
High Integrity Computing Lab                   can't be wrong!
IBM Watson Research
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: nickp@bnr.ca (Nick Pitfield)
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
Organization: BNR Europe Limited
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:33:15 GMT

>In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
>there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
>An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
>this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?

In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
well....

Regards.


    Nick Pitfield.

ObHack) this message (cheesy though it may be).

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||  Look at the lies we've swallowed, and I don't want to hear no more"       ||
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
Subject: Re: REPOST of Hacker Personality Characteristics
Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:52:52 GMT

Many of you have probably seen this excerpt from some jargon file or
another.  The reposter didn't post it to alt.hackers, for some inane
reason.

Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>

			*	*	*

Newsgroups: alt.psychology.personality,comp.misc,sci.psychology,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc
From: rabbe@infolog.se (Rabbe Fogelholm)
Subject: Re: Preschool software needed for autistic child
Organization: Infologics AB, Sollentuna, Sweden
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:41:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.151731.5862@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
ers@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Edward Scheinerman) writes:

> Does anybody have access to software which can be run on an Atari 1040
> ST? I am seeking programs designed for preschoolers which teach the
> alphabet, beginning reading, word recognition, pre-spelling, beginning
> spelling, etc. The programs should have good graphics because the
> friend for whom I am trying to locate this software has an autistic
> child who does not yet communicate verbally. His parents and teachers
> believe that he could learn to communicate and read through the use of
> such computer programs. The family owns an Atari 1040 ST, but has been
> unable to locate software for it. If you have any, or know where it
> can be obtained, please contact me.
>
> Please reply by e-mail as I do not regularly read these newsgroups.

I too would be very interested in software to train reading, writing,
math, and possibly other things too. My autistic 7-year-old boy has
access to a PC compatible, so my immediate interest is in software
that runs under plain DOS.

________________________________________________________________________
Rabbe Fogelholm, Infologics AB     rabbe@infolog.se    fax: +46 8 960846
From: patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger)
Newsgroups: alt.education.disabled
Subject: Re: Preschool software needed for autistic child
Summary: AUTISM mailing/discussion list
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:51:33 GMT
Followup-To: alt.education.disabled,drz@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC

In article <1993Jan10.224107.24715@infolog.se> rabbe@infolog.se (Rabbe Fogelholm) writes:
>In article <1993Jan10.151731.5862@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
>ers@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Edward Scheinerman) writes:
>
>> Does anybody have access to software which can be run on an Atari 1040
>> ST? I am seeking programs designed for preschoolers which teach the
>> alphabet, beginning reading, word recognition, pre-spelling, beginning
>> spelling, etc. The programs should have good graphics because the
>> friend for whom I am trying to locate this software has an autistic
>> child who does not yet communicate verbally. His parents and teachers
>> believe that he could learn to communicate and read through the use of
>> such computer programs. The family owns an Atari 1040 ST, but has been
>> unable to locate software for it. If you have any, or know where it
>> can be obtained, please contact me.
>>
>> Please reply by e-mail as I do not regularly read these newsgroups.

	It's too bad that you don't read this group; it's also
	rude to post a request and not offer to share the information
	you receive with the rest of the group!

	Please send me - and I will summarize for the net --
	  is the usual way one goes about requesting
	  information from Networkers :-)
 
>I too would be very interested in software to train reading, writing,
>math, and possibly other things too. My autistic 7-year-old boy has
>access to a PC compatible, so my immediate interest is in software
>that runs under plain DOS.
 
	My advice is to join the AUTISM mailing/discussion
	list hosted at St. John's University by 
	Dr. Robert Zenhausern; you can reach him via email:
	   drz@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
	
-- 
Patricia Ann Bromberger                            patth@panix.com
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain. And pick flowers in 
other people's gardens And learn to spit. -- "Warning" by Jenny Joseph