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From: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
Subject: Re: Why so simple?
Organization: I'm walking backwards for Christmas, Inc.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:13:23 GMT

In article <8137@charon.cwi.nl> niels@cwi.nl (Niels Ferguson) writes:
> [ .. ]
>Fortunately (stupidly?) the startup-code is nice enough to decrypt a
>complete list of question/answers in memory somewhere. Does anybody
>know why the programmers of this kind of software make it so simple
>for us?
> [ .. ]

Who's `us' ?

Obhack: extracting bits out of Sun's shared Xmu lib and sticking such
bit on the compile command line so that I can compile some things
off the net 'coz part of the dynamic lib seems to be static, and
wouldn't be found otherwise.

	-Matt
--
I love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning.
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: Why so simple?
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 09:59:39 GMT

In a previous article, niels@cwi.nl (Niels Ferguson) says:
 
>you need the manual to find the answer. Who cares about games anyway,
>but you can't take a challenge lying down, can you? Even with the
 
This was always my feeling. You buy a game, play it for an hour,
thoroughly conquer it, and have ten times the fun tracking down every
last vestige of protection.
 
>Fortunately (stupidly?) the startup-code is nice enough to decrypt a
>complete list of question/answers in memory somewhere. Does anybody
>know why the programmers of this kind of software make it so simple
>for us?
 
Because it's not possible to completely protect anything on a personal
computer. As far as RWTS protection goes, track 0 sector 0 must always
be readable, and once you can disassemble it, you can trace it.
Not that I'm saying it's not a feat: There were particularly majestic ][+
cracks that I didn't even want to give to my friends (back when I did that
kinda thing B-) because I was so proud of the achievement.
Then again, I was a good "cracker" long before being a good programmer.
It's more tricks than anything else. ("Hacker" of course exists without
silly modifiers such as "good" or "bad").
 
>So, anyway, the question/answer list was easily extracted. My printout
>is much handier than the original manual, and I didn't even have to
>modify the code. The only problem is that the questions are Russian
>words, and I don't have any cyrillic font around. Any help?
 
Learn Russian.
Sorry. B-)
Is this Tetris we're talking about? Blech...then my answer would be
"play columns instead".
 
Marc
 
ObHack: Anything I did under THEOS 2.x. Figuring out the file structure
and rebuilding files manually after the %^&!! OS "lost" them, unable to
cope with the hard disk it unnecessarily fragmented (also writing a
script to defragment by...tape archiving twice and then restoring, once
a week!)
THEOS, the OS that makes MouSyDOS look powerful.

-- 
Marc Sira               |
toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca  |  "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
                        '
From: maniac@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Posting
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 15:10:34 PST
Reply-To: maniac@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Will it work?
 
Something stupid, like they all say.

__________________________________________________________________________
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   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N            [ maniac@cyberden.sf.ca.us ]
From: potter@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Robert D. Potter)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: hacker != cracker
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:55:49
Organization: /home/fsf/potter/.organization
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu

I return to this group after an (extended) absence and it has been taken over by
crackers.  Sigh.

ObCrack: Social engineering to get myself a guest account on silver.  :-)

	-Robert
From: sleepadm@drdhh.hanse.de (CCC Schlafplatzorga)
Subject: ***** 9th CHAOS COMMUNICATION CONGRESS *****
Organization: Digital Island
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:05:13 GMT

9. Chaos Communication Congress 1992
,,Es liegt was in der Luft''
,,There is something in the air''

27.12.1992 - 29.12.1992
Eidelst\"adter B\"urgerhaus
Elbgaustr. 12
D-2000 Hamburg 54
FRG


From December 27 to December 29 1992 the Chaos Computer Club organizes
the 9th Chaos Communication Congress. 

In parallel to the old features of the Congress (,,Hack-Centre'', Workshops) 
there will be some new topics.

One of these new features is about cellular networks and other
topics of cordless telecommunication....

This topic is going to be more important in the future. Cellular networks
get bigger and bigger, the frequency range is rising up to gigahertz range.
Do we get contamined by these high frequency networks ? 

How do these networks operate? What will happen if they crash or get hacked ?
Should it be allowed to tap this networks (not allowed in the FRG now),
If not, why not ?
To these and other questions there will be diskussed answers and alternative
possibilities of the old style to answer to these questions.

Since two years ago there rised a scene of computer-freaks
which have the possibility to use the international phonelines
without payin' the bill. This possibility appears - not only to us -
as a commitment to all people all over this planet (for now). 
There will be discussions on how to realize this civil-right, 
and if it's too hard to realize now, how to realize it in the future. 

