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From: mikeraz@techbook.com (Michael Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:31:21 GMT
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

jlee@smylex.UUCP (Jeff Lee) writes:
>> are awakened by a rather randy female (assuming you are male, please

>Or, in a similar situation after programming a Mac, using mental pull-down 
>menus to control one's responses to said randy female (or whatever)...

I always thought it was to the Macs detriment that pull-down menus prevailed.
Pop Up menus seem to be much more appropriate in many situaitons.


 Michael Rasmussen  mikeraz@techbook.com 
	"If you keep trying you get better." - JB
	"It's not a problem unless it's chronic." - LC
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: jkonrath@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath)
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: No organization. No life. Just emacs.
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:13:18

In article <1992Apr12.212156.19405@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> mikef@bidochon.lerc.nasa.gov (Mike J. Fuller) writes:


   A friend asks you what you're going to do later and you answer:

   cd $HOME
   mkbed
   sleep 28800


or, ever wonder why you cant just go

 sleep 28800&

and go on with your hacking?

wow, if that would work i could just fork(breakfast); fork(lunch); fork(dinner)
and use system(); to take care of, um, other business....

-jon
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Virus Jokes
From: geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 23:27:25   M
Organization: The Equinox Network CHCH NZ (Node SATORI)

Brian Ridgely <ridgelyb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:

> Wanted: Virus Jokes

Religion is a computer virus for organic computers.

HHOS.

| Geoff - Sysop Equinox (equinox.gen.nz) +64 (3) 3854406 (4 Lines)
| Email:  geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: Patron saint of computers
Organization: Milo's Meadow
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:33:35 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.161316.14076@cl.cam.ac.uk> jlb10@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Beaven) writes:
>St Stephen.
>(How did he die?)
>John

Like, I think he got, uhhh, too stoned or, uh, something, er, what were we
talking about, anyway?

Adam
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:18:29 -0400 
From: "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: You known you've been in hack mode too long

I didn't sleep much last night.  I've been doing a lot of Epsilon hacking,
and the problem was that every time I fell asleep, 'point' began to get
close to 'mark', and I was terrified of the consequences.  That is why
I am reading a.f.c. tonight.
                            joe

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Computer-related auto license tags
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:58:42 GMT

John Gustin, ex-Prime, had and probably still has the Massachusetts plate
"SIGH".
-- 
David Brooks				dbrooks@osf.org
Systems Engineering, OSF		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
From: edwardy@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Edward Yagi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: How to get rich...
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:08:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr16.170858.26312
Organization: University of Hawaii

>"Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>My housemate was grumping around her desk a few weeks ago, and complained
>to me "Why can't you make a 'grep' that searches my desk!"
>
>.....
>                            joe
I find myself having the urge to 'grep' textbooks when looking up a
certain subject many-a-times.. damn primitive paper-things.

							aloha.
							edman
From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: WAR GAMES II, or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:54:31 GMT

In <1992Apr14.061838.27862@sq.sq.com> Mark Brader wrote:
> Personally, I'm waiting for the sequel -- where Eric reveals the *fourth*
> name on the bingo-card report.  Evidently this one led into such senstitive
> areas that it had to be hushed up!

Sorry, the true explanation is much more mundane.  The number above the fourth
name had been disconnected.
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
Subject: Re: too involved...
Reply-To: scs@adam.mit.edu
Organization: none, at the moment
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:23:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.014714.25822@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (Michael L Begley) writes:
> Don't you hate when you get too involved in your hacking
> that you forget that you started cooking spaghetti 3 hours ago?

Yes, especially when lousy computer technology exacerbates the
problem.

One evening I stumped downstairs and threw a (previously) baked
potato into the microwave oven to reheat for, oh, two minutes.

A second or two later (the microwave's digital display must now
have read something like 1:57) I realized that three minutes
would be better, so I pressed

	STOP  TIME  3  0  0  START

and tramped back upstairs to fix that last bug.