Other topics at the Chaos Communication Congress 1992 are:

Feminine computer usage - WOMEN ONLY !
How to use networks - Beginners
How to live with Networks - Semi-Professionals
How to live in Networks - Maniacs
Chip-Cards - Could you eat them ? 
             What happened if you eat them with acid blobs ? 
             What happened if you smoke them?

Prices: All three days: 36 DM (Members 26 DM)
        One day each: 15DM (Members 10DM)

Contact:
Chaos Computer Club e.V.
Schwenckestr. 85
2000 Hamburg 20
Tel.: +49-40-4903757
Tue. &. Thu. 16.00 - 22.00 Uhr, Otherwise VMB

To get information about where to sleep if you come to visit
the CCC 92, please contact:

sleep@drdhh.hanse.de (Internet Mail)

or call +49 40 490 37 57 (Voice-Box System)


-- 
Schlafplatzorga - CCC'92 - Bjoern Kriews - Stormsweg 6 - 2000 Hamburg 76
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 27.-29.: 9. Chaos Communication Congress 1992 Eidelstedter Buergerhaus
Elbgaustr. 12, 2000 Hamburg 54, FRG + Mail me if you have questions.
From: colint@spider.co.uk (Colin Tinto)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Experimenting
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:40:36 GMT
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK


Sorry guys, just experimenting a bit.


ObHack:   Writing a set of scripts to allow transfer of files from a Unix 
	  system, through an MS-DOS PC (yeuch) and onto my Amiga.
	  Getting around the nasty restrictions on MS-DOS filenames by
	  renaming the files on the DOS disks, and automatically creating
	  an Amiga-Dos script to rename them back again...

	  Well OK, they always say No Hack Too Small :-)

 
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!   Colin Tinto		      !  Time Travel Parcel Deliveries Inc          !
!   colint@spider.co.uk	      !  The only courier with previous day service.!
\---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
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/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\
!   Colin Tinto			!  Time Travel Parcel Deliveries Inc          !
!   colint@spider.co.uk		!  The only courier with previous day service.!
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: eirik@elf.TN.Cornell.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
Subject: fun with tmpfs
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:53:58 GMT


I recently upgraded elf.TN.Cornell.EDU from a 3/280 to a 4/280; this
required a complete overhaul of several file systems, namely "/",
"/usr", and "/usr/local".

In preparation for this overhaul, I booted the new CPU board as a
diskless client of the 3/280, so that I could do such things as
building a custom kernel (necessary for my Rimfire disk controllers)
and bootstrapping the latest gcc.  I put all the sun4 binaries into
the same filesystem, "/export", for this.  Ordinarily I like to keep
"/usr/local" a separate partition from "/usr", but for temporary usage
I didn't mind mixing it all in "/export".  Anyway, when the time came
to build the new file systems, I didn't feel like copying them
separately, so I did something like

	for fs in /dev/rrf4[agf]; do newfs $fs; done
	mkdir -p /tmp/root/dumpster /tmp/exec/sun4
	mount /dev/rf4a /tmp/root/dumpster
	mount /dev/rf4g /tmp/exec/sun4
	mkdir /tmp/exec/sun4/local
	mount /dev/rf4f /tmp/exec/sun4/local
	cd /tmp
	dump 0f - /export | restore rf -

In addition to sorting out the three new file systems, this also made
copies of the other client root directories, and all of the client
swap files.  I wasn't especially worried about filling up "/tmp",
given that (at least, in single user mode) it has more free space in
it than the total size of "/export".

To reclaim the virtual memory used up by the "restore leakage", I
unmounted "/tmp" and remounted it again.  I was in single user mode,
so I wasn't concerned with "/tmp/.X11-unix/" and such disappearing.

Usually when I set up the boot disk for a new machine, or an OS
upgrade, or anything along those lines, I boot the new machine
diskless long enough to set up the new boot disk.  For this upgrade, I
did something like that, but when it came time to boot the new CPU for
real, its file server (the prior CPU in the same cage) wasn't up.  I
did the last part of the disk setup with the old CPU, installboot and
all.  When it came time to make the switch, I recabled the disks (I
essentially swapped the controllers).  If I want to "downgrade", I can
put the disks back the way they were and swap CPU boards back, at
least until I scrub the original boot disk.


For those who aren't sufficiently familiar with SunOS, perhaps I
should mention that tmpfs is a "virtual memory RAM disk".  While it
should work nearly as well mounting the new file systems under any
file system with enough free space, I find it more satisfying to
confine "restore leakage" to a truly disposable file system.


P.S.  Yes, I really did call the client dumpster; in fact, the machine
from which I'm posting this is a Sun3 diskless client with that name.
The name goes back to another Sun3 which used to perform our daily
backups (dumps) on an Exabyte.
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: David.Girardot@launchpad.unc.edu (David Girardot)
Subject: Wierd DOS Triks
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:25:04 GMT


Wierd DOS Tricks.
 
I was messing about on my dosbox as I am wont to do and for a 
lark I was screwing with this ramdisk program I have,
SRDISK.  I set the Ramdisk to pretend its a DD 3.5"
disk (720k, right).  Then I used a disk imager that
came with fd-format to image the ramdisk into a
file on my hardrive.
 
srdisk /f:720                   ; sets the ramdisk, D:, to 720k
wimage d: c:\temp\foo           ; image it to the file, foo
 
Note that there is nothing *in* the ramdisk.  Also, I just did 
a cold-boot so the xms the ramdisk is using should be pretty 
well flushed, right?
 
Well, looking through the foo file was very interesting.  Along
with the usual garbage is bits and pieces of stuff that passed
thru my humble box hours ago.  Now, anyone got any clues as to 
how this stuff found it's way into the foo file from XMS that 
should be wiped clean as a platinum loop in a magnesium flare?
 
--David

Yes, before you say it, I do have entirely too much time on my hands,
and yes I probably should get out more often. ;-)

ObHack: No hack too small, remember.  Well I had this zipfile that came
from a unix box and wanted to unzip it on my pc.  The problem was that I
kept getting these errors because the files in the zip had illegal
characters in their names.  I finally fixed things by using a diskzapper
to change the filenames to something dos could handle.

--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
Newsgroups: alt.education.disabled
From: nmcb@dante.nmsu.edu (Yolanda Thompson)
Subject: Re: Classes involving the disabled
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:38:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.012628.345@colorado.edu> cdash@moet.cs.colorado.edu (Charles Shub) writes:
>In almost a quarter century of teaching, I've had my share of students
>with handicapping conditions, ranging from difficulties in hearing or 
>seeing to difficulties in mobility or ability to use equipment to
>learning disabilities to psychologocial considerations.  Every time
>a person with a disability is in one of my classes, I worry if I am
>doing all I could to provide a rich environment for that student.
>Some examples...
>1)  Obviously, I can't stop talking when a hearing impaired student
>    takes a course, but how best to help that student pick up the
>    nuances that are routinely gotten by the hearing students.
>2)  I can't stop using the blackboard when I have a visually
>    handicapped student, but how do I get things involving diagrams
>    and graphs across without being unfair to this student.
>3)  Physical handicaps can normally be compensated for by allowing
>    extra time, but where does the fairness line get drawn?
>4)  Psychological issues can be dealt with via alternative examination
>    formats, but again how to assure equitable treatment.
>     
>Any wisdom out there? 
>-- 
>
>charlie shub  cdash@cs.Colorado.EDU       -or-         (719) 593-3492     
>on leave at the University of Iowa  cdash@cs.uiowa.edu (319) 335-0739

I guess, that first of all it would be correct to addres the correct
terminology for disabled individuals.
  Since the passage of The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) the
correct terminology is "Persons with disabilities."
  This emphasizes the fact that the individual is a individual first
and foremost, and yeah, they just happen to be disabled.
  Fairness--to whom?  Fairness is relative, and therefore is difficult
to address in a simple response.  If you're concerned about fairness
to the students with disabilities in your class, then you are already
disabling that student with your attitude of difference.  These are
people who on a daily basis function in a "nondisabled" world.  They
function in a sighted world if blind.  They function in a hearing
world if deaf.  And, they deal with architectural barriers and
succeed.  Therefore, giving them what you offer every other student in
your class is "fair."
  If your question of fairness addresses the nondisabled students in
your class, then where do you feel you might be unfair to them?

  A blind student knows how to get the notes off of the blackboard.
The deaf student knows how to obtain new terminology.  The largest
barrier in today's society is the "social handicap."  The attitudes
that concentrate on the differences rather than the sameness.

  Anyone interested in bouncing this around more can email me
directly.
  I'm always open, always interested, and always willing to talk with
people about education and persons with disabilities.
Newsgroups: alt.education.disabled
From: yanko@inf.utfsm.cl (Sebastian Herrera O.)
Subject: hello...
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:17:48 GMT
Organization: Informatika UTFSM
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]


              Is there anybody in here...?

  Seems I'm a bit late..

 I want to read something, how can I get past talk-abouts?

 I'm learning to use a Sun, but it's not quite appealing yet,
 nor easy, nor productive. I would prefer to use good old
 bitnet on a really-old VM..