What I haven't mentioned is that this particular microwave had
one of the world's worst user interfaces.  (I once seriously
considered trying to reprogram it, but the microcontroller inside
wasn't one I recognized.)  It had no "digit entry flag;" typing
digits *always* scrolled whatever was already in the display to
the left (within its 99:99 "field width").

So, after typing 3 0 0 to request three minutes, the display
must actually have read 73:00 (which I failed to notice).

Some time later, I smelled something mildly burnt, and wondered
if one of my neighbors was popping popcorn or something.

A few minutes after that, I bolted back downstairs to find a
kitchen full of smoke.

I can now tell you that 45 minutes on "high" of a 500W microwave
is not sufficient to cause a medium-sized potato to actually
burst into flames, but it was reduced to an oily black cinder,
and the Tupperware (tm) container was melted and blackened...

I don't have that microwave any more; I gave it away (perhaps
irresponsibly)...

[Followups to rec.food.cooking, I suppose :-) .
Or maybe comp.risks .]

					Steve Summit
					scs@adam.mit.edu
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Assembler Formats
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:22:00 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <35088@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke) writes:
> One of my favorite assemblers of all time was the DEC-10
> (and probably 6 and 20) ...

I remember picking up a PDP-10 assembler manual while rummaging in a neglected
corner of the Computer Science department once.

The main thing that sticks in my mind was the fact that the "JUMP" instruction
was a no-op...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
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N w im r ved m tating s gnature virus with built-in spelling checker.
From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:24:25 GMT
Distribution: usa

From article <15APR199209390849@rover.uchicago.edu>,
by frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger):
> 
> 	Wierdiest I had to deal with was using an older GE terminet,
> 	zeros were not slashed, but capital 'O's had a cut in the top and
> 	bottom so they looked kind of like this... ()

The GE Terminet had a rubber band with steel print fingers, and there was
one spare print finger that never printed.  The default configuration of
the print band had the round O shape for zero, the broken () shape for
capital oh, and the slashed O shape for the unused slot.  As soon as
I discovered this, I took a pair of needle-nosed pliers and rearranged the
print band to put the slashed O on zero, the round O on capital oh, and
the broken () on the unused slot.  All the other users of that Terminet
agreed that what I'd done was a great improvement.

I still remember the strange sound of a GE Terminet printer, sort of like
a creaking old spring-mounted porch swing.
						Doug Jones
						jones@cs.uiowa.edu
From: jsc@athena.mit.edu (Jin S. Choi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:51:27 GMT
	<1992Apr12.022417.406@ee.rochester.edu>
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Apr12.022417.406@ee.rochester.edu>
weisberg@ee.rochester.edu (Jeff Weisberg) writes:

   In article <JKONRATH.92Apr11004326@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
   jkonrath@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes: /* /*
   your SO asks you where you want to eat on a friday night and you want
   to /* cat yellowpages | grep pizza | grep carryout | more

   ^more^less

On the MIT Media Lab computers (I think; it's one of the Labs around
here), there's a program called xpizza. I've never actually seen it, but
supposedly it prompts you for what kind of pizza you'd like to have and
other various info, and then sends a fax to a 24 hour delivery pizza
place with the order, along with information on how to get to your
office and what door to come in depending on what time of day it is.
--
Jin Choi
jsc@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Comments (was: What's wrong with Computer Science)
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 17:27:51 GMT

In article <1922@news.duke.edu> magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>In article <EGDORF.92Mar14215417@zaphod.lanl.gov> egdorf@zaphod.lanl.gov (Skip Egdorf) writes:
>> Rather the comments convey to me
>>something of the state of mind of the author when the stuff was
>>written.
>>					Skip Egdorf
>>					hwe@lanl.gov
>
>/*oh my god pink walruses are crawling all over the array! they're
>coming out of the screen.... they say they want to dance...*/
>
>
>hmmm i guess skip is right; what could one guess about the state of mind of
>this intrepid hacker?

Oh No!  It's a case of opusitis, where the programmer's brain has
turned into that of a penguin who has sniffed too many dandelions!


>jem.
>"just say no. coding and dropping don't mix." :)

Nonono.... coding and pickled herring don't mix.  Honest.
-- 
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The Denim Adept     hshubs@BYTECOSY     but I do agree with them.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
From: spam@iastate.edu (Michael L Begley)
Subject: Re: Help me upgrade my computer
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:46:37 GMT

In article <JKONRATH.92Apr15194759@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> jkonrath@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes:
>
>some other ideas for the creative on what to do with a pc:

Once upon a time I had a desperate need for a portable computer, and no money.
I didn't need to do work on a bus or anything; I just needed to move it between
several places, so I didn't need battery power or anything like that.  And I
always used the keyboards & monitors already present at whatever site I was at.

So I mounted all the componants inside one of those wooden crates they ship
coke bottles in.  It was perfectly sized (18"x12"x4.5"), so it held the mother
board, the power supply, all the cards the floppy disk & the hard drive, and
screwed a screen-door handle on one of the ends.  I also cut all the apropriate
holes for power supply, keyboard connector, fan, etc.  I'm sure the thing gave
off gallons of rf interference, but I wasn't concerned.  

When I was done it weighed under 6 lbs and I could carry it the mile between
work & home.

Yes, I recieved plenty of abuse from my coworkers about it.

-m
From: snail@lsl.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Computers
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:16:31 GMT
Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge

In article <xr3t-h-@rpi.edu>, weisee@aix.rpi.edu (Elizabeth A. Weise) writes:
> The overall topic here was the shuttle's internal guidance and control
> machines, where reliability is important. If they're running Windows,
> I bet they're not too concerned about reliability. (smirk)

I forgot.. on the subject of reliability, how about the wonderful VIPER chip
that is the only chip ever designed from FORMAL METHODS! Hey wow no interrupts
because they were thought to be totally un-testable using formal methods. And
what if this chip gets an error (an you're 50000ft up in your Advanced European
Fighter Aircraft)? It shuts down. Wonderful eh? And you wonder why that isn't
in the Space Shuttle (Houston control? control? we er... seem to be leaving
orbit right now, something about a bad instruction on the screen, Hello
Houston? This is Challenger, are we reading you......)
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From: silk@pineapple.ucsb.edu (Mencher;Kenneth;S;;;COMS;Undergraduate;920630;;;8-402525-19906-7;1000)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Patron saint of programmers?
Date: 11 Apr 92 04:26:45 GMT

ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes:

>In article <1992Apr5.224954.21480@cs.uow.edu.au> g8801935@cs.uow.edu.au (The Jester) writes:
>}The Warlock (at Large, enraged....) has a monastic sect of engineers,
>}it has kind of Murphy deity. I can't remember the author off hand, I 
>}will find out if anyone wants me to.

>Saint Vidicon, if I'm not mistaken...his icon is a small screwdriver.



Saint Vidicon of Cathode!  Intercede with him on our behalf, we beseech
thee!  protect us from Murphy's curse!

<a sign i have seen hanging over various computer terminals around
campus...>

and yes, his icon is a golden screwdriver in the left breast pocket of the
monk's robe.

>Lance
>-- 
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From: dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.unix.wizards,cct.ccc,cct.cuhug,comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: me vs. vi survey *please read*
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:27:51 GMT
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.

In <CKD.92Mar29175443@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:

>Yeah?  So what?  I happen to know for a fact that Mitch Kapor, who wrote
>Lotus 1-2-3...

Are you sure about this?  I have read that Mitch Kapor helped design
Lotus 1-2-3, but Jonathan Sachs wrote it.
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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Easter Egg FAQ list
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:27:56 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <1992Apr13.084341.3452@pollux.lu.se>, magnus@thep (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>So, to dig a little deeper into the folklorish aspects of this:
>
>Has anybody got any idea why the "magic" username is "joshua!!"? 
>And who is professor Falken?

This is lifted directly from a movie several years ago (84?)
called "War Games".  (Goofy, but kinda fun, too).

-- 
Dave Schaumann		dave@cs.arizona.edu

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From: m05751@hypatia.data.st.statoil.no (Bjorn Larsen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why Grey? Are computer unhappy objects?
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:19:04 GMT
	<1992Apr6.195838.14243@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	<1992Apr10.190549.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
	<1992Apr11.043224.25604@thoth.rent.com>
Reply-To: bjla@statoil.no
Organization: Statoil, Norway

In article <1992Apr11.043224.25604@thoth.rent.com> azog@thoth.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:

   You know, Ive been following this thread for some time now, but so far
   I havent seen a explanation as to _why_ computers are mostly grey?


Perhaps because programmers/admins/users want to be able to come up
with their own color schemes for the computer screen, without having
to worry about getting it to fit in with the computer's own color?

bjorn

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From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
Subject: Question about PDP 11/70
Organization: Einoed Unix & Netzwerke, Berlin (FRG)
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 11:41:24 GMT

Perhaps i have the possibility to get an old PDP/11 Professional (should be
a 11/70 with a desktop case similar to the DecMate? PC and a screen
which looks like a VT220).

When you boot up the cpu a diagnose screen tells you (by showing a 
graphic of the inside of the cpu box) that the last card is defective.
Do you know what this card does? Also there is a MAU connector on the
backplate of the cpu box. Can i connect a transceiver to this to get
the PDP in our Ethernet? (What protocol is used? DecNet probably...)

thanks,
Adrian
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From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Date: 16 Apr 92 09:52:04 GMT
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany

In article <45437@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> afc@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Greg Flint) writes:
>In April 1971, my output printed on Control Data Corp model 501 printers used
>"fat" oh's and slender zero's.  On a Teletype [KSR Model 33 ?] output [yellow
>woodpulp paper off a roll] from that era, I see no difference in the example
>"10 FORMAT (...."

The ASR-33 on my PDP-11 of the same vintage had slashed 0s. They
obviously made different print heads for different manufacturers.

>I first encountered slashed zero's in the PLATO IV manual on the TUTOR
>language published in 1974.  [I was a guinea pig -- we didn't call them
>beta tester's back then -- for the program.]

I'm surprised that nobody has come up with the fact that ham radio
people used to slash 0's at least from the early 60s. I got into
trouble at school (in the 60's) because I kept slashing my 0s, which
the maths teacher thought incorrect.

In general, it seems that both conventions have existed in splendid
isolation for quite some time. Can anybody remember further back than
the mid-60s?
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mel: Fact or Fiction?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:45:47 GMT

In article <1g4zD0#5Y7TMc91F3txBBKKvL5OsXmP=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In <1992Apr11.003258.19395@SSD.intel.com> Paul Pierce wrote:
>> I have a Litton 1230.

>I have a dim memory of someone (perhaps Ed Nather) telling me of a connection
>between Royal-McBee and Litton Industries.  It may be that the Litton 1230
>is the same machine with a different faceplate, or a close relative.

Sounds like this machine is a dead cert for the Computer Folklore Museum.

Now we just need a Computer Folklore Museum.

A copy of the blackjack program listing would help...
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From: g8801935@cs.uow.edu.au (The Jester)
Subject: Re: You kyou've been in hack mode too long ...
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:39:41 GMT

u8802356@cs.uow.edu.au (Elephant) writes:

>mwt@bcm.tmc.edu (Man Wei Tam) writes:

>>.... you start dreaming code

>or, just to get the thread running again ...
>You start dreaming in Tetris (or whatever game has you fancy at the
>moment). And start trying to rearrange the furniture so
>it all fits neatly against one wall
>:-)

Ha piled against one wall is easy, how about stacked up against one wall
so that it supports the roof, and so any part of it can be removed and
utilised without damaging the supporting pile. What a nightmare.

Anyway, you know you've been in hack mode too long when the writing on amber
screens starts to look blue.
>Elephant
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