Sebastian Herrera////////////-(*)-/////////////yanko@inf.utfsm.cl
estudiante ingenieria informatika////////////i5taska@utfsm.bitnet
Valparaiso, Chile  (--> that's in America del Sur!)
Newsgroups: alt.education.bangkok.cmc
From: anderson@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terry)
Subject: Bangkok Project transcripts
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 18:10:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

Transcripts of the Bangkok Project.

For those interested in either the process or the actual interactions that made
up the Bangkok project, the following files have been made available for
anonymous FTP access. These files are the actual transcipts of the 6
confernces, plus the transcripts of the group that organized the program over
the past year.

We think the project demonstrated that this media can be used for professional
development on a global scale. The transcripts should be useful for others
attempting to organize similar projects that span network and national
boundaries.

Enjoy!
Terry Anderson
anderson@acs.ucalgary.ca


List of Transcript Files Documenting the Bangkok Project 

Topic Name                   # of items      Length       File Name            
                                             (Bytes)         
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction and Overview           4              21273     introduction
Computer Mediated communications   61             107387     cmc.trans
Database use in DE                 26              41979     database.trans
Strategic Planning in DE           41              85621     planning.trans
Research Issues                    50              99221     research.trans
Student Support                    10              31134     support.trans
Theory and Philosophy              50             224176     theory.trans
Organization of the Bangkok Project 121           265904     organization.trans


These files are available for anonymous ftp from the ftp site at
the University of Calgary.
Site Name:                   FTP.ACS.UCALGARY.CA
Directory:                   /pub/private_group_info/icde/

To access -  ftp to the above site; login as "anonymous"; use your
       EMAIL address as the password; cd to the above directory and
       get the file(s) of interest. For more detailed FTP
       instructions consult any introductory text covering InterNet
       services.


-- 
Terry Anderson
Network Coordinator, Bangkok Project
Dept. of Educational Psychology                     Ph 403-284-0922
University of Calgary                              Fax 403-289-4471
From: anderson@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terry)
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
Subject: Transcripts of the Bangkok Project
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:07:03 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

Transcripts of the Bangkok Project.

For those interested in either the process or the actual interactions that made
up the Bangkok project, the following files have been made available for
anonymous FTP access. These files are the actual transcipts of the 6
conferences, plus the transcripts of the group that organized the program over
the past year.

We think the project demonstrated that this media can be used for professional
development on a global scale. The transcripts should be useful for others
attempting to organize similar projects that span network and national
boundaries.

Enjoy!
Terry Anderson


List of Transcript Files Documenting the Bangkok Project 

Topic Name                   # of items      Length       File Name            
                                             (Bytes)         
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction and Overview           4              21273     introduction
Computer Mediated communications   61             107387     cmc.trans
Database use in DE                 26              41979     database.trans
Strategic Planning in DE           41              85621     planning.trans
Research Issues                    50              99221     research.trans
Student Support                    10              31134     support.trans
Theory and Philosophy              50             224176     theory.trans
Organization of the Bangkok Project 121           265904     organization.trans


These files are available for anonymous ftp from the ftp site at
the University of Calgary.
Site Name:                   FTP.ACS.UCALGARY.CA
Directory:                   /pub/private_group_info/icde/

To access -  ftp to the above site; login as "anonymous"; use your
       EMAIL address as the password; cd to the above directory and
       get the file(s) of interest. For more detailed FTP
       instructions consult any introductory text covering InterNet
       services.

-- 
Terry Anderson
Network Coordinator, Bangkok Project
Dept. of Educational Psychology                     Ph 403-284-0922
University of Calgary                              Fax 403-289-4471    
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
From: lexy@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
Subject: Marketing Techniques for Distance Education Programs
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:29:48 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I would like to start a dialogue with those who would like to 
discuss marketing techniques for distance education programs. This
may be of particular interest to practitioners who would like to
discuss the latest in marketing trends in distance education 
institutions.

Interested parties may either post their responses or contact
me directly at lexy@ac.dal.ca

Sincerely,
Craig Merriam
Manager of Distance Education Programs
The Centre for Public Management
Dalhousie University
Newsgroups: alt.education.distance
From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
Subject: Re: Help needed about the tilemodule concept please
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:36:23 EST

As I asked once before, with no response...
Why are you calling these things, tiles instead of courses?
as in CourseModule, etc...
And as someone else broughts, why bother playing with little bits of color
that no-one who has uses for their time cares about?
The concept of a 'numbering scheme' to include only a few hours is 
a good one,especially when extended to build up actual courses and
cousrs of study, but why saddle it with all this techno-geek stuff?


Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